intro to astronomy

What is defined as "a body of knowledge, and also a method of how we learned that knowledge"

• religion

• history

• astronomy

• science

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What is the name or our spiral galaxy?

• Andromeda

• Milky Way

• Virgo

• Triangulum

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The visible Universe is _____

• expanding, faster every day

• expanding at a constant rate

• stationary

• shrinking

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For a kid, what can be very simply defined as "the study of things in the sky"?

• astrology

• meteorology

• astronomy

• geology

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Humans have been looking up at the sky _____

• for as long as we’ve been humans

• for all of recorded history

• since the Earth was born

• since the invention of the telescope

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Which term means that "all the objects in the sky revolve about the Earth"?

• heliocentrism

• geocentrism

• Copernicism

• ellipticism

The sun rises in the

• east

• west

• south

• north

How many days in an earth year?

• 180

• 365

• 24

• 356

How long does it take the earth to spin one time around its axis?

• 24 hours

• 30 days

• 365 days

• 12 hours

Why are there seasons?

• The earth spins on its axis

• the earth orbits the sun

• the earth is closer to the sun in the summer

• the axis of the earth is tipped.