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WorksheetsYear 7 Space
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
The objects seen in the up in the night sky are know as:
White Dots
Celestial Objects
Space Freckles
UFO's
The scientists who study celestial objects are known as...
Astrologers
Astronomers
Astroturf
Celestial Scientists
Not including the sun... the brightest object in the night sky is...
Mercury
Venus
The Moon
Mars
This pictures shows..
The motion of the planets due to the rotation of the Earth
The motion of the stars due to the revolution of Earth around the Sun
The stars revolving around the pole star due to the rotation of the Earth
Some spinning their camera while taking a photo at night time.
This picture shows...
The "retrograde" motion of a planet over many weeks
The motion of a comet
A shooting star
A UFO
The first four planets are known as the...
Tertiary Planets
Tiny Planets
Terrestrial Planets
Extraterrestrial Planets
The last four planets in our solar system are known as...
Gas Giants
Gas Guzzlers
Planetoidal Monoliths
Mega-Planets
A small rock in space is called a
Meteoroid
Meteor
Meteorite
Meter
A shooting star is visible because of the...
Enormous heat generated by meteors hitting the Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds
Evaporation of water attached to frozen meteors
Meteors are often made of a white glowing material
Magic fairy dust that they emit
Our solar system contains two asteroid belts, but the main one is located between
Mercury and Venus
Earth and Mars
Mars and Jupiter
Neptune and Pluto
Comets follow ___________ paths and appear with a long shining tail in the sky due to ________________________________
circular ... the combustion of flammable material as they fly near the sun
circular ... the evaporation of ice as they fly near the sun
elliptical... the combustion of flammable material as they fly near the sun
elliptical ... the evaporation of ice as they fly near the sun
This picture shows...
Impact craters on the Sun
Impact craters on the Moon
Impact craters on the Earth
Abstract art
Which of the following statements is NOT one of the assumptions of the "geocentric model" of the solar system?
The Earth was at the center of the solar system
The Earth was stationary
The planets moved around the Earth in epicycles
The Earth revolved around the sun
