Olympiad Test Level 1: Universe- 1 - Class 2 MCQ

Chandrayaan-2 launched from the Sriharikota, India to moon by ISRO.

Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was an American astronaut and his full name was Neil Alden Armstrong.

Our Solar System has eight planets. They are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Earth is called the "Blue Planet" because of the abundant water on its surface.

Morning star is the name given to planet Venus. It's not a star but looks like a star in the morning sky.

The carbon dioxide in Venus' atmosphere traps most of the heat from the Sun. The cloud layers also act as a blanket. Due to this, Venus is hotter than Mercury.

Stars have their own lights.

Day and night are caused due to the Earth rotating on its axis and not it's orbiting around the sun.

The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West direction.

The earth is very small as compared to Sun. The diameter of the Sun is 1,390,000 kms whereas the diameter of the Earth is only 12,742 kms.