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Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the name of the model in which the Earth is at the center of the Solar System?
a)
Geocentric
b)
Heliocentric
c)
Earthcentric
d)
Landcentric
2.
What is the name of the model in which the Sun is in the middle of the Solar System?
a)
Solarcentric
b)
Suncentric
c)
Geocentric
d)
Heliocentric
3.
What two factors combine to keep the planets moving in orbit?
a)
Gravity and Mass
b)
Gravity and Weight
c)
Inertia and Gravity
d)
Inertia and Mass
4.
Where is the asteroid belt located?
a)
Between the Earth and Moon
b)
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
c)
Between Earth and Mars
d)
Between the Sun and Mercury
5.
Who was the first person to use a telescope to observe objects in space?
a)
Ptolemy
b)
Copernicus
c)
Galileo
d)
Kepler
6.
Galileo discovered huge pits on the moon called what?
a)
Moon holes
b)
Dips
c)
Bends
d)
Craters
7.
What shape are the orbits of most comets?
a)
Circle
b)
Square
c)
Ellipse
d)
Triangle
8.
What type of galaxy has spiral arms that are made up of gas, dust, and new stars that have formed?
a)
Spiral
b)
Eliptical
c)
Regular
d)
Irregular
9.
Which term below is a relatively small, rocky body that travels through space?
a)
Asteroid
b)
Meteoroid
c)
Meteorite
d)
Meteor
10.
Which term describes a meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up completely?
a)
Asteroid
b)
Meteoroid
c)
Meteorite
d)
Meteor
11.
Which term describes a bright streak of light that results when a meteoroid burns up in the Earth's atmosphere?
a)
Asteroid
b)
Meteoroid
c)
Meteorite
d)
Meteor
12.
What type of galaxy has a very bright center and very little dust and gas?
a)
Spiral
b)
Elliptical
c)
Regular
d)
Irregular
13.
What type of galaxy doesn't fit into any other class?
a)
Spiral
b)
Elliptical
c)
Regular
d)
Irregular
14.
What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
a)
Spiral
b)
Elliptical
c)
Regular
d)
Irregular
15.
What term describes the theory that states the universe began with a tremendous explosion?
a)
The Loud Crash Theory
b)
The Big Bang Theory
c)
The Tremendous Explosion Theory
d)
The Big Boom Theory
16.
What term describes a small body of ice, rock, and comic dust loosely packed together?
a)
Meteorite
b)
Asteroid
c)
Comet
d)
Meteoroid
17.
Which scientist helped explain that gravity is why all the planets orbit the Sun?
a)
Kepler
b)
Galileo
c)
Copernicus
d)
Newton
18.
Which scientist found that the planets orbit the sun with an elliptical orbit?
a)
Kepler
b)
Newton
c)
Ptolemy
d)
Galileo
19.
Which Greek astronomer was believed for over 1400 years even though his theory of the Solar System was wrong?
a)
Galileo
b)
Copernicus
c)
Newton
d)
Ptolemy
20.
1. What is the spinning of an object in space?
a)
Reflection
b)
Refraction
c)
Revolution
d)
Rotation
21.
1. What is the orbiting of an object in space?
a)
Reflection
b)
Refraction
c)
Revolution
d)
Rotation
22.
1. How many hours is 1 day on Earth?
a)
12
b)
24
c)
36
d)
48
23.
1. The Earth Rotates around _______________.
a)
Jupiter
b)
The Moon
c)
The Sun
d)
Earth's Axis
24.
1. The Earth Revolves around ________________.
a)
Jupiter
b)
The Moon
c)
The Sun
d)
Earth's Axis
25.
How long does the Earth take to revolve around the Sun?
a)
360
b)
365
c)
365.25
d)
366
26.
What Shape is Earth's orbit?
a)
Circular
b)
Elliptical
c)
Rectangular
d)
Spherical
27.
What is the object in space which the Moon revolves?
a)
Earth
b)
Venus
c)
Sun
d)
Polaris
28.
We see only _________ side(s) of the Moon?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
29.
What is the order from New Moon to Full Moon?
a)
Waxing Crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous
b)
Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, 1st Quarter
c)
Waning Crescent, 3rd Quarter, Waning Gibbous
d)
Waning Gibbous, 1st Quarter, Waxing Crescent
30.
Crescent Moon is ________ of the Moon is lit.
a)
Less than one half
b)
More than one half
c)
One Half
d)
No Part
31.
Waxing Moons are ____________________.
a)
Gradual Lighting of the Moon's Surface
b)
Gradual Dimming of the Moon's Surface
c)
When the Moon is not lit at all
d)
When the Moon is Completely lit
32.
A Gibbous Moon is ____________ of the Moon is lit.
a)
Less than one half
b)
More than one half
c)
One half
d)
No part
33.
Waning Moons are ____________________.
a)
Gradual Lighting of the Moon's surface
b)
Gradual Dimming of the Moon's surface
c)
When the Moon is not lit at all
d)
When the Moon is completely lit
34.
What is the term for the Moon Casting a shadow on the Earth?
a)
Lunar Eclipse
b)
Solar Eclipse
c)
Lunar Solstice
d)
Solar Solstice
35.
What is the term for the Earth Casting a shadow on the Moon?
a)
Lunar Eclipse
b)
Solar Eclipse
c)
Lunar Solstice
d)
Solar Solstice
36.
What term is high tides when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are inline.
a)
Winter
b)
Neap
c)
Summer
d)
Spring
37.
What term is high tides when the Sun, Earth, and Moon make a 90 degree angle
a)
Winter
b)
Neap
c)
Summer
d)
Spring
38.
These telescopes use convex lenses to bend and focus light rays to produce an image of objects in space,
a)
Infrared
b)
Radio
c)
Reflector
d)
Refractor
39.
These telescopes use mirrors to focus light rays to produce images of objects in space.
a)
Infrared
b)
Radio
c)
Reflector
d)
Refractor
40.
What Combination creates seasons?
a)
Earth's Rotation and Revolution
b)
Earth's Revolution and Earth's axis
c)
Earth's Rotation and Earth's axis
d)
Earth's Revolution and Moon's Revolution
41.
The Earth's axis is angled at _______ degrees.
a)
180
b)
90
c)
45
d)
23.5
42.
When the Northern Axis is pointing away from the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere is in___________.
a)
Winter
b)
Spring or Fall
c)
Summer
d)
Hunting Season
43.
When there is Equal hours of day and night, the Season is ______________.
a)
Winter
b)
Spring or Fall
c)
Summer
d)
Hunting Season
44.
In the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, during summer time, the sun _______________.
a)
Never fully rises
b)
Never fully sets
c)
Always is high in the sky
d)
keeps the moon Full at all times
45.
The Earth's axis has
a)
Always pointed in the same direction
b)
Not alwasy pointed in the same direction
c)
flipped
d)
changed over 100 degrees
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