About Keplers Law

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Keplers Law MCQ

1. NAME

2. Class

  • 4T

3. What is inertia?

  • amount of atoms
  • amount of gravitational pull
  • the size
  • resistance to a change in motion

4. Who was Kepler?

  • Scientist
  • German Astronomer and mathematician

5. The period of geostationary artificial satellite is

  • 6 hours
  • 12 hours

6. The study of space

  • Astronomy
  • Meteorology
  • Galaxy
  • Geology

7. When the earth is closest to the sun

  • the sun will have the biggest apparent diameter and the greatest gravitational attraction
  • the sun will have the biggest apparent diameter and the smallest gravitational attraction

8. What is obliquity?

  • The measure of the tilt of the Earth
  • The change in the shape of Earth’s orbit around the sun
  • The change in the orientation of Earth’s axis
  • The measure of solar intensity of the sun

9. Planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits

  • Law of Periods
  • Law of orbits
  • Law of Areas

10. What is Kepler's 3rd Law?

  • Law of Areas

11. How fast does the earth revolve around the sun?

  • 15 degrees per hour
  • 1 degree per hour

12. What is the smallest terrestrial planet?

  • Mars
  • Venus
  • Mercury 
  • Earth

13. Who created the Universal Law of Gravitation?

  • Newton
  • Galileo

14. What is his nationality

  • Chinese
  • Turkish

15. What is Kepler's 1st Law?

  • Law of Areas

16. What is Kepler's 2nd Law?

  • Law of Orbits
  • Law of Periods

17. Which planet has the least eccentric orbit?

  • Venus
  • Mars

18. Which diagram shows a planet with the least eccentric orbit?

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

19. A wobble back and forth

  • Rotation
  • Nutation
  • Revolution

20. An ellipse is drawn around two points called

  • aphelion
  • perihelion
  • foci
  • axis

21. What did Kepler discover about planets and their orbital speed?

  • Planets with the greatest mass will orbit the Sun with the fastest orbital speed.
  • Planets furthest from the Sun will orbit with the fastest orbital speed.

22. Where will an object move at the greatest speed as it orbits the sun?

  • Aphelion

23. How can the position of the sun in earth's orbit be described?

  • The sun is at one of the two focal points of a slightly eccentric ellipse
  • The sun is at one of the two focal points of a highly eccentric ellipse

24. The areas swept by an invisible line between the sun an the earth will be

  • equal if the earth moves for the same amount of time
  • smaller if the earth moves for the same amount of time

25. What effect does increasing the distance between an ellipse’s foci have on the shape of an ellipse?

  • Increases eccentricity
  • no effect

26. What causes Earth’s year to be shorter than Jupiter’s year?

  • the shape of Earth’s orbit around the Sun
  • the mass and density of Jupiter

27. Which planet will take the least amount of time to revolve around the Sun?

  • Venus
  • Mars

28. Which planet will take the most amount of time to revolve around the Sun?

  • Venus
  • Mars

29. What unit to we usually use to to measure a planet's orbital period?

  • year
  • astronomical unit

30. Which of Kepler's Laws is illustrated here?

  • 1st Law
  • 3rd Law

31. The planet with the most eccentric orbit is

  • Venus
  • Mars

32. Which statement correctly describes when the earth is closest to the sun

  • It is called perihelion and it occurs on July 3rd
  • It is called aphelion and it occurs on July 3rd
  • It is called perihelion and it occurs on January 3rd

33. Earth will travel fastest in its orbit when

  • the earth is closest to the sun (January 3rd)
  • The earth is closest to the sun (July 3rd)

34. What is it called when earth reaches the point in orbit when it is farthest from the sun?

  • Perihelion

35. Which model of the solar system can explain all observations

  • geocentric model

36. Firs law of Kepler?

  • None
  • The orbit of planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci
  • The radius vector of a planet sweeps over equal areas in equal time intervals of time.
  • The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit

37. Unit of 'G' is

  • N-m2/kg
  • N-m/kg2
  • N-m2/kg2
  • N-m/kg

38. 'G' is called

  • acceleration due to gravity
  • gravity
  • gravitational constant
  • gravitational force

39. When the distance between two objects increases the gravitational force between them

  • decreases
  • increases
  • no change

40. When the mass of the objects increases the gravitational force between them

  • decreases
  • increases
  • no change

41. In which position is Earth travelling fastest?

  • 1
  • 5
  • 7
  • 10

42. Who proposed Earth centered model?

  • Copernicus
  • Ptolemy
  • Kepler
  • Tycho Brahe

43. Types of celestial coordinate system

  • Latitude and longitude
  • Ecuatorial and horizontal
  • None

44. What family is he from?

  • His parents was poor
  • He didn't have a family

45. What is the second law of Kepler ?

  • All planets move around the Sun in elliptical orbits, with the Sun as one focus of the ellipse.
  • The square of the period of any planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of its orbit.

46. What is the third law of Kepler

  • The square of the period of any planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of its orbit.
  • None

47. What is the line connecting the sun and planet

  • Line
  • Area
  • Imagine
  • Radius vector

48. The factors that can determine the force between two objects include all of the following except

  • distance between the 2 objects
  • diameter of the objects

49. What is the reason for the motion of the moon on its orbit?

  • The gravitational force exerted by the sun
  • The gravitational force exerted on the Moon by the earth

50. What is the correct formula to calculate eccentricity?

  • Focal distance / major axis length
  • major axis length / minor axis length
  • minor axis length / major axis length

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