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Electricity / Space
True False review questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An electric current is the continuous flow of neutrons. | false |
| An electric current is the continuous flow of electrons | true |
| An electric current is the continuous flow of protons | false |
| Electricity can flow through a closed circuit | true |
| Electricity can flow through a open circuit | false |
| Rubber, wood, and metals are insulators | false |
| Rubber, wood, and plastic are insulators | true |
| You have to get out of the pool when a storm is coming because water is a conductor | true |
| You have to get out of the pool when a storm is coming because water is an insulator | false |
| A series circuit has only one path for electricity to flow | true |
| A series circuit has more than one path for electricity to flow | false |
| Christmas lights are usually a parallel circuit, that way if one light goes out, they don’t all go out | true |
| You can increase the strength of an electromagnet by decreasing the number of time you wrap the wire around the iron nail | false |
| Christmas lights are usually a series circuit, that way if one light goes out, they don’t all go out | false |
| You can increase the strength of an electromagnet by increasing the number of time you wrap the wire around the iron nail | true |
| An electromagnet will not pick things up if the electric current is not flowing through the wire | true |
| Ben Franklin invented the light bulb | false |
| Thomas Edison invented the light bulb | true |
| Ben Franklin realized that lightning was a form of current electricity | false |
| Ben Franklin realized that lightning was a form of static electricity | true |
| Michael Faraday worked with electromagnets | true |
| Michael Faraday worked with lightning rods | false |
| Michael Faraday made the first electrical generator | true |
| Michael Faraday helped improve the light bulb | false |
| A rotation means to move in a circle around something | false |
| The earth rotates around the sun | false |
| The earth revolves around the sun | true |
| The moon rotates around the earth | false |
| The moon revolves around earth | true |
| Rotation means one full spin of an object on it’s axis | true |
| The earth makes one full rotation every 365 days | false |
| The earth makes one full rotation every 24 hours | true |
| The earth makes one full revolution around the sun every 365 days | true |
| The earth makes one full revolution around the sun every 24 hours | false |
| The moon makes one rotation about every month | false |
| The moon makes one revolution around the earth about once a month | true |
| The tilt of the moon on its axis causes the seasons | false |
| The tilt of the sun on its axis causes the seasons | false |
| The tilt of the earth on its axis causes the seasons | true |
| When our part of the earth is tilted toward the sun, we are having winter | false |
| When our part of the earth is tilted toward the sun, we are having summer | true |
| When our part of the earth is tilted away from the sun we are having winter | true |
| When our part of the earth is titled away from the sun we are having summer | false |
| The sun is an average-sized yellow star | true |
| The sun is an extra-large red star | false |
| The sun is about 5 times the diameter of the earth | false |
| The sun is about 50 times the diameter of the earth | false |
| The sun is about 110 times the diameter of the earth | true |
| The sun is about 4.6 million years old | false |
| The sun is about 4.6 billion years old | true |
| The moon is a satellite of the earth | true |
| The earth is a satellite of the moon | false |
| The moon’s diameter is about two times the earth’s diameter | false |
| The moon’s diameter is about ¼ earth’s diameter | true |
| The moon is gaseous, like the gas giants | false |
| The moon is rocky | true |
| Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the solar system | false |
| Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the earth was the center of the solar system | true |
| Ptolemy was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the solar system | false |
| Galileo was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the solar system | false |
| Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer that believed that the sun was the center of the solar system | false |
| Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer that believed that the earth was the center of the solar system | true |
| Copernicus was a Polish astronomer that believed that the earth was the center of the solar system | false |
| Copernicus was a Polish astronomer that believed that the sun was the center of the solar system | true |
| Galieo was an Italian astronomer that used the newly invented microscope to prove that the sun was the center of the solar system | false |
| Galieo was an Italian astronomer that used the newly invented telescope to prove that the sun was the center of the solar system | true |
| Galieo was an Italian astronomer that used the newly invented telescope to prove that the earth was the center of the solar system | false |
| The moon gets bigger as the month goes on | false |
| The moon gets smaller as the month goes on | false |
| When no moon is visible in the sky, we call it a new moon | true |
| The moon is not in the sky when it is a new moon | false |
| The period when the moon appears to be getting larger in the sky is called waxing | true |
| The period when the moon appears to be getting larger in the sky is called waning | false |
| The period when the moon appears to be getting smaller in the sky is called waxing | false |
| The period when the moon appears to be getting smaller in the sky is called waning | true |
| Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the gas giants | false |
| Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the terrestrial planets | true |
| Terrestrial means gaseous | false |
| Terrestrial means rocky | true |
| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are gas giants | true |
| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the terrestrial planets | false |
| My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a way to remember the order of the planets from the sun out | true |
| My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a way to remember the planets in order of their size | false |
| Just Sing Until Noon, Every Voice Makes Music is a way to remember the order of the planets from the sun out | false |
| Just Sing Until Noon, Every Voice Makes Music is a way to remember the order of the planets by their size | true |
| Jealous Sisters Usually Never Eat Very Many Marshmallows could help remember the order of the planets from the sun out | false |
| Jealous Sisters Usually Never Eat Very Many Marshmallows could help remember the order of the planets from largest to smallest | true |
| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have rings | true |
| Pluto is considered a “dwarf planet” | true |
| The moon revolves around the earth about once every 29 days | true |
| Locations closet to the equator stay hot or warm all year long | true |
| Locations closet to the equator have season like Virginia | false |
| The earth is one of eight planets that revolve around the sun | true |
| The earth is the fourth planet from the sun | false |
| The earth is the third planet from the sun | true |
| The earth is one of five terrestrial inner planets | false |
| The earth is one of four terrestrial inner planets | true |
| The reason earth can support life is because of carbon dioxide and magma | false |
| The reason earth can support life is because of oxygen and water | true |
| The surface of the moon is rocky with craters and mountains | true |
| The moon has an atmosphere like earth | false |
| The sun is very hot and made of iron and nickel | false |
| The sun is very hot and made of hydrogen and helium | true |
| Our solar system is part of the Milky Way Galaxy | true |
| Our solar system is part of the Three Muskateers Galaxy | false |
| The Nasa Apollo missions sent astronauts to Mars | false |
| The Nasa Apollo missions sent astronauts to the moon | true |
| Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon | true |