Astronomers

Astronomers

7th - 8th Grade

8 Qs

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Astronomers

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Greek astronomer who thought the Earth was at the center of the universe

Kepler
Brahe
Ptomely
Hawking

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This astronomer proved other galaxies existed beyond the Milky Way

Kepler
Hubble
Sagan
Brahe

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Danish astronomer whose precise measurements of the planets and stars helped future astronomers

Brahe
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He was Brahe's assistant and he announced all planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits

Einstein
Hubble
Ptomely
Kepler

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

One of the first astronomers to use a telescope to view space. He saw mountains on the moon, sunspots on the sun and phases of Venus

Galileo
Divinci
DeGrasse Tyson
Newton

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

His laws of gravity explained why planets rotated around the object with the most mass in the solar system. 

Capernicus
Kepler
Newton
Einstein

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Polish astronomer who theorized the sun is at the center of the universe and all planets orbit the sun.

Newton
Kepler
Capernicus
Galileo

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

He invented calculus

Einstein
Oppenheimer
Newton
Hubble