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Chapter 10 - Space Exploration

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What instrument is used to measure the altitude of stars?

a)

Galileo's Telescope

b)

Hubble Space Telescope

c)

Sextant

d)

Spitzer Space Telescope

2.

Who invented the Heliocentric Model?

a)

Copernicus

b)

Ptolemy

c)

Kepler

3.

What does 'centric' means?

a)

Sun

b)

Earth

c)

Centre

d)

Copernicus

4.

When was the National Space Agency (NSA) established?

a)

2011

b)

2005

c)

2003

d)

2002

5.

Which satelite was the first to flyby Neptune?

a)

MEASAT 2

b)

US Pioneer 1

c)

Atlas

d)

US Voyager 2

6.

Who first used rockets in the 11th century?

a)

USA

b)

Zambia

c)

China

d)

Russia

7.

What is Tiung-SAT1?

a)

Malaysia's 1st Microsatelite

b)

Malaysia's 1st Satelite

c)

Malaysia's 1st Rocket

d)

Malaysia's 1st Space Probe

8.

Before Galileo's telescope, what was the first space telescope to be used?

a)

Hubble Space Telescope

b)

Spitzer

c)

Sextant

d)

Redstone

9.

Which one of these are rockets?

a)

Sputnik 1

b)

Hubble

c)

Saturn V

d)

Cassini

10.

Who was the first human to go into space?

a)

J.W.W Birch

b)

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor

c)

Yuri Gagarin

d)

Iman Aiman

11.

When was the modified Heleocentric model used?

a)

1571

b)

168 A.D

c)

1673

d)

1853

12.

What is the technology to take aerial photographs

a)

Space probe

b)

Rocket

c)

Remote sensing

d)

Satellite

13.

In 2017,what space probe was still active orbiting saturn even after 20 years in space?

a)

Cassini

b)

Cassana

c)

Atlas

d)

Spitzer

14.

What is the function of space probe?

a)

Used to measure the altitude of stars

b)

Method of gathering and recording information from a

distance

c)

A space craft that gathers information that sends it back to Earth

d)

Detect radio waves from space

15.

State one example of a phenomenon that occurs that occurs on the surface of the Sun that might destroy the space probe.

a)

Solar Wind

b)

Solar Flare

c)

The Prominence

d)

Sunspots

16.

State the source of energy used by the space probe

a)

Solar energy

b)

Nuclear energy

c)

Electric energy

d)

Biomass energy

17.

Whats the correct statement about Spitzer space telescope

a)

The Spitzer space telescope is located on the surface of the Earth

b)

The Spitzer space telescope observes better than ordinary telescope

c)

The Spitzer space telescope is used to take photographs of Earth surface

d)

The Spitzer space telescope is used as a remote sensing equipment

18.

Whos the first human to step on the Moon

a)

Neil Armstrong

b)

Yuri Gagarin

c)

Sheikh Muzaphar

d)

Syed Saddiq

19.

What's the use of satellite

a)

Gather information on space weather, remote sensing, telecommunication and defence

b)

Sents spaceships, satellites, space probe to space

c)

Gather and send information on distant bodies in space

d)

Agriculture and geology, disaster management and defence

20.

Who built the geocentric model with Earth at the centre and circular orbits

a)

Ptolemy

b)

Copernicus

c)

Kepler