Picture Identification Quiz

The idea here is to identify the pictures you will see. Each picture has three possible titles under it.
Keep track of your answers and, when you've finished the quiz, click on the answers button to see how
well you did. (HINT: All of these pictures can be found somewhere on the Education and
Outreach web site.) If you want to see a large version of the picture, click on the picture. Good luck!!

 

1Mystery Picture 1

2Mystery Picture 2

3Mystery Picture 3

 

A. Inside a gumball

A. An asteroid named Gaspra

A. A raging forest fire

B. The magnetosphere

B. Mouldy bread

B. The northern aurora

C. The Sun

C. A picture of our Moon

C. The lights of D.C.

 

4Mystery Picture 4

5Mystery Picture 5

6Mystery Picture 6

 

A. An alien implant

A. Earth and Jupiter at night

A. An orange being squeezed

B. The Voyager spacecraft

B. Sector boundaries

B. A solar prominence

C. The IMP 8 spacecraft

C. Voyager's path

C. A bullet hitting a snowcone

 

7Mystery Picture 7

8Mystery Picture 8

9Mystery Picture 9

 

A. A new hat

A. An auroral oval    

A. A comet

B. The magnetosphere

B. How aliens see us    

B. The cameraman's thumb

C. The heliospheric current sheet

C. The heliosphere    

C. A galaxy

 

10Mystery Picture 10

11Mystery Picture 11

12Mystery Picture 12

 

A. An electron-volt

A. The Ulysses spacecraft

A. An unmanned spacecraft

B. Sun hat

B. The IMP 8 spacecraft

B. The magnetosphere

C. A magnetic cloud

C. The Voyager spacecraft

C. The heliosphere

 

13Mystery Picture 13

14Mystery Picture 14

15Mystery Picture 15

 

A. The Aurora Borealis

A. The Van Allen Radiation Belts

A. Crop Circles

B. A galaxy

B. How Earth looks from space

B. A storm on Jupiter

C. A new tie-dye tee shirt

C. Earth's atmosphere

C. A solar quake

 

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