Early Astronomy

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars. This includes the sun revolving around the Earth. This model was proven wrong.

• Geocentric
• Heliocentric
• Solarcentric
• Suncentric

What Shape is Earth's orbit?

• Circular
• Elliptical
• Rectangular
• Eclipse

What is the name of the model in which the Sun is in the middle of the Solar System?

• Solarcentric
• Suncentric
• Geocentric
• Heliocentric

What did Copernicus discover?

• The Earth is at the center of the Solar System
• The Sun is at the center of the Solar System
• The Moon is at the center of the Solar System
• There is a black hole in the center of the Solar System

Who was the first person to use a telescope to observe objects in space?

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Kepler

Galileo discovered huge pits on the moon called what?

• Moon holes
• Dips
• Bends
• Craters

Which scientist helped explain that gravity is why all the planets orbit the Sun?

• Kepler
• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Newton

Which scientist found that the planets orbit the sun with an elliptical orbit?

• Kepler
• Newton
• Ptolemy
• Galileo

Which Greek astronomer was believed for over 1400 years even though his theory of the Solar System was wrong?

• Galileo
• Copernicus
• Newton
• Ptolemy

What was the name Dr. Brule (SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE-SPACE) give his planet that was too far and didn't have a name?

• Shoris-Dingle
• Boris-Shingle
• Dorris-Pringle
• Carlos-Jingle