Space Knowledge Grade 5 NGIS.

Define the Solar system:

• A body in space that orbits a planet.

• A big burning ball of gas.

• There are 8 planets.

• Everything that is withing the influence of the Sun's gravity.

_____ was an Italian physicist.

• Copernicus.

• Aristotle.

• Galileo Galilei.

• Leonardo De Vinci.

I believed that the Earth was a sphere.

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Buzz Lightyear

• Galileo Galilei

An astronomer is:

• A special type of telescope.

• Someone who operates a periscope on a submarine.

• Somebody who studies the stars and space.

• Someone who paints pictures of asteroids.

The Moon is _______

• Earths only natural satellite.

• A planet.

• Not a light source, but reflects the sun's light.

• Both A & C

Which astronomer discovered the Earth was round by studying the round/curved shape of the Earth's shadow on the moon during eclipses?

• Galileo.

• Copernicus.

• Aristotle.

• Neil Armstrong.

Which one of these is not a planet?

• Mars

• Earth

• Pluto

• Venus

We can't see the stars during the day because......

• The stars disappear during the day and only come back at night.

• The sun will make you blind.

• The light from the sun makes it too bright for us to see them.

• The stars are actually fireflies and go to sleep in the daytime.

This astronomer was responsible for improving the "telescope", so that it could observe things in space.

• Galileo Galilei.

• Aristotle.

• Nicolaus Copernicus.

• Albert Einstein.

The ______ is the centre of our solar system.

• Moon

• Earth

• Sun

• International space station