Question 1

What did Nicolas Copernicus observe?

Accepted Answer

That the movement of planets did not agree with the Earth-centered model

Answer

That the movement of planets did agree with the Earth-centered model

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That the planets went around the moon

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That the planets could all align to make up constillations

Question 2

What did Tycho Brahe create?

Accepted Answer

He created instruments to measure the movement of objects in space

Answer

He created instruments to travel into space

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He created instruments to measure the Sun's solar flares

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He created instruments to measure the size of the moon

Question 3

What did Johannes Kepler do?

Accepted Answer

He developed the laws of planetary motion and published Astronomia Nova

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He created geometry and mathematics to solve Newton's Laws

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He worked with Newton to create the laws of motion

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He developed Newton's Laws

Question 4

Johannes Kepler published Kepler's Laws into the book called the Illiad.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 5

What is Kepler's First Law?

Accepted Answer

States that paths of the planet's are ellipses with the sun at one focus

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States that the planet's paths are not ellipses with the sun at one focus

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States that the planet's paths are all circles with the sun at one focus

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States that planet's only move every few months around the sun

Question 6

How is Earth's actual orbit shape?

Accepted Answer

Nearly Circular

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Octagon

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Circular

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Linear

Question 7

Keplers Second Law states an imaginary line drawn from the sun to the planet will sweep out equal areas at same times

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 8

What is perihelion?

Accepted Answer

The point closest to the sun that a planet reaches

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The time it takes for the sun to go around the planet

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The time it takes for the planet to go around the sun

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The point farthest away from the sun that a planet reaches

Question 9

What is aphelion?

Accepted Answer

The point farthest away from the sun that a planet reaches

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The point closest to the sun that a planet reaches

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The time it takes for the sun to go around the planet

Answer

The time it takes for the planet to go around the sun

Question 10

Kepler's Third Law states that the period for a planet to orbit the sun increases rapidly with the radius of its orbit.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 11

What is the formula for Kepler's Third Law?

Accepted Answer

T2= d3

Answer

V= t/r

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A= r * p

Answer

T3 = d2

Question 12

When did Isaac Newton begin his studies of planetary motion?

Accepted Answer

1666

Answer

1766

Answer

1989

Answer

1566

Question 13

The law of universal gravitation states objects attract other objects with a force same as their masses and distance.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 14

What is gravitational force?

Accepted Answer

Force of attraction between 2 objects that is proportional to their mass

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An objects resistance to any type of force

Answer

Force of attraction between 3 objects that is proportional to their mass

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A quantity that measures an objects repsonse to gravitatonal force

Question 15

What is inertial mass?

Accepted Answer

An objects resistance to any type of force

Answer

Force of attraction between 2 objects that is proportional to their mass

Answer

A quantity that measures an objects repsonse to gravitatonal force

Answer

Force of attraction between 3 objects that is proportional to their mass

Question 16

What is gravitational mass?

Accepted Answer

A quantity that measures an objects repsonse to gravitatonal force

Answer

Force of attraction between 2 objects that is proportional to their mass

Answer

Force of attraction between 3 objects that is proportional to their mass

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An objects resistance to any type of force

Question 17

How do you measure gravitational mass?

Accepted Answer

A simple scale

Answer

A thermo gun

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A balance spring

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A thermometer

Question 18

What is astronomy?

Accepted Answer

The study of the objects that lie beyond our planet and how they interact

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The study of the way our planet moves

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The study of the way Mars moves

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The study of the moon

Question 19

What is a light-year?

Accepted Answer

The distance light travels in one year

Answer

The distance sound travels in one year

Answer

The distance the sun travels in one year

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The distance planets travel in one year

Question 20

What is a constellation?

Accepted Answer

What astronemers use to divide the sky into sections

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What astronmers use to measure distance

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What astronomers use to measure the distance between planets

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What astronomers use to measure the movement of planets

Question 21

How many constellations are there?

Accepted Answer

88

Answer

76

Answer

66

Answer

34

Question 22

What is a galaxy?

Accepted Answer

A system made up of gas, dust, and numerous stars held together by gravity

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A system that destroys stars and creates new ones

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A system that distributes stars around the galaxy

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A system that removes gas,dust, and stars from other galaxies

Question 23

What is the closest galaxy to the milky way?

Accepted Answer

Andromeda Galaxy

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Angelous Galaxy

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Anpolix Galaxy

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Copernicus Galaxy

Question 24

In a motion diagram you replace the object of interest with single points.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 25

What is position?

Accepted Answer

The distance and direction from the origin to the object

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Entire length of an objects path even if the object moves in many direction

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A quantity that has both magnitude and direction

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The size of an object

Question 26

What is magnitude?

Accepted Answer

The size of an object

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A quantity that is just a number without any direction

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A quantity that has both magnitude and direction

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The distance and direction from the origin to the object

Question 27

What is a vector?

Accepted Answer

A quantity that has both magnitude and direction

Answer

A quantity that is just a number without any direction

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Entire length of an objects path even if the object moves in many direction

Answer

The distance and direction from the origin to the object

Question 28

What is a scalar?

Accepted Answer

A quantity that is just a number without any direction

Answer

A quantity that has both magnitude and direction

Answer

The distance and direction from the origin to the object

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Entire length of an objects path even if the object moves in many direction

Question 29

What is a time interval?

Accepted Answer

The difference between 2 times

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A vector that represents the sum of two other vectors

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The distance and direction from the origin to the object

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A change in position

Question 30

What is a displacement?

Accepted Answer

A change in position

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A vector that represents the sum of two other vectors

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The difference between 2 times

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The distance and direction from the origin to the object

Question 31

What is a resultant?

Accepted Answer

A vector that represents the sum of two other vectors

Answer

The distance and direction from the origin to the object

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The difference between 2 times

Answer

A change in position

Question 32

8/1/00

Accepted Answer

1

Answer

3

Answer

4

Answer

5

Question 33

How many significant figures are in 6.009?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

2

Answer

5

Answer

3

Question 34

How many significant figures are in 40240?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

3

Answer

2

Answer

5

Question 35

How many significant figures are in 0.203?

Accepted Answer

3

Answer

1

Answer

4

Answer

2

Question 36

How many significant figures are in 19.89?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

1

Answer

3

Answer

2

Question 37

What is physics?

Accepted Answer

The study of the physical world

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The study of matter and its changes

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The study of blood

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The study of life and development

Question 38

What are the steps in the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion

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Experiment, Conclusion, Observation, Hypothesis

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Hypothesis, Observation, Conclusion, Experiment

Answer

Conclusion, Experiment, Observation, Hypothesis

Question 39

Which of these is considered qualitative data?

Accepted Answer

Color

Answer

Seconds

Answer

Kilogram

Answer

Kelvin

Question 40

Which of these is considered quantitative data?

Accepted Answer

Temperature

Answer

Color

Answer

Odor

Answer

Shape

Question 41

What is a hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

A testable statement or prediction about what has been observed

Answer

A statement that explains why something happens

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A statement that describes what happens when certain conditions are present

Answer

A statement with no answer

Question 42

What is an experiment?

Accepted Answer

A set of controlled observations that test a hypothesis

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A set of random observations that prove a hypothesis wrong

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A set of random observations that prove a hypothesis right

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A set of observations that do not test the hypothesis

Question 43

What is a variable?

Accepted Answer

A quantity or condition that can have more than one value

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A quantity that has no standard

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The only thing in the experiment that does not change

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Something that changes because of the independent variable

Question 44

What is control?

Accepted Answer

Only thing in the experiment that does not change used to compare results

Answer

A quantity that has no standard

Answer

Something that changes because of the independent variable

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A quantity or condition that can have more than one value

Question 45

The variable that changes in the experiment is called the dependent variable.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 46

What is the conclusion?

Accepted Answer

A judgement based on the information obtained

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A quantity or condition that can have more than one value

Answer

A comparison between an unknown quantity and a standard

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A testable statement or prediction about what has been observed

Question 47

What is a model?

Accepted Answer

Representation of an idea, structure, or object to better understand it

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A quantity or condition that can have more than one value

Answer

A comparison between an unknown quantity and a standard

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A testable statement or prediction about what has been observed

Question 48

What is the difference between theory and law?

Accepted Answer

Theory explains why something happens while law describes what happens

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Theory describes what happens while law explains why something happens

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Theory changes in the experiment while law stays the same

Answer

Law changes in the experiment while theory stays the same

Question 49

What is the SI Base Unit for time?

Accepted Answer

Seconds

Answer

Hours

Answer

Minutes

Answer

Days

Question 50

What is the SI Base Unit for length?

Accepted Answer

Meter

Answer

Seconds

Answer

Kelvin

Answer

Kilogram

Question 51

The SI Base Unit for mass is kilogram.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 52

The SI Base Unit for temperature is Celsius.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 53

What is a measurement?

Accepted Answer

A comparison between an unknown quantity and a standard

Answer

A comparison between 2 numbers

Answer

A base unit of length

Answer

A comparison between a quantity and a standard

Question 54

What is precision?

Accepted Answer

How close measurements of the same item are to each other

Answer

How close a number is to a hidden value

Answer

How close colors are to blending to each other

Answer

How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value

Question 55

What is accuracy?

Accepted Answer

How close a measurement is to the true or accepted value

Answer

How close colors are to blending to each other

Answer

How close measurements of the same item are to each other

Answer

How close a number is to a hidden value

Question 56

How many significant figures are in 44.87?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

3

Question 57

How many significant figures are in 400?

Accepted Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

3

Answer

0

Question 58

How many significant figures are in 580.?

Accepted Answer

3

Answer

2

Answer

1

Answer

0

Question 59

What is kinetic friction?

Accepted Answer

A force that acts between moving objects.

Answer

A force that keeps an object at rest.

Answer

A force that keeps an object moving.

Answer

A force that acts after an object moves

Question 60

What is static friction?

Accepted Answer

A force that keeps an object at rest.

Answer

A force that acts after an object moves

Answer

A force that acts between moving objects.

Answer

A force that keeps an object moving.

Question 61

What is the equilibriant?

Accepted Answer

A force capable of balancing another force

Answer

A force that keeps an object moving.

Answer

A force that acts between moving objects.

Answer

A force that keeps an object at rest.

Question 62

What is a projectile?

Accepted Answer

An object shot through the air.

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An object that moves along a circle

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An object that has no path through space.

Answer

An objects path through space.

Question 63

What is a trajectory?

Accepted Answer

An objects path through space.

Answer

An object that moves along a circle

Answer

An object that has no path through space.

Answer

An object shot through the air.

Question 64

If a person throws a ball across a field the ball is the trajectory.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

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