WorksheetsCosmos - Episode 3
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
"disaster" comes from the Greek words for...
"bad star"
sickness
bad stuff
bad omen
Every time comets come close to the sun, part of them
freezes
evaporates
condenses
sets on fire
The Oort cloud is a vast swarm of ___ surrounding the sun.
asteroids
stars
planets
comets
Our solar system is ___ from the center of the Milky Way.
30,000 miles
10 minutes
30,000 light-years
50,000 light-years
Who made the first accurate star map of the Southern Hemisphere?
Socrates
Galileo
Plato
Edmond Halley
Nulius in verba is Latin for...
See for yourself
Go do things
Don't question authority
Put up or shut up
Coffeehouses became popular because people became...
hyper
sleepy
equals
festive
The scientist who first calculated how the planets move in ellipses was...
Robert Hooke
Edmond Halley
Isaac Newton
Duck Newton
Edmond Halley invented
The weather map
The diving bell
The laws of gravity
Electricity
Halley's comet appears once every...
year
56 years
76 years
century
What will happen several billion years from now?
Earth will leave the solar system.
The sun will collapse.
The Milky Way will disperse.
The Milky Way will merge with Andromeda
