Astronomy midterm

What shape is the Earth believed to be

• Round

• Oblate spheroid

• flat

• square

Who was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth?

• Galileo

• Mr. Cipriono

• Erothesthnes

• nobody

What motion of the Earth causes the sun to rise in the east and set in the west?

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's tilt

• the moon

• the sun revolving around the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Does the Moon rotate?

• yes

• no

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What conditions are necessary to create Earth’s magnetic field?

• Earth's core must be made of metal, liquid, and it must be moving

• Earths core must be liquid and stationary

• Earth's core must be metal and moving

• Earth has no core

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

NGSS.HS-PS3-5

What term do physicists use to describe the factors at the Earth’s core creating a magnetic field?

• dynamo

• domino

• dynamite

• dominos pizza

How are craters on the moon typically formed?

• Crater are formed from impacts by high speed meteoroids, asteroids, or comets

• Craters were there during its creation as the moon

• the moon is made of cheese so the crater are holes

What government-funded program was dedicated to America's space travel and advancement?

• NASA

• NSSA

• NAS

• the U.S constitution

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

• John Heley

• John Wayne Gacy

• John Glenn

In which year did the first people take steps on the moon?

• 1968

• 1979

• 1970

• 1969