Practice worksheet

PHYSICS- Grade 8
Formation of the moon

1. Identify the planet

a. Asteroid
b. Moon
c. Saturn
d. Sun

2. Fill in the blanks: _____ occurs when the moon is on the same side of Earth
as the sun.

3. . Who was the first person to land on the moon?

a. Georgy Dobrovolsky
b. Galileo Galilei
c. Neil Armstrong
d. Eli Cologne

4. The moon takes how many days to revolve around the earth?

a. 15 days
b. 30 days
c. 29 days
d. 27 days

5. What is a common theory that scientists have about how the

Moon was formed?
a. It was originally a separate planet that lost its atmosphere.
b. Two asteroid belts collided to form the Moon.
c. It is a big rock that got caught in Earth's gravitational pull on its way by.
 d. A smaller planet crashed into Earth and created pieces of material that formed
the Moon.

6. What did the Moon look like when it first formed?

a. Like it does today

b. Like a ball of ice
c. Like it does today only much bigger
d. Like a red-hot ball of liquid rock

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13. Yuri investigates some sound waves. Sound waves can interact to reinforce or
cancel each other. Yuri looks at the waveforms the sound waves make on an
oscilloscope.
Complete the two diagrams to show what happens when each pair of waveforms
interacts.
14. Jamila makes five sounds. She looks at the trace each sound makes on an
oscilloscope. The traces are labelled A, B, C, D and E.
Look at trace A. Complete the sentences. Choose from B, C, D or E.
(a) Which sound is louder than A?
[1]

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(b) Which sound has a higher frequency than A?

[1]

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(c) Which two sounds have a different pitch to A?

[1]

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(d) Which sound has a lower amplitude than A?

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