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WorksheetsYear 8 - Our Place in Space 2
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Which two statements describe the South Pole when the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun?
It is summer there
It is winter there
It has 18 hours of daylight
Which two statements describe the North Pole when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun?
It has 24 hours of darkness
It is summer there
It has 24 hours of daylight
Advances in technology have changed our understanding of the Moon.
True
False
Why does the Moon have phases?
The Earth's shadow falls on the Moon differently at different times of the month
The Moon reflects different amounts of sunlight as it orbits the Earth
We see different amounts of the sunlit side of the Moon as it orbits the Earth
The Moon's orbit is not a perfect circle
In which phase of the lunar cycle are the Moon, Earth and Sun in a straight line?
Full moon
First quarter
Third quarter
Original moon
During a new moon phase, the Moon appears dark because:
It loses its ability to reflect light
It lies on the opposite side of the Earth to the Sun so that it falls in our planet's shadow
It lies between the Sun and the Earth so we can only see its shadowed side
In this diagram, which phase of the Moon would we see?
New moon
Full moon
First quarter
Third quarter
In this diagram, which phase of the Moon would we see?
Waning gibbous moon
Waxing gibbous moon
Waning crescent moon
Waxing crescent moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
When the moon is blocked from view
When the sun is blocked from view
When the stars align
What is a solar eclipse?
When the moon is blocked from view because of the sun
When the sun is blocked from view because of the moon
When the stars align
When the sun shifts closer towards earth
A lunar eclipse can only happen on a (a) moon
The umbra is the inner part of the earths shadow where all of the sun's light has been blocked
True
False
The penumbra is the outer part of the earths shadow where some of the suns light has been blocked
True
False
What phase of the moon is shown in the diagram?
New moon
Waxing cresent
Waning cresent
Waxing gibbous
What phase of the moon is shown in the diagram?
Gibbous moon
Crescent moon
Quarter moon
Third quarter moon
What phase of the moon is shown in the diagram?
Quarter moon
Gibbous moon
Crescent moon
New moon
What phase of the moon is shown in the diagram?
Crescent moon
Gibbous moon
Full moon
Quarter moon
It takes Jupiter 9 hours and 56 minutes to rotate on its axis. The length of one day on Jupiter is:
9 hours and 56 minutes
19 hours and 52 minutes
24 hours
9 Earth days
The large group of rocks travelling around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are known as:
A meteor shower
The Asteroid Belt
The Milky Way
Meteorites
What is one difference between our Solar System and the Milky Way?
Earth is in the Solar System but not in the Milky Way
The Milky Way has over 100 billion stars, the Solar System has only one star
The Solar System has no stars in it
What keeps the planets in their orbits around the Sun?
Magnetism
Friction
Sunlight
Gravity
The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun is best described as:
An ellipse
Artificial
A straight line
A perfect circle
What is a satellite?
A star
A piece of rock or ice moving through space in a straight line
An object that orbits around another object
A spacecraft sent to land on a planet or moon
Which planet takes the longest to travel around the Sun?
Neptune
Mercury
Saturn
Earth
Our understanding of the Solar System has been improved by advances in technology.
True
False
The following claims have been made by scientists at different points in history. Which ones are correct?
Planets travel in perfect circles
The Earth rotates on its axis
The Earth is at the centre of the Solar System and does not move
A model that places the Sun at the centre of the Solar System is called:
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Ancient Greeks believed in a geocentric model of the Solar System. In this model, which object was at the centre of the Solar System?
Mars
Earth
The moon
The sun
Johannes Kepler believed in a heliocentric model of the Solar System. He also stated that the shape of each orbit is an ellipse. Which one of these four models represents Kepler's model of the Solar System?
A
B
C
D
How long does one rotation of the Earth take?
12 hours
24 hours
Between 28 and 31 days
365 days
It takes Neptune 16 hours and 6 minutes to rotate once on its axis. A day on Neptune is ________________ a day on Earth.
Shorter than
The same as
Longer than
Why can't the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun explain the seasons?
The two hemispheres experience different seasons at the same times
The shape of Earth's orbit changes from one year to the next
The Earth's orbit is perfectly circular so the heating effect of the Sun is the same throughout the year
The Earth does not orbit the Sun
The tilt of the Earth's axis is the main reason we have seasons because it means that:
The amount of sunlight a location receives varies through the day
The southern hemisphere is always tilted away from the Sun
The amount of sunlight a location receives varies through the year
Some locations never receive any sunlight
A gibbous moon occurs when we can see ____________ of the bright side of the Moon.
More than half
Less than half
All
None
Waning means:
Getting smaller
Getting larger
Orbiting
Rotating
