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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 Space and Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A location on earth's surface is defined by what?
(a) Height, width and depth.
(b) Altitude, degree and time.
(c) Location, time and depth.
(d) Longitude, latitude and altitude.

2. What shape did Aristotle think the Earth was?
(a) A disk.
(b) Flat.
(c) Oval.
(d) A sphere.

3. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?
(a) Remains the same.
(b) Slows down.
(c) Speeds up.
(d) Runs almost at the same pace.

4. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Ptolemy.

5. The only constant in the universe is what?
(a) Time.
(b) The speed of light.
(c) Space.
(d) The speed of sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?

2. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?

3. How does Hawking define scientific theory?

4. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?

5. Edwin Hubble's observation that the universe is expanding supports what theory?

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