9. Which of the following statements BEST explains why you are less likely to see a
total solar eclipse than a total lunar eclipse?
A. New moon phases occur less often than a full moon phases.
B. The moon's shadow covers all of Earth during a solar eclipse.
C. The moon's umbra only covers a small are on Earth's surface.
D. Only people on the daytime side of Earth can see a solar eclipse.
10. Which of the following is NOT an astronomical phenomena known to
astronomers before the invention of telescope?
A. Lunar Eclipse
C. Phases of the moon
B. Motion of the Moon
D. Solar Eclipse
11. Who among the following demonstrated that the planets move in elliptical
orbits around the sun?
A. Galileo Galilei
C. Nicolaus Copernicus
B. Johannes Kepler
D. Tycho brahe
12. Which of the following statements is/are CORRECT about Tycho Brahe?
A. He compiled extensive data on the planet Mars.
B. He determined the detailed motions of the planets more precisely.
C. He devised the most precise instruments available for observing the
heavens before the telescope's invention.
D. All of the above
13. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE about Kepler?
Statement ! - Kepler noticed that an imaginary line drawn from a planet to
the Sun swept out an equal area of space at the same time,
irrespective of where the planet was in its orbit.
Statement II - Kepler discovered that the planets move in an ellipse with the
Sun at one focus point, offset from the center.
A. Both statements are true.
C. Only statement II is true.
B. Only statement I is true.
D. Bothe statements are false.
14. Which of the following was discovered by Kepler with the use of Brahe's
extensive collection of data in observational astronomy?
A. Law of Motion
C. Law of Acceleration
B. Law of Relativity
D. Law of Planetary Motion
15. Which of the following is TRUE about Kepler's Third Law?
A. Any planet joining the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal lengths of time.
B. Planets move in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus point, offset from the
center.
C. There is a precise mathematical relationship between a planet's distance from
the Sun and the amount of time it takes revolve around the Sun.
D. Both A and B
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1.A
2.B
3.B
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