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WorksheetsAstronomy basic
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
_____________________is the science that studies the universe.
Astrology
Astronomy
Unistrology
Unistronomy
True or False?
In the ancient Greeks’ geocentric model, the moon, sun, and the known planets—Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter—orbit Earth.
True
False
True or False?
In the heliocentric model, Earth and the other planets orbit the sun.
True
False
____________ ________________ is the apparent westward motion of the planets with respect to the stars.
Retrograde motion
Westward motion
Southern motion
Northern motion
______________________ concluded that Earth is a planet. He proposed a model of the solar system with the sun at the center.
Galileo
Abraham Lincoln
Copernicus
Newton
True or False
Tycho Brahe designed and built instruments to measure the locations of the heavenly bodies.
True
False
An __________________ ________ is the average distance between Earth and the sun; it is about 150 million kilometers.
Astronomical inverse
Astronomical belief
Astronomical Unit
Astronomical guess
True or False
A revolution is the path an object takes around a point in space.
True
False
Earth revolves around the Sun once every ______ days.
1 day
250 days
7 days
365 days
True or False
Rotation is the spinning of an object on it's axis.
True
False
Earth completes one full rotation every ______ hours.
24 hours
48 hours
36 hours
3 hours
True or False
Perihelion is when the Earth is closest to the sun.
True
False
When the Earth is farthest away from the Sun, we call this _______________.
Aphelion
Aparatus
Ajax
winter
True or False
Precession is the wobbling of Earth on it's axis.
True
False
When the moon is farthest away from the Sun. This called____________.
Apogee
Perigee
Gibbons Wanning
Crescent Wanning
True or False
A Solar eclipse is when the moon moves in line directly between the Earth and the Sun - the moon casts a shadow on the Earth.
True
False
When the Earth moves in a line directly between the moon and the sun. This is called a _________ ___________.
Lunar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
Penumbra
Umbrella
The Moon: the depression produced by a meteorite impact is called a ____________.
Hole
Crater
Debris
Ray
An ancient bed of basaltic lava when asteroids punctured the lunar surface is called ___________.
Maria
Gloria
highlands
Bill
True or False
A meteorite is any portion of a meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface.
True
False
When we talked about how the moon was formed, we decided it was formed by
a large body hitting Mars and splitting off debris that became the moon.
a large body hitting Earth and ejecting debris that became the moon.
Which of the following is NOT present on the moon?
atmosphere
light
gravity
What is the soil-like layer on the moon's surface called.
magma
mud
regolith
basalt
Long valleys or trenches associated with maria are
rays
craters
rilles
In the Geological Time Scale, what is the longest unit of geologic time.
eon
epoch
era
Which of the following lunar features is the oldest?
surface regolith
maria basins
highlands
Which of the following is NOT considered a terrestrial planet?
mercury
neptune
mars
The largest of the terrestrial planets is
Earth
Jupiter
Uranus
According to scientists, the solar system formed from
colliding planetesimals
colliding nebulae
a rotating disk of dust and gases
Which of the following is NOT present on the moon?
light
atmosphere
gravity
