Space Science

In which position would the Northern Hemisphere be experiencing spring?

• Position

  A

• Position

  B

• Position

  C

• Position

  D

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What phase is illustrated here?

• 1st quarter

• Waning gibbous

• Waxing cresent

• New moon

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Name of the elongated path of Earth as it revolves around the sun

• Orbit

• Tilt

• Spin

• Axis

During which season do we experience the most hours of daylight because of the tilt of the Earth?

• Summer

• Spring

• Fall

• Winter

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Edwin Hubble

• invented the telephone.

• studied gravity.

• is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays.

• showed that there are galaxies beyond our own, the Milky way.

Nadia is writing a science fiction short story for her school newspaper. Her story is about traveling through space to different galaxies. To make her story as realistic as possible, she uses scientific terms. She knows that scientists use the parallax effect in their calculations, but how would she explain parallax in her story? Choose the two that apply.

• It is the apparent motion of an object against distant background stars.

• It is best used to measure the distances to nearby stars.

• It is best used to measure distances to extremely far-away stars.

• It determines distances from only one side of Earth's orbit around the sun

Discovered 4 moons of Jupiter

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

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What is the unit of measurement for astronomical distances?

• Kelvin

• Light years

• Mach

• Parsecs

Nicolaus Copernicus

• thought that the sun was the centre

  of the Solar system, not earth.

• invented electrical batteries.

• is best known for discovering radioactivity

  which is used medically in x-rays.

• studied gravity and developed three laws of motion.

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How do we measure distance in space?

• Light Years

• Measuring tape

• distance in cm