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1. Who gave the nebular hypothesis?

A. Immanual Kant

B. Aristotle

C. Chamberlain

D. none of these

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2. When was nebular hypothesis revised?

A. 1796

B. 1900

C. 1950

D. 1920

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3. The sun is surrounded by

A. solar nebula

B. dust material

C. none of them

D. both of them

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4. Who gave the Big Bang theory?

A. Kant

B. Chamberlain

C. Edwin Hubble

D. none of them

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5. When did the event of Big Bang take place?

A. 13.6 million years ago

B. 13.7 billion years ago

C. 4.6 billion years ago

D. 4.6 million years ago

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6. A galaxy start to form a large cloud of hydrogen gas called

A. Planet

B. Earth

C. Moon

D. Nebula

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7. The size of the galaxies range from

A. 80,000 to 150,000

B. 80,000 to 160,000

C. 50,000 to 180,000

D. 60,150,000

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8. The formation of stars have taken place before

A. 5 million years

B. 5 billion years

C. 6 million years

D. 5 to 6 billion years ago

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9. A light year is a measure of

A. distance

B. time

C. both

D. none of them

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10. What is the speed of light?

A. 300,000 km/second

B. 330,000 km/second

C. 30,000 km/second

D. 3.0 km/second

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11. One light year is equal to

A. 9.461 × 1012 km

B. 9.461 × 1011 km

C. 9.4 × 1012 km

D. none of these

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12. The mean distance between the sun and the earth is

A. 149,598,000 km

B. 159,598,000 km

C. 149,498,000 km

D. 149,5,980 km

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13. The distance between the sun and the earth in terms of light years is

A. 8.311 minutes

B. 8.31 minutes

C. 8.310 minutes

D. 8.312 minutes

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14. How many planets are there in the solar system?

A. 9

B. 8

C. 7

D. 11

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15. From which of these our solar system has been formed?

A. nebula

B. dust grains

C. planetesimal

D. none of these

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16. Which one is known as an inner planet?

A. Mercury

B. Venus

C. Earth

D. all of them

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17. Which one is known as an outer planet

A. Jupiter

B. Saturn

C. Neptune

D. all of them

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18. Which one is known as a terrestrial planet?

A. Venus

B. Neptune

C. Pluto

D. none of them

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19. What are Jovian or Gas Giant planets?

A. Inner planets

B. Outer planets

C. none of these

D. both of these

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20. Planets were formed about ……….. years ago

A. 4.6 billion

B. 4.6 million

C. 3.8 billion

D. 3.8 million

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21. Name the natural satellite

A. Venus

B. Mercury

C. Moon

D. Earth

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22. Initially, earth was a thin atmosphere mostly containing

A. Hydrogen

B. Helium

C. both

D. none of them

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23. When were oceans formed

A. 500 million years ago

B. 500 billion years ago

C. 50 million years ago

D. 50 billion years ago

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24. Which one of the following is not related to the formation or modification of the present atmosphere?

A. Solar winds

B. Differentiation

C. Degassing

D. Photosynthesis

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25. Why are the terrestrial planets rocky?

A. These planets are smaller

B. They could not hold the escaping gases

C. Both a and b

D. None of these

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