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Science Vocabulary

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a retrograde?

a)

The Daily rotation is opposite Earth's

b)

The Daily rotation is the same as Earth's

c)

There is no rotation

d)

The rotation is upside down

2.

What is an Ellipse?

a)

A square

b)

A flattened circle

c)

a circle

d)

a triangle

3.

What is the Kuiper belt?

a)

A belt for clothes

b)

A round belt

c)

A disk shaped region beyond Earth made up of rocky and icy objects orbiting the sun

d)

A disk shaped region beyond Neptune made up of rocky and icy objects orbiting the sun

4.

What are Astronomical Units?

a)

Units on Saturn

b)

Distance within our solar system

c)

Distances on Earth

5.

What are Space probes?

a)

Spacecraft the fights asteroids

b)

Space craft that takes pictures of what space looks like

c)

Spacecraft that defeats Aliens

d)

Spacecraft that travel beyond Earth's orbit to explore the solar system

6.

What is an Optical telescope?

a)

A telescope for your eyes

b)

A telescope that uses visible light to magnify distant objects

c)

A telescope that uses invisible light to magnify people

7.

What is a Perihelion?

a)

The point of a pencil

b)

The point where Earth is farthest from the Sun

c)

The point when Earth is closest to the Sun

8.

What is the Foci?

a)

The focus of a camera

b)

The two points of a square

c)

The points of a pencil shaving

d)

The two points of an Ellipse also known as the focus

9.

What did the Geocentric Theory believe?

a)

That our solar system was a bunch of rocks

b)

That our solar system orbited Earth

c)

That our solar system orbited the sun

10.

Does a Nonoptical Telescope use invisible radiation to observe distant objects?

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

11.

What are Meteorites?

a)

Meteors that burn up completely on their way to Earth's surface

b)

Aliens

c)

Meteors that are made of ice

12.

Is an Asteroid belt a collection of millions of rocky objects orbiting the sun or icy objects orbiting the sun

a)

Icy Objects Orbiting the sun

b)

Rocky objects orbiting the sun

13.

What does a Refracting Telescope use?

a)

Glass Lens to collect and focus light onto an eyepiece lens

b)

Sugar to make it strong

c)

Goop

d)

Metal lens to collect and focus light onto an eyepiece lens

14.

What does the Heliocentric Theory believe?

a)

Believes that the solar system was blue

b)

Believes that our solar system orbits the Sun

c)

Believes in Aliens

15.

Tue or False: The Reflecting Telescope uses curved and flat mirrors to collect and focus light onto an eyepiece lens

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What is the Aphelion?

a)

The point when Earth is farthest from the Sun

b)

The point of the Earth

c)

A circle