Test Astronomy
9 Questions
| Total Attempts: 293
This Test will evaluate your knowlege of the Big Bang Theory and the Early Astronomers and their discoveries.
Questions and Answers
- 1.The Ancient Greeks such as Aristotle and Ptolemy believed that
- A.
The Earth is the center of the universe
- B.
The Sun is the center of the unverse
- 2.This ancient Greek Astronomer influenced Copernicus to theorize the Heliocentric Solar System.
- A.
Martin Luther
- B.
Kepler
- C.
Ptolemy
- 3.Johannes Kepler removed the Earth as the center of the universe to create his Theory of the Heliocentric Model.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Kepler said that the planets orbits the sun in ___________ motions rather than in perfect circles.
- 5._________________ proposed that motions of objects were controlled or governed by 3 laws of Motion.
- A.
Copernicus
- B.
Einstein
- C.
Sir Isaac Newton
- 6.What celestial body is responsible for the tides on the Earth?
- A.
Sun
- B.
Stars
- C.
Moon
- 7.What is reponsible for night and day on Earth?
- A.
The 23 degree angle of the north and south poles
- B.
The movement of Earth on its axis
- C.
The revolution around the sun.
- 8.What movement of the Earth gives us our yearly calendar?
- A.
The movement of the earth on its axis
- B.
The revolution around the Sun
- C.
The monthly movement of the moon around the earth
- 9.This 20th Century Scientist was a great thinker. His THEORY OF RELATIVITY theorized that time travel was possible
- A.
Edwin Hubble
- B.
Albert Einstein
- C.
Stephen Hawking
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