REVIEW ON ANCIENT GREEK'S EVIDENCES OF SPHERICAL ERATH
Quiz by Thiza May Geguillo
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
- Q1
Who believed that spheres were the most perfect shapes and therefore all the heavenly objects including Earth must be spherical?
Aristotle
Anaxagoras
Erastosthenes
Pythagoras
15s - Q2
Who is the philosopher reasoned that Earth was spherical because of the round shadow it cast on the moon during a lunar eclipse?
Pythagoras
Anaxagoras
Eratosthenes
Aristotle
15s - Q3
Who is the Greek mathematician noticed that vertical pole cast a shadow at noon on the summer solstice in Alexandria?
Pythagoras
Eratosthenes
Anaxagoras
Aristotle
15s - Q4
Which of the following can be observed of a cruising ship sailing from port to the open sea?
It become smaller and smaller until it disappear.
It will become bigger and bigger
It will not change it's size
It will appear to sink then only sail will be visible until it completely disappear.
15s - Q5
Which of these pieces of evidences does not support the Greeks idea of a spherical Earth?
The North Star cannot be seen in the South pole.
The Earth's shadow cast on the surface of the Moon is round during a lunar eclipse.
The curvature of the Earth's surface causes the light rays to bend.
The sail disappears last when a ship sails away over the ocean.
10s