What is the Milky way

The galaxy that the solar system is part of.

Hubble and Hale are responsible for

Telescopes that change our understanding of the Solar System

an elliptical orbit around the sun

A meteor can be best described as

A shooting star, It has a flaming tail and sometimes smoke.

A chunk of left over material from the SS formation.

Copernicus proposes the earth rotates on its axis ...

once daily, and travels around the sun once a year.

An asteroid can be defined as

The biggest rock made from iron that orbit around the sun.

In 400BC, Greek Philosophers, Aristotle and Heraclides propose

The earth was the centre of the universe

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1
What is the Milky way
The galaxy that the solar system is part of.
The solar system is part of
The world we live in
a Black hole
2
Without the sun....
All of the above
There would be n food on earth
We would not have clean energy
The universe would be in total darkness
3
The main asteroid belt is located between
Saturn and pluto
The sun and earth
Mars and Jupiter
Uranus and Mars
4
Hubble and Hale are responsible for
Mars Rover
A satellite
Telescopes that change our understanding of the Solar System
The discovery of Neptune
5
The Kuiper Belt
is surrounded by gas
is in the outer Solar System
is where asteroids go to die
is home to the giant planets
6
In 1610, a telescope powerful enough to identify moons on Jupiter was developed by
Newton
Hubble
Kepler
Galileo
7
All planets move in
a slow motion way around the sun
a circular motion around the sun
an elliptical orbit around the sun
in a different way around the sun.
8
If it wasn't for Lyman Spitzer, the idea for the ______telescope would have been years away...
space station
reflective
Hubble
Curiosity
9
A meteor can be best described as
A shooting star
It has a flaming tail and sometimes smoke.
An asteroid
a meteoroid that has not entered the earth's atmosphere.
10
What is a comet?
A natural body that orbits a planet
A planet
clean snowballs
A chunk of left over material from the SS formation.
11
Eratotosthenes proves the earth is
the centre of the universe
round
a planet
bigger than the sun
12
Copernicus proposes the earth rotates on its axis ...
once daily, and travels around the sun once a year.
twice daily, and travels around the sun many a year.
once daily, and travels around the sun twice a year.
Clockwise
13
Gravity was discovered by __________ in
Bruno in 1584
Thomas Digges in 1989
Roemer in 1677
Newton in 1687
14
An asteroid can be defined as
Gas giants
Dirty snowballs.
The biggest rock made from iron that orbit around the sun.
the smallest rock that orbit around the sun.
15
In the early modern world, Khayyam created an accurate calendar in
8000BC
1080AD
1000AD
40000000BC
16
The sun can be defined as....
The centre of the Solar system
The planet that orbits
Unnecessary for human life
17
The largest asteroid is
Blue
a comet
Half the size of the sun
Ceres
18
When did the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander peoples navigate using the stars?
40 000 BC
4000 AD
400 000 BC
400 AD
19
In 400BC, Greek Philosophers, Aristotle and Heraclides propose
a system of books about the stars.
The earth was flat
The earth was the centre of the universe
The sun was big

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