Physical Science Review

1. “Atomos” is a Greek word of atom, which of the following is the CORRECT meaning of the word Atomos?

•   Single    

•   Indestructible

• Rocks

• Indivisible

2. It refers to the apparent yearly movement of the sun across a background of stars.

                                           

• Diurnal motion

• Terrestrial motion

• Annual motion

• Precision

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3. Which of the following is NOT an evidence that the earth is spherical in shape? 

•   Solar eclipse

• Lunar eclipse

• Photos from spacecraft

• Time zones

4. Places the sun as the centre of the solar system and the planets orbit around it.

• Heliocentric model

• Copernican Model

• Tychonic Model

• Geocentric Model

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5. What do you call to a big computer that early people used to calculate the position of planets and the sun?

• Stars and moons

• Petroglyphs 

• Compass

• Stonehenge

6. 6. Which of the following is the unit used in speed ______?

• seconds  

• meters per second

• kilograms  

• meters  

7. He is the pioneer of the laws of planetary motion namely: Law of Ellipses, Law of Equal Areas, and Law of Harmonies.

• Aristotle

• Johannes Kepler

• Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

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8. The following are observed by Galileo Galilei using an instrument EXCEPT?

• sunspot     

• Ring of Jupiter

• moon of Jupiter

• Stars in Milky Way’s

9. What instrument did Galileo used to observe astronomical phenomenon?

• telescope

• Moon    

• Stars

• stone 

10. An Italian physicist and astronomer who was born Pisa on February 15, 1564.

• Ptolemy

• Galileo Galilei

• Aristotle   

• Copernicus