ST 5 PHYSICAL SCIENCE

What is the shape of the Earth as described by modern astronomy?

• ellipsoid

• hyperboloid

• oblate spheroid

• oblate paraloid

Which of the following ancient Greek philosophers computed for the circumference of the Earth?

• Anaxagoras

• Pythagoras

• Eratosthenes

• Aristotle

Any theory of the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all.

• Geocentrism

• Heliocentrism

• Solstice

• Eclipse

Either of the two times in the year, the summer, and the winter, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.

• Geocentrism

• Heliocentrism

• Solstice

• Eclipse

Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations used a primitive version of a sundial, called ___________, in systematically observing the motion of the sun.

• gnocchi

• gnomon

• pelekinon

• pelekanos

Which of the following is the nearest planet from the Sun?

• Earth

• Mars

• Mercury

• Venus

When the sunlit side of the Moon seen from the earth gets bigger, we say it is __________ .

• full

• new

• waning

• waxing

Johannes Kepler is best known for the:

• Invention of the first telescope

• Laws of planetary motion

• Principle of stellar parallax

• Sun-centered Universe

Who claimed that heavy and light objects drop in the same way?

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

What is true about Aristotle’s theory of motion?

• Objects fall faster in air than water.

• The fall of heavy object toward the center of the earth is a violent motion.

• The increase in the rate of motion is inversely proportional to the weight of the object.

• The object will continue to move even without an external force applied.