Science 9 Space - Topic # 1 Review Quiz

In a diagram showing the solar system as heliocentric, what is located at the center? Copernicus came up with this model and is the one we live by today.

• Earth

• the sun

• the moon

• Mars

One of the measurements used to locate objects in the sky is compass direction. The compass direction measured clockwise from north is called

• azimuth

• altitude

• zenith

Altitude is measure from the horizon which is at ___ and ___degrees from the north.

• 90 - 270

• 180 - 360

• 270 - 180

• 270 - 360

Early astronomers used an astrolabe to measure the position of stars

• True

• False

Coordinates that may be used to determine distance in space include

• latitude and longitude.

• height and width.

• altitude and azimuth.

• dim and cool.

What is at the middle of a Geocentric system?

• Sun

• Neptune

• Earth

• The Universe

I am a man made structure that took over a 1000 years to build. Word on the street is that construction began in 3000 BC.

• Versailles

• The Louvre

• Buckingham Palace

• Stonehenge

BONUS: Put the planets in order from the sun.

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury

• Earth, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Which direction is missing?

• North

• East

• Northwest

• South

• Northeast

Which lines run on a globe from east to west? 

• longitude lines
• latitude lines
• north pole
• south pole