universe & solar system section 5 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 6 [IAS (Pre) 2009]

Which one of the following planets has largest number of natural satellites or Moons?

a) Saturn

b) Venus

c) Mars

d) Jupiter

Answer: (a)

Question : 7

The eclipse of Sun occurs

a) when the Sun comes between the Earth and Moon.

b) None of these

c) when the Earth comes between the Sun and Moon.

d) when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth.

Answer: (d)

The eclipse of sun occurs when the moon comes between the sun and the earth.

Question : 8

Consider the following statements:

  1. Since Venus is seen in the East in morning and in the West in evening. It is called ‘Morning star’ as well as ‘Evening star’.
  2. The Earth looks blue when seen from the space due to the presence of large amount of water, hence it is called ‘Blue Planet’.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

a) Both 1 and 2

b) Neither 1 nor 2

c) 2 only

d) 1 only

Answer: (a)

The earth looks blue when seen from the space due to the presence of large amount of water.

Question : 9 [PSC (Pre) 2019]

The distance between Earth and the Sun is

a) 146.6 million km

b) 149.6 million km

c) 142.7 million km

d) 107.7 million km

Answer: (b)

Question : 10 [SSC GL 2014]

Light from the Sun reaches us in nearly

a) 6 min

b) 4 min

c) 2 min

d) 8 min

Answer: (d)

The sun’s light takes about 8 minutes to reach the Earth after it has been emitted from the sun’s surface. The time it takes for light to reach planets in our Solar System varies from about 3 minutes for Mercury, to about 5.3 hours for Pluto.

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