Changing ideas about Earth

12 questions

1. Which of the following is a large, hot star?
2. Which of the following happens to the time it takes a planet to orbit the Sun as the distance from the Sun increases?
3. Which of the following statements about the Sun rising and setting is correct?
4. Which of the following statements about Earth, when it is winter in the UK, is correct?
5. Which of the following explains why the stars appear to move across the sky during the night?
6. Apart from the Sun, how far is the nearest star to us?
7. Which of the following does a telescope do?
8. The model of the universe in which the Earth is at the centre is called the ___ model.
9. The model of the universe in which Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun is called the ___ model.
10. Which of the following statements are evidence that Earth is a sphere?
11. Why do we accept the heliocentric model of the universe (first suggested by Copernicus) instead of the geocentric model?
12. Which of the following explains why we can see different stars in the night sky at different times of year?

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