CLASS 8 Chapter 17 Stars and the Solar System

Short answer type questions

 

Question 1. What do you understand by celestial objects?

Question 2. Explain the different phases of the moon.

Question 3. Describe the moon’s surface.

Question 4. What is a constellation? List the names of some constellations.

Question 5. What is a solar system consisting of?

Question 6.  How can you locate pole star with the help of Ursa major?

Question 7. What are asteroids?

Question 8. What are the superstitions about comets?

Questions 9. Write the difference between meteors and meteorites.

Question 10. What do understand by artificial satellites? Write its uses.

Question 11. What do you understand by remote sensing?

Question 12. What is a satellite? Name the natural satellite of the earth.

Long answer type questions

 

Question 1. Describe the following constellations.

  1. Ursa major
  2. Orion
  3. Cassiopeia

Question 2. Write the characteristic features of all the planets of the solar system.

Question 3. What are comets? Illustrate the different positions of a comet.