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Cosmos - Episode 3

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"disaster" comes from the Greek words for...

a)

"bad star"

b)

sickness

c)

bad stuff

d)

bad omen

2.

Every time comets come close to the sun, part of them

a)

freezes

b)

evaporates

c)

condenses

d)

sets on fire

3.

The Oort cloud is a vast swarm of ___ surrounding the sun.

a)

asteroids

b)

stars

c)

planets

d)

comets

4.

Our solar system is ___ from the center of the Milky Way.

a)

30,000 miles

b)

10 minutes

c)

30,000 light-years

d)

50,000 light-years

5.

Who made the first accurate star map of the Southern Hemisphere?

a)

Socrates

b)

Galileo

c)

Plato

d)

Edmond Halley

6.

Nulius in verba is Latin for...

a)

See for yourself

b)

Go do things

c)

Don't question authority

d)

Put up or shut up

7.

Coffeehouses became popular because people became...

a)

hyper

b)

sleepy

c)

equals

d)

festive

8.

The scientist who first calculated how the planets move in ellipses was...

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

Edmond Halley

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Duck Newton

9.

Edmond Halley invented

a)

The weather map

b)

The diving bell

c)

The laws of gravity

d)

Electricity

10.

Halley's comet appears once every...

a)

year

b)

56 years

c)

76 years

d)

century

11.

What will happen several billion years from now?

a)

Earth will leave the solar system.

b)

The sun will collapse.

c)

The Milky Way will disperse.

d)

The Milky Way will merge with Andromeda