WorksheetsPhysical Science Reviewer
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the shape of the Earth?
Oblate Spheroid
Round
Spherical
Hallow
What is an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination?
Eclipse
Geocentrism
Heliocentrism
Solstice
Who is the first person to propose that the Earth is round and not flat?
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Anaxagoras
Plato
Which of the following statements explains Aristotle's argument about the disappearing ships?
A ship became smaller and then its hull disappeared first before the sail as if it was being enveloped by the water until it completely disappeared
A ship traveling away from an observer should become smaller and smaller until it disappeared
A ship traveling away from an observer should become bigger and bigger until it disappeared
A ship became bigger and then its hull disappeared first before the sail as if it was being enveloped by the water until it completely disappeared
Who was able to explain what causes the phases of the moon?
Anaxagoras
Hipparchus
Aristotle
Pythagoras
What theory of the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all?
Geocentric System
Geologic System
Heliocentric System
Historical System
Who believed that the Sun, the moon, the five known planets and the stars were attached to these spheres which carried the heavenly bodies while they revolved around the stationary Earth?
Eudoxus
Anaxagoras
Ptolemy
Aristarchus
Who is the very first Greek to profess the heliocentric view?
Aristarchus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Eudoxus
Claudio Ptolemy
What do you call the circular motion of a heavenly body around the sun?
Revolution
Rotation
Epicycles
Deferents
Galileo was the inventor of the Telescope.
True
False
What is the branch of science that deals with the study of heavenly bodies?
Astronomy
Astrology
Astrometry
Astrophysics
What is a device that systematically observe the motion of the sun and actually tell the time in a day?
Sundial
Alarm
Calendar
Compass
What do you call the cyclically recurring apparent forms of the moon?
Lunar Phase
Solar Phase
Lunar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
What is the figure of the moon that appears as a curve with pointy ends?
Crescent
Waning
Gibbous
Waxing
Which phase of the moon where in the whole side of the moon is now illuminated to viewers from the earth?
Full moon
Waxing crescent
Waxing gibbous
New moon
What is the action of changing location or position?
Motion
Gravity
Friction
Air resistance
