F3 CHAPTER 10 SPACE EXPLORATION

Who is the first person who suggest that the Sun is at the centre of the Solar System?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Johannes Kepler

• Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

Ptolemy's geocentric model is based on

• the Sun at the centre of the Solar System

• the Earth at the centre of the Solar System

• the Earth orbiting the Moon

• the Sun orbiting the Moon

Which astronomer proposed that all planets orbit around the Sun in elliptical orbit?

• Neil Armstrong

• Johannes Kepler

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

Which of the following planets are not listed in the Heliocentric Model?

I: Neptune

II: Uranus

III: Jupiter

IV: Mars

• I and II

• III and IV

• II and III

• I and IV

Who built and proved the moon Solar System model?

I: Johannes Kepler

II: Stephen Hawking

III: Albert Einstein

IV: Sir Isaac Newton

• I and II

• III and IV

• II and III

• I and IV

Who is the first human to set foot on the Moon?

• Neil Armstrong

• Ptolemy

• Yuri Gagarin

• Dato' Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha

Which of the following the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Earth?

• US Voyager I

• USSR Vostok I

• US Apollo 11

• MEASAT-I

A satellite can be sent to the outer space by

• a rocket

• a space probe

• a Jet fighter

• an aeroplane

What is invention X?

• Kaleidoscope

• Endoscope

• Microscope

• Telescope

Which of the following can travel further into and out of the Solar System?

• Rocket

• Space probe

• Satellite

• Space shuttle