What is the shape of the Earth as described by modern astronomy?

ST 5 PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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11th Grade
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RYAN PADAY
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
ellipsoid
hyperboloid
oblate spheroid
oblate paraloid
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following ancient Greek philosophers computed for the circumference of the Earth?
Anaxagoras
Pythagoras
Eratosthenes
Aristotle
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Any theory of the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all.
Geocentrism
Heliocentrism
Solstice
Eclipse
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Either of the two times in the year, the summer, and the winter, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
Geocentrism
Heliocentrism
Solstice
Eclipse
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations used a primitive version of a sundial, called ___________, in systematically observing the motion of the sun.
gnocchi
gnomon
pelekinon
pelekanos
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following is the nearest planet from the Sun?
Earth
Mars
Mercury
Venus
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When the sunlit side of the Moon seen from the earth gets bigger, we say it is __________ .
full
new
waning
waxing
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