Q.1 What is the Pole Star also known as?

a) North Light

b) Saptarishi

c) Ursa Major

d) Planetai

Answer: b) Saptarishi

Q.2 Which celestial bodies are lit by the light of stars and are called “wanderers”?

a) Satellites

b) Constellations

c) Planets

d) Stars

Answer: c) Planets

Q.3 What provides heat and light to the Earth?

a) The Moon

b) Other planets

c) The Pole Star

d) The Sun

Answer: d) The Sun

Q.4 How many stars are there in the Saptarishi constellation?

a) Five

b) Six

c) Seven

d) Eight

Answer: c) Seven

Q.5 Which celestial body is a companion of the Earth and moves around it?

a) Moon

b) Sun

c) Pole Star

d) Ursa Major

Answer: a) Moon

Q.6 What does the word “planet” mean in Greek?

a) Bright objects

b) Wanderers

c) Constellations

d) Satellites

Answer: b) Wanderers

Q.7 How does the appearance of the Earth change when viewed from a great distance, such as the moon?

a) It appears smaller and dimmer.

b) It appears to be a bright star.

c) It becomes invisible.

d) It looks like the Sun.

Answer: b) It appears to be a bright star.

Q.8 What do you see in the night sky on a Full moon night or Poornima?

a) No moon at all

b) A crescent moon

c) The full moon

d) A new moon

Answer: c) The full moon

Q.9 What are the celestial bodies that move around the sun in the solar system?

a) Planets

b) Stars

c) Comets

d) Asteroids

Answer: a) Planets

Q.10 How many planets are there in our solar system?

a) 7

b) 9

c) 8

d) 10

Answer: c) 8

Questions (11 to 20)

Q.11 Which planet is considered Earth’s twin due to its similar size and shape?

a) Venus

b) Mars

c) Mercury

d) Jupiter

Answer: a) Venus

Q.12 What is the distance between the Earth and the Sun?

a) 93 million miles

b) 150 million kilometers

c) 1 million kilometers

d) 365 million miles

Answer: b) 150 million kilometers

Q.13 How many moons does Earth have?

a) 0

b) 1

c) 2

d) 3

Answer: b) 1

Q.14 What is the shape of the Earth described as?

a) Oval

b) Sphere

c) Geoid

d) Cube

Answer: c) Geoid

Q.15 Which celestial body is considered a “dwarf planet” as of August 2006?

a) Venus

b) Earth

c) Mars

d) Pluto

Answer: d) Pluto

Q.16 What is the name of the only satellite of Earth?

a) Titan

b) Luna

c) Mars

d) Phobos

Answer: b) Luna (the Moon)

Q.17 What is the term for small pieces of rocks that move around the Sun?

a) Satellites

b) Asteroids

c) Meteoroids

d) Comets

Answer: c) Meteoroids

Q.18 What is the cluster of millions of stars that includes our solar system called?

a) The Milky Way galaxy

b) The Solar System galaxy

c) The Universe galaxy

d) The Starry galaxy

Answer: a) The Milky Way galaxy

Q.19 What is a globe?

a) A flattened model of the Earth

b) A pocket-sized map

c) A true model of the Earth

d) An imaginary line on the Earth’s surface

Answer: c) A true model of the Earth

Q.20 What is the purpose of the needle fixed through a globe?

a) To help with inflation

b) To make the globe easy to carry

c) To indicate the axis of rotation

d) To show the equator

Answer: c) To indicate the axis of rotation

Questions (21 to 30)

Q.21 Which imaginary line divides the Earth into two equal halves, Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

a) The Prime Meridian

b) The Equator

c) The Tropic of Cancer

d) The International Date Line

Answer: b) The Equator

Q.22 What is the latitude of the North Pole?

a) 0°

b) 45° N

c) 90° N

d) 180° N

Answer: c) 90° N

Q.23 How are latitudes measured?

a) In kilometers

b) In degrees

c) In miles

d) In meters

Answer: b) In degrees

Q.24 What do we call all parallel circles from the equator up to the poles?

a) Meridians

b) Longitude lines

c) Tropics

d) Parallels of latitudes

Answer: d) Parallels of latitudes

Q.25 If a location is situated 20° north of the equator, what is its latitude?

a) 20° N

b) 20° S

c) 40° N

d) 40° S

Answer: a) 20° N

Q.26 Which letter is commonly used to indicate North or South in latitude values?

a) E

b) W

c) N

d) S

Answer: c) N

Q.27 As you move away from the equator, what happens to the size of the parallels of latitude?

a) They increase in size.

b) They decrease in size.

c) They remain the same size.

d) They become irregular in size.

Answer: b) They decrease in size.

Q.28 What is the significance of the equator in locating places on Earth?

a) It represents the highest latitude.

b) It divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

c) It marks the location of the North Pole.

d) It serves as the Prime Meridian.

Answer: b) It divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Q.29 If a location is situated 45° south of the equator, what is its latitude?

a) 45° S

b) 45° N

c) 135° S

d) 135° N

Answer: a) 45° S

Q.30 What is the shape of the Earth described as in the text?

a) Cube

b) Sphere

c) Oval

d) Geoid

Answer: d) Geoid