World Religion Ariane Basug New
World Religion Ariane Basug New
Refer to the reading, The Clash Within: The Manichean claim is that the real struggle is a struggle within
the individual self.
Ans. FALSE
True or False: Galtung’s typologies of violence present the idea of violence being inevitable.
ANS. FALSE
Ans FALSE
The members of the LGBT community being deprived of certain civil rights is a clear manifestation of
Ans STRUCTURAL
The type of violence that represents behaviors that serve to threaten life itself and/or diminish one’s
capacity to meet basic human needs
Ans DIRECT
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers.
Witchcraft performed as part of native religion in Negroid populations in Africa often results to murder
of human Albinos as they are perceived as objects of fear and loathing.
Ans DIRECT
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers.
Farmers who cannot own, sell nor mortgage the land to take a loan
ans STRUCTURAL
ans PREJUDICE
TRUE
Positive peace is the absence of violence, curative and achieved not always by peaceful means.
Ans FALSE
ans DISCRIMINATION
Negative peace includes structural (human) integration, preventive and achieved always by peaceful
means
Ans FALSE
ans FALSE
Women being deprived of political rights and viewed as inferior to men is a clear manifestation of
Ans STRUCTURAL
All forms of violence are shaped by conscious or unconscious human agency where religious influences
are always operative.
Ans True
According to the reading on Galtung’s Typologies of violence, discrimination is used to sanitize massive
cultural violence.
Ans FALSE
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers. Minority (ethnic) discrimination in workplaces
ans STRUCTURAL
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers. Verbal attacks/abuse
Ans DIRECT
The type of violence that represents the existence of prevailing or prominent social norms that make
direct and structural violence seem natural or right or at least acceptable
Ans CULTURAL
The article, The Clash Within, explains that religious violence is a product of clash of civilizations.
Ans FALSE
The type of violence that represents the systematic ways in which some groups are hindered from equal
access to opportunities, goods and services that enable the fulfillment of basic human needs
ans STRUCTURAL
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers.
Palestinians in Israel do not have 100% rights and privileges of Jewish citizens.
Ans STRUCTURAL/CULTURAL
True or False: The three forms of violence are interrelated and mutually reinforcing.
Ans TRUE
A person working as a house helper who does not meet his/her basic needs such as food because of
his/her employer’s restrictions is a clear manifestation of
Ans Cultural
Structural violence represents the existence of prevailing or prominent social norms that make direct
violence seem natural or right.
Ans FALSE
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers. In Yemen, a woman’ testimony isn’t taken seriously unless
backed up by a man’ testimony. Women can’t testify at all in cases of adultery, libel, theft or sodomy.
Ans STRUCTURAL/CULTURAL
The members of the LGBT community being viewed as ‘immoral’ by some Christians is a clear
manifestation of
Ans CULTURAL
The type of violence that represents the existence of prevailing or prominent social norms that make
direct and structural violence seem natural or right or at least acceptable
Ans CULTURAL
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers. In Yemen, a woman’ testimony isn’t taken seriously unless
backed up by a man’ testimony. Women can’t testify at all in cases of adultery, libel, theft or sodomy.
ans STRUCTURAL/CULTURAL
The members of the LGBT community being viewed as ‘immoral’ by some Christians is a clear
manifestation of
Ans CULTURAL
True or False: Religious functions in both the promotion of cultural violence and
cultural peace.
Ans. True
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the
correct answers. Some numbers may have two/three answers.
In China, female babies are sometimes killed with a law limiting families to
one child.
Ans. Direct Violence
Select one:
Feedback
The correct answer is: Understanding about ritual practices and what scriptures say
A Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian
community
Select one:
a. Monasticism
b. Diaspora
c. Methodism
d. Baptism
Feedback
You had seen your friend’s post in facebook about how he hates all Muslims because they are all
terrorists. What will you do as a religious literate person?
Select one:
a. Understand where he is coming from and that his post maybe justifiable because many people are
killed during terrorist attacks.
c. Accept the fact that in reality, we have our own biases towards our religion.
d. Tell him to stop generalizing. Though Muslim fundamentalists were behind in recent terrorist attacks,
not all Muslims are Muslim fundamentalists.
Feedback
The correct answer is: Tell him to stop generalizing. Though Muslim fundamentalists were behind in
recent terrorist attacks, not all Muslims are Muslim fundamentalists.
The emotional nature of stressful events is lessened at times by reducing it to cold logic.
Answer: repression
This is the most primitive defense mechanism, in which the ego simply refuses to acknowledge anxiety-
producing realities.
Answer: denial
This defense mechanism involves directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening target.
Answer: Intellectualization
It is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism. It pushes unacceptable id impulses back into
the unconscious mind.
Answer: Displacement
The person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way, such as a boxer who channeled his
aggressive drive in the ring.
Answer: Sublimation
These are tactics that the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
Answer: ego
This is the harsh internal judge of our behavior. It is reflected in what we often call conscience and
evaluates the morality of our behavior.
Answer: Id
This is Jung’s name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious mind, shared by all human
beings because of their common ancestral past.
This is the Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality. It abides by reali
It consists of unconscious drives and is the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy. It works for the
pleasure principle.
Select one:
d. personal meanings each person makes with and from the ‘texts’ he encounters from his everyday life
The correct answer is: shared meanings we make and encounter in our everyday lives
Select one:
a. A public teacher humiliated a student who did not know a verse in the Bible.
b. A Muslim employer refused to accept a qualified applicant because he is a Catholic and it would affect
their working relationship.
c. After the recent Paris terrorist attacks, there was a 300% increase of hate crimes against Muslims in
Britain.
d. A store clerk who let a Muslim customer purchase despite the manager’s order to block Muslims from
their store after bombing happened in their community.
Feedback
The correct answer is: A store clerk who let a Muslim customer purchase despite the manager’s order to
block Muslims from their store after bombing happened in their community.
True or False: The recognition that all knowledge claims are situated is a manifestation of relativism
whereby all interpretations are considered to be equally valid.
Select one:
b. True
d. False
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The correct answer is: False
The phrases, “Buddhists encourages internal peace.” or “Islam encourages violence.” are problematic
and even wrong. Why?
Select one:
b. People’s behaviors in the 21st century are more influenced by media and not by religion anymore.
d. No generalizations can be made because of the vast diversity of beliefs and interpretations of
sect/branches within a religion
Feedback
The correct answer is: No generalizations can be made because of the vast diversity of beliefs and
interpretations of sect/branches within a religion
Select one:
a. True
b. False
Feedback
An energetic devotional reform movement, emphasizing the forgiveness and grace of a loving God
Select one:
a. Methodism
b. Diaspora
c. Baptism
d. Monasticism
Feedback
Select one:
a. True
b. False
Feedback
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Feedback
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Feedback
Select one:
a. True
b. False
Select one:
a. Pentecostalism
b. Catholic Reformation
c. Sufism
d. Salafim
Select one:
a. False
b. True
What is one possible explanation of why most victims of Muslim hate crimes are women?
Select one:
b. Muslim women are attractive and are physically weaker so those who attack them are encouraged to
do so.
c. Most women are vulnerable to violent attacks and their Muslim identity is more obvious because they
wear a headdress.
d. Most women Muslims perpetrate the terrorist attacks. They hold the highest positions among terrorist
circles.
The correct answer is: Most women are vulnerable to violent attacks and their Muslim identity is more
obvious because they wear a headdress.
The members of the LGBT community being viewed as ‘immoral’ by some Christians is a clear
manifestation of
Select one:
a. Direct Violence
b. Indirect Violence
c. Cultural Violence
d. Structural Violence
Select one:
a. True
b. False
One assumption of the cultural studies approach is that the method is discrete.
Select one:
a. True
b. False
She believed that the need for security, not for sex, is the prime motive of human existence.
He believed that we are all born with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life – we simply need the right
condition to thrive. Each person is born with natural capacities for growth and fulfillment.
Select one:
a. True
b. False
Select one:
a. Direct Violence
b. Structural Violence
c. Cultural Violence
d. Traditional Violence
True or False: Galtung’s typologies of violence present the idea of violence being inevitable.
Select one:
b. False
d. True
o be completely unbiased in understanding world religions may not be achieved in reality, what then can
be the best attribute of a religious literate person?
Select one:
b. Can be biased towards his/her own religion but should be open and sincere in understanding other
religions
c. Can be biased towards his/her religion but critically sees the similarities and contrasts among the
different religions
d. Firm in his/her conclusion that their religion is the only true religion but then respects other religions
The correct answer is: Can be biased towards his/her own religion but should be open and sincere in
understanding other religions
Select one:
a. interpreting and applying the words in the Bible and its verses
c. understanding the truth about God and what one needs to be saved
The correct answer is: understanding other religious beliefs, traditions and institutions in a scientific
approach
The members of the LGBT community being deprived of certain civil rights is a clear manifestation of
Select one:
a. Indirect Violence
b. Structural Violence
c. Cultural Violence
d. Direct Violence
Select one:
a. False
b. True
c. the diversity of religious beliefs, traditions and institutions among and within religions
The correct answer is: the truth about God and the ways to be saved
Jews believe that the words of their sacred book were originally revealed by the Angel Gabriel.
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Which of the following statements about religion in the 21st century is true?
Select one:
a. The influences of religions in human society remain potent in the 21st century.
d. Most people have diverted their belief towards science than in religion.
The correct answer is: The influences of religions in human society remain potent in the 21st century.
The type of violence that represents the systematic ways in which some groups are hindered from equal
access to opportunities, goods and services that enable the fulfillment of basic human needs
Select one:
a. Direct Violence
b. Cultural Violence
c. Structural Violence
d. Indirect Violence
Select one:
a. Religions should be discussed personally inside families and not in public schools.
b. Enforce the law protecting victims of hate crimes and violence against religious sectors
The correct answers are: Include a curriculum on World Religions from a nonsectarian perspective in
public education, Enforce the law protecting victims of hate crimes and violence against religious sectors
Muslims claim that Muhammad is only a messenger and not a divine being.
Select one:
a. False
b. True
The assumptions of the cultural studies approach in understanding religion are the following except
Select one:
b. All forms of inquiry are interpretations which are filtered through particular lenses
d. All knowledge claims are situated in that they arise out of a particular social/historical contexts
The correct answer is: Culture norms represent uncontested absolute, universal truths
True or False: Terrorist attacks are not part of Islam.
Select one:
b. True. Islam is all about love. Nothing else. Acts like these are not supported by the original texts of
Islam and therefore shouldn’t be considered part of Islam.
d. False. Radical Muslims committed terrorist attacks. They may not represent classical Islam or Islam in
its entirety buy they show how religions are interpreted and reinterpreted in different time and space
contexts.
The correct answer is: False. Radical Muslims committed terrorist attacks. They may not represent
classical Islam or Islam in its entirety buy they show how religions are interpreted and reinterpreted in
different time and space contexts.
Which of the following is/are not included in the five precepts at the foundation of all morality?
Select one:
a. Not stealing
b. Not killing
c. Not lying
d. Not cheating
Select one:
The correct answer is: It is shaped by historical movements and cultural contexts.
In Arabic, the word islam means called out.
Select one:
a. True
b. False
Select one:
a. False
b. True
True or False: The Theravada tradition is more flexible about the orthodoxy of scriptures.
Select one:
a. False
c. True
Why are Muslim families in France facing difficulties after the Paris attacks?
Select one:
a. Parents had difficulties explaining their children that the Paris attacks were for Allah and his cause.
c. Muslim families faced starvation after governments cut food supply for them.
The correct answer is: Children face discrimination in schools and in their communities
The ideal spiritual model of Theravada Buddhism who attains nirvana and have perfected their discipline
such that defilements and desires are extinguished
Select one:
a. Buddha
b. Bodhisattva
c. Dalai Lama
d. Arahants
The ideal spiritual model of Theravada Buddhism who attains nirvana and have perfected their discipline
such that defilements and desires are extinguished
Select one:
a. Buddha
b. Bodhisattva
c. Dalai Lama
d. Arahants
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Monasticism was the movement emphasizing the forgiveness of and grace of loving God.
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Select one:
a. Bias
b. Prejudice
c. Discrimination
d. Injustice
Select one:
Feedback
The correct answer is: The dislike or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force
The ideal religious figure in the Mahayana tradition
Select one:
a. Bodhisattva
b. Bhikshus
c. Buddha
d. Bhikshunis
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The Buddhist tradition which regards itself as the most faithful to the teachings that have been passed
down through the generations
Select one:
a. Vedic
b. Vajrayana
c. Mahayana
d. Theravada
Feedback
An Islamic stream of interpretation emphasizing the interior path of mystical love and knowledge of God.
Select one:
a. Sufism
b. Catholic Reformation
c. Salafim
d. Pentecostalism
Feedback
The correct answer is: Sufism
Which is the best explanation to why radical Muslims commit acts of terrorism?
Select one:
b. They are caused by the rise of arms. The more gun, artillery, and other military weapons are created,
the more these things happen.
d. These acts are both political and religious. They are political responses to the atrocities of Western
governments towards Muslim countries and are also seen by those who commit them as expressions of
faith.
The correct answer is: These acts are both political and religious. They are political responses to the
atrocities of Western governments towards Muslim countries and are also seen by those who commit
them as expressions of faith.
Select one:
a. True
b. False
Select one:
a. the belief in one God as the Creator and the Divine Ruler
c. the belief that righteous acts and deeds are ways to be saved on the Day of Judgment
The correct answer is: the belief in one God as the Creator and the Divine Ruler
True or False: The nature of method of cultural studies approach to religion is multi and inter-
disciplinary.
Select one:
b. True
c. False
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Feedback
Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation
Drives
→ Positive feedback,
Organizational Support
→ j. Autonomy,
Needs
→ Goals,
→ food,
Evolutionary Model
→ State of tension
Hierarchical Model
→ physiological arousal occurs first,
Emotion
→ Self-actualization
Extrinsic Motivators
Select one:
a. A theologian is naturally a believer of the religion he studies; a religious scholar is a nonbeliever of any
religion
b. A theologian uses a Biblical approach; a religious scholar uses a scientific and/or academic approach in
understanding world religions
c. A theologian do not require historical and cultural knowledge of the religion he/she studies; a religious
scholar shall understand the historical and cultural contexts of world religions
The correct answer is: A theologian is biased toward a particular faith; a religious scholar is expected to
be objective in understanding world religions
The Buddhist tradition which regards itself as “great” both in its interpretations of the Buddha’s teaching
and in its openness to a broader group of people, especially lay people
Select one:
a. Vajrayana
b. Theravada
c. Mahayana
d. Vedic
Feedback
Muslims claim that Muhammad is only a messenger and not a divine being.
Select one:
a. False
b. True
Feedback
Select one:
a. Sufism
b. Catholic Reformation
c. Pentecostalism
d. Salafim
Traditional schools throughout the Muslim world for advanced study of law, philosophy, theology, arts
and sciences
Ans: SHAHADAH
Ans: c. The Creator and Ruler of the entire universe and the ultimate Judge of all human beings
The unity and oneness of God which Muhammad spoke of in contrast to polytheism
Ans: TAWHID
The rules of pronunciation, intonation, and approach governing the recitation of Quran
Ans: TAJWID
Ans: UMMAH
What term refers to a stream of interpretation of Islam emphasizing the interior path of mystical love
and knowledge of God?
Ans: suffism
One of the Sunni Muslim’s “five pillars of Islam” referring to the pilgrimage to Mecca
Ans: HAJJ
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers.
The type of violence that represents behaviors that serve to threaten life itself and/or diminish one’s
capacity to meet basic human needs
Ans: DIRECT
The members of the LGBT community being deprived of certain civil rights is a clear manifestation of
Ans: STRUCTURAL
Farmers who cannot own, sell nor mortgage the land to take a loan
Ans: STRUCTURAL
Ans: TRUE
Ans: PREJUDICE
The type of violence that represents the existence of prevailing or prominent social norms that make
direct and structural violence seem natural or right or at least acceptable
Ans: CULTURAL
Palestinians in Israel do not have 100% rights and privileges of Jewish citizens
Ans: STRUCTURAL
Ans: STRUCTURAL
Women being deprived of political rights and viewed as inferior to men is a clear manifestation of
Ans: STRUCTURAL
In china, female babies are sometimes killed with a law limiting families to one child
Ans: Direct/Cultural
Ans FALSE
The article, The Clash Within, explains that religious violence is a product of clash of civilizations.
Ans FALSE
True or False: The three forms of violence are interrelated and mutually reinforcing.
Ans TRUE
The members of the LGBT community being viewed as ‘immoral’ by some Christians is a clear
manifestation of
Ans CULTURAL
Negative peace includes structural (human) integration, preventive and achieved always by peaceful
means.
Ans FALSE
Refer to the reading, The Clash Within: The Manichean claim is that the real struggle is a struggle within
the individual self.
Ans FALSE
Ans FALSE
The type of violence that represents the systematic ways in which some groups are hindered from equal
access to opportunities, goods and services that enable the fulfillment of basic human needs
Ans STRUCTURAL
Ans: Dicrimination
True or False: Galtung’s typologies of violence present the idea of violence being inevitable
Ans FALSE
A person working as a house helper who does not meet his/her basic needs such as food because of
his/her employer’s restrictions is a clear manifestation of
Refer to the reading, The Clash Within: The Manichean claim is that the real struggle is a struggle within
the individual self.
Ans FALSE
Refer to Johan Galtung’s Three Types of Violence and select the letter of the correct answers. Some
numbers may have two/three answers.
Ans KHALIFAH
What refers to the movement born during the European colonialism arguing that the faith and practice
of Muslims had become distanced from the original message of Quran and the Prophet, as the masses
have adapted and innovated devotional practices?
Ans SALAFIS
The movement born for the improvement of the Jews; the Jewish Enlightenment
Ans HASKALAH
Ans KABBALAH
Ans TRUE
The stream of Judaism which emphasizes concerns with ethics and morality is referred to as
Ans SOLOMON
Ans BRAHMAN
Remote communities having no access to basic resources and services is a clear manifestation of
Ans : structural
Ans : structural/cultural
According to the reading on Galtung’s Typologies of violence, discrimination is used to sanitize massive
cultural violence.
Ans : false
Witchcraft performed as part of native religion in Negroid populations in Africa often results to murder
of human Albinos as they are perceived as objects of fear and loathing.
Ans : structural
Why are Muslim families in France facing difficulties after the Paris attacks?
Ans understanding other religious beliefs, traditions and institutions in a scientific approach
The phrases, “Buddhists encourages internal peace.” or “Islam encourages violence.” are problematic
and even wrong. Why?
The correct answer is: No generalizations can be made because of the vast diversity of beliefs and
interpretations of sect/branches within a religion
ANSWER
The Hebrew term for the widespread and enormous genocide of the Jewish people brought by anti-
Semitism
Answer: HOLOCAUST
One of Judaism’s elements that includes customs and food, arts and music, dance and folkways
Answer : CULTURE
Answer : TRUE
Refers to the repeated exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in Israel
Answer :Judaism is the Jewish religion that teaches the life of Jesus
A Greek termed coined specifically for the dispersion of Jews throughout the Hallenistic or Greek-
speaking world
Answer DIASPORA
Kabbalah was the movement of the common folk, stressing populism and social welfare.
Ans : true
Which of the following statement on the early Hebrew’s understanding of God is true?
Ans : a. Like Mesopotamians, the early Hebrews worshipped numerous nature deities and represented
them in forms of images and symbols
The Jewish tradition of peopehood have produced the modern ideological movement of Jewish
nationalism called
Answer : ZIONISM
The Hebrews believe that God was an abstract concept or principle socially constructed by humanity.
Answer : true
One of Judaism’s elements that embodies Judaism’s intellectual culture, focusing on the study,
understanding, and interpretation of sacred texts.
Ans : TRUE
What accusations and/or events of the anti-Jewish reactionaries led to the formation of a new political
movement, anti-Semitism or the elimination of Jews from the society?
What was the main goal of the movement, Reform Judaism, during the modern period?
The Torah is a religious textual compendium developed over the history of the Jewish people.
Ans : true
The promised land in Jewish’ history which Jews’ intended to return to after their enslavement in Egypt
Answer :isaac
Answe : ISRAEL
The vision of a universal, singular God is arguably one of the greatest religious innovations of the Jewish
tradition among the world’s historic religious systems.
Answer: TRUE
A modern ideological movement of Jewish nationalism and the idea of the restoration of the Jewish
homeland in Palestin
Answer: ZIONISM
True or False: Religious functions in both the promotion of cultural violence and cultural peace.
Ans TRUE
What is the difference between Shi’a and Sunni interpretations of the Quran?
Ans : c. Shi’a Muslims believe that Muhammad, the Messenger and the final prophet of God, is a Divine
being; Sunni Muslims rejected this belief.
The Quran is composed of chapters called as surahs which include themes such as the following except:
Ans : a. Prayers and praise of God and a recounting of God’s signs in creation
The rules of pronunciation, intonation, and approach governing the recitation of Quran
Ans : FATIHAH
The totality of God’s will regarding human action as represented in the Quran and Sunnah
Ans : SHARIAH
The opening chapter (surah) in the Quran which is recited by many Muslims as part of their prayer
everyday
Ans FATIHAH
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
What is the lightest element in the periodic table?
Select one:
a. Beryllium
b. Helium
c. Lithium
d. Hydrogen
What kind of element would you find on the far left-hand side of the periodic table?
Select one:
a. non-metal
b. noble gas
c. halogen
d. metal
Which were the first elements to form after the Big Bang started to cool?
Select one:
a. H and He
b. C and Si
c. U and Pt
d. O and N
Select one:
a. Water
b. Acetone
c. Hydrochloric Acid
d. Ether
Select one:
a. Neodymium
b. Neptunium
c. Niobium
d. Nihonium
Select one:
a. atomic radius
b. ionization energy
c. oxidation state
d. electro negativity
Select one:
Sodium (Na) is most likely to form a compound with which of the following element?
Select one:
a. Chlorine
b. Calcium
c. Iron
d. Lithium
This person is credited with the invention of the modern periodic table.
Select one:
b. Dmitri Mendeleev
c. Niels Bohr
d. Albert Einstein
Which scientist proposed that atoms are infinitesimal round balls and unable to be seen by the naked
eye?
Select one:
a. John Dalton
b. Democritus
c. Ernest Rutherford
d. JJ Thomson
Select one:
a. protons
b. positrons
c. electrons
d. neutrons
What process of writing will show the arrangement of electrons in an orbitals of an atom?
Select one:
a. Radioactive Decay
b. Electronic Configuration
c. Orbital Notation
d. Nuclear Reaction
It pertains to the formation of elements by combining the simple nuclei or atomic particles with the help
of extremely hot temperature and pressure.
Select one:
a. Chemical Bond
b. Nuclear Fusion
c. Nuclear Reaction
d. Nucleosynthesis
He believed that all matter consisted of extremely small particles that could not be divided, which then
he called - atomos - that means uncut or indivisible.
Select one:
c. Democritus
d. John Dalton
Select one:
a. Helium atom
b. Hydrogen atom
c. Electron particle
d. Proton particle
What type of terrestrial motion is responsible for the daily rising and setting of the sun and the stars?
Select one:
a. Annual Motion
b. Diurnal Motion
c. Solar Eclipse
d. Retrograde Motion
According to Kepler, the path of a planet as it revolves around the sun is a/an_________________.
Select one:
a. ellipse
b. cone
c. sphere
d. circle
Select one:
a. Copernicus
b. Hipparchus
c. Aristotle
d. Ptolemy
Which of the following is NOT correctly paired with the contribution of the astronomer?
Select one:
Select one:
a. equant
b. perihelion
c. focus
d. aphelion
Select one:
c. An object with little inertia tends to have its rest or motion changed with difficulty.
d. An object with little inertia tends to have its rest or motion changed easily.
The correct answer is: An object with little inertia tends to have its rest or motion changed with difficulty
Select one:
What property of a planet has this property directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of
its orbit
What is this type of observable motion that is associated with heavenly bodies?
What is the term that refers to the slow and continuous change in the orientation of an astronomical
body’s rotational axis?
The correct answer is: AXIAL PRECESSION
What is the term that refers to the motion of the Earth around the sun?
What is the periodic observable motion that is the result of the Earth’s movement on its axis?
What is the oldest heavenly body that has been observed and has preceded great events in history?
What is the more common term for the annual motion of the Earth with respect to the sun?
What do you call the motion of the Earth that is responsible for diurnal motion?
What do you call the event when the sun crosses the Celestial Equator?
What do you call Earth’s movement that results to the observation of diurnal motion
This motion is also called the revolution of the Earth around the sun.
This model of the universe considered the ideas of the Earth- and Sun-centered universe models.
This ancient device aligns with the North Star and is used to determine the precise time of its user’s
location.
Name the star blamed by the Greeks for the intensity of their summer.
Identify the date of the year when the Earth is at its closest from the Sun.
True or False: The matter in the early universe was not smoothly distributed across space.
True or False: The human body is composed of 65% oxygen & 18% carbon.
True or False: Dalton was the first to introduce the idea of the atom.
This refers to a star that has a mass of more than 8 solar masses.
puts the elements in order of increasing atomic number, into seven horizontal rows.
is the small, dense region at the center of an atom where protons are also found.
Feedback
True or False: The Earth's core is is composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and about 1% argon.
Select one:
a. Henri Becquerel
b. Marie Curie
c. Ernest Rutherford
d. Pierre Curie
Select one:
a. proton-proton chain
b. CNO cycle