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Telescopes

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a telescope?

a)

A device that makes objects more visible (wyostrza)

b)

A device that makes faraway obcjects seem closer

c)

A device that makes the object's colors more visible

2.

Who was the first person to construct a telescope?

a)

Galileo

b)

Jesus

c)

Newton

d)

Hubble

3.

What's the largest telescope on Earth?

a)

South African Large Telescope

b)

Keck 2

c)

Keck 1

d)

Gran Telescopio Canarias

4.

What telescope made the most discoveries?

a)

Keck 1

b)

The South African Large Telescope

c)

The Hubble Space Telescope

d)

Gran Telescopio Canarias

5.

What are the most famous discoveries by telescopes?

a)

How old is the universe

b)

Discovery of Pluto

c)

Discovery of new Pluto's moons

d)

Discovery of the Earth's moon

6.

What type of telescope is shown?

a)

Newtonian telescope

b)

Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes

c)

Refracting telescope

7.

What type of telescope is shown?

a)

Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes

b)

Newtonian telescope

c)

Refracting telescope

8.

What type of telescope is shown

a)

Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes

b)

Newtonian telescope

c)

Refracting telescope

9.

What is spherical aberration?

a)

color distortion that creates an outline of unwanted color along the edges of objects

b)

 blurriness at the edge of an image

10.

What is it that we see when we look into the telescope?

a)

mirror

b)

lens

c)

reflection

d)

light

11.

What was the greatest century of the telescope improvement? Telescopes became much bigger, more precise, versatile and dozens of them were launched into space at that time.

a)

21th century

b)

20th century

c)

19th century

d)

17th century

12.

What was the first type of telescope to be invented

a)

Newtonian telescope

b)

Refracting Telescope

c)

Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope

13.

What is chromatic aberration?

a)

color distortion that creates an outline of unwanted color along the edges of objects

b)

 blurriness at the edge of an image