WorksheetsScience Vocabulary
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is a retrograde?
The Daily rotation is opposite Earth's
The Daily rotation is the same as Earth's
There is no rotation
The rotation is upside down
What is an Ellipse?
A square
A flattened circle
a circle
a triangle
What is the Kuiper belt?
A belt for clothes
A round belt
A disk shaped region beyond Earth made up of rocky and icy objects orbiting the sun
A disk shaped region beyond Neptune made up of rocky and icy objects orbiting the sun
What are Astronomical Units?
Units on Saturn
Distance within our solar system
Distances on Earth
What are Space probes?
Spacecraft the fights asteroids
Space craft that takes pictures of what space looks like
Spacecraft that defeats Aliens
Spacecraft that travel beyond Earth's orbit to explore the solar system
What is an Optical telescope?
A telescope for your eyes
A telescope that uses visible light to magnify distant objects
A telescope that uses invisible light to magnify people
What is a Perihelion?
The point of a pencil
The point where Earth is farthest from the Sun
The point when Earth is closest to the Sun
What is the Foci?
The focus of a camera
The two points of a square
The points of a pencil shaving
The two points of an Ellipse also known as the focus
What did the Geocentric Theory believe?
That our solar system was a bunch of rocks
That our solar system orbited Earth
That our solar system orbited the sun
Does a Nonoptical Telescope use invisible radiation to observe distant objects?
TRUE
FALSE
What are Meteorites?
Meteors that burn up completely on their way to Earth's surface
Aliens
Meteors that are made of ice
Is an Asteroid belt a collection of millions of rocky objects orbiting the sun or icy objects orbiting the sun
Icy Objects Orbiting the sun
Rocky objects orbiting the sun
What does a Refracting Telescope use?
Glass Lens to collect and focus light onto an eyepiece lens
Sugar to make it strong
Goop
Metal lens to collect and focus light onto an eyepiece lens
What does the Heliocentric Theory believe?
Believes that the solar system was blue
Believes that our solar system orbits the Sun
Believes in Aliens
Tue or False: The Reflecting Telescope uses curved and flat mirrors to collect and focus light onto an eyepiece lens
True
False
What is the Aphelion?
The point when Earth is farthest from the Sun
The point of the Earth
A circle
