WorksheetsEarth's Motions
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
If the sun is shining mostly in the southern hemisphere, what season is probably happening in North Carolina?
Spring
Summer
Winter
Fall
When the Earth is at (a) it is the furthest from the Earth.
Galileo died a blind man because
He discovered the sun
He looked at the sun through the telescope he invented
He was splashed with chemicals as a punishment
He looked into the nighttime sky using his telescope
This was the historical astronomer that told us the Earth revolved around the sun in an ellipse.
Aristotle
Newton
Brahe
Kepler
(a) was able to explain why things fall back to the ground if we toss them into the air. (last name only)
This guy was rich and so was his family and he had an observatory made for him so that he could work to prove Copernicus wrong. He also made the first Astrolabe.
Kepler
Brahe
Galileo
Newton
Which of these facts are related to leap year?
The day is actually only 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds long
The moon takes 27 days to rotate
Every 4 yrs we have a February 29th
We have to make up for the time because we call our days 24 hours
The elliptical orbit of the Earth changes every 4 yrs.
The idea of retrograde motion explained why the planets moved around the sky before telescopes.
true
false
On Earth, we experience low tide every ____ hours.
5
6
12
10
A total (a) eclipse happens when the Sun shines on the moon and it casts a shadow onto the Earth.
There is a (a) tide when it's is high tide AND a full moon.
What unit of time on Earth is based on the revolution of the Earth around the sun?
a year
a month
a day
a leap year
When it looks like something moved that is far away from you, but it didn't really move, you did... what's that called?
Perihelion
Apogee
Parallax
Barycenter
What way is our solar system, galaxy and universe moving, according to popular scientific theory?
north to south
east to west
it's expanding
it's contracting
shifts in wavelength, meaning wavelengths in space are getting longer or shorter is known as what?
big bang theory
doppler effect
radiation
a planetesimal
Who studies the origins of universe and how it moves?
a cosmotologist
an astrologist
a cosmologist
a physicist
Which universe theory says that the universe is constantly making more matter and therefore the density of the universe stays constant as it expands?
Nebular Theory
Steady State Theory
Big Bang Theory
(a) are chunks of ice, frozen gases and rocky debris that orbit the sun.
(a) are small pieces of broken planet that orbit the sun. They are larger than a meteor but smaller than a planet
Planets outside of our solar system are called:
dwarf planets
comets
asteroids
extrasolar planets
