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.