The Universe

Some questions on the ooniverse.

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  • Created by: George
  • Created on: 08-05-10 13:02

1. Why did it take Copericus's model of the soalr system so long to be accepted?

  • Copernicus was a woman
  • All of the below
  • His ideas were seen by the church as blasphemy
  • Copericus had no friends
  • It goes against common sense
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2. What is a nebula?

  • A star
  • Two stars
  • A cloud of gas and dust
  • It catches fish
  • A galaxy

3. Heliocentric means that the Earth is at the center of the solar system. True orFalse?

  • False
  • True

4. What is parallax shift?

  • Shift of light towards the red end of the spectrum when the source is moving away from you
  • Another name for an eclipse
  • A dance move
  • The apparent change in the postion of something when viewed from a different viewpoint
  • A dead deer

5. The brighter a Cepheid Variable is the shorter it's period. True or False?

  • False
  • True

Comments

Will

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mega nicey nicey

Matt Northwood

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good

Katie Pringle

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good way to revise

Dasmesh

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Copernicus was not a woman :P

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