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Activity Worksheet 1
Instruction: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided.
MELC 1: Explain how the Greeks knew that the Earth is spherical.
_____1. Which of the following did the Israelites believed about the Earth?
a. They believe that the sky is a solid ball with the sun and moon embedded in it.
b. They thought that the earth is like a disc floating in water.
c. They believed that the world is a disk in the ocean
d. They thought that the world is plane or discoidal in form.

_____2. How did the Greeks know that the earth is spherical?
a. They observed that during solar eclipse, the shadow of the moon is circular.
b. They observed that during lunar eclipse, high tides occurs.
c. They observed the during lunar eclipse, the earth shadow on moon’s surface is
circular. d. They observed the during solar eclipse, the earth shadow on moon’s surface
is circular.

_____3. Early Egyptian and Mesopotamian believed that the world is a disk in the ocean. According to this
belief that:
a. The Earth’s shape was plane or disk.
b. an arched bowl separates the earth from the heavens.
c. the earth is like a disc floating on the water.
d. a body of water surrounds the circular flat Earth.

_____4. Which of the following are Aristotle’s listed arguments for a spherical earth?
a. The shape of the moon and the sun, the positions of the North Star.
b. The size of the moon and the sun, the positions of the South Star.
c. The distance of the moon and the sun, the positions of the North Star.
d. The disappearance of the sun and moon and appearance of day and night.

MELC 2: Cite examples of astronomical phenomena known to astronomers before the advent oftelescopes.
_____5. Scientists have explained that the Nebra sky disk can be a _______________. a. point where the
sun rises and sets in the horizon.
b. picture of the sky on rocks.
c. religious symbol and an astronomical calendar
d. recorder of positions of planets and the time eclipse events.

_____6. The ancient astronomers were able to observe the following except;
a. the sun and the moon
b. rising and setting of the sun in the east and the west
c. phases of the moon
d. daily and annual motion of the Earth

_____7. During the Hellenistic era, Earth is believed to be the center of the Universe. Plato introduced that:
a. the distances between the nearby planetary object.
b. the planets follow perfect circular orbits around the earth.
c. he tried to calculate thecircumference of the earth.
d. the idea of rotating Earth was pointed as the reason for the diurnal motion of stars.

MELC 3: Explain how Brahe’s innovations and extensive collection of data in observational astronomypaved
the way for Kepler’s Discovery of his laws of planetary motion.

Instruction: Give a short explanation for your answers.

8-10. Tycho Brahe's observations were used by Johannes Kepler, a student of Tycho, to formulate the laws
of planetary motion. How did Brahe's innovations in observational astronomy, as well as his extensive data
collection, pave the way for Kepler's discovery of his laws of planetary motion? (3 points)