Super Quiz: "A" in science

October 5, 2016 at 1:51 a.m.

  1. Study of the space beyond Earth and of its contents.

  2. Height in space of an object relative to sea level or ground level.

  3. Layer of gases surrounding a star or a planet

  4. Also known as "minor planets"

  5. The opposite to ordinary matter

  6. Chemical element with the symbol Ar

  7. The most distant point from Earth on a satellite's orbit

  8. The point on a planet's elliptical orbit at which it is farthest from the sun

  9. Au is the symbol for gold, but for what is AU an abbreviation

ANSWERS

  1. Astronomy

  2. Altitude

  3. Atmosphere

  4. Asteroids

  5. Antimatter

  6. Argon

  7. Apogee

  8. Aphelion

  9. Astronomical unit (mean distance from the Earth to the Sun; about 93 million miles)

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