MHS 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

What is the name or our spiral galaxy?

• Andromeda
• Milky Way
• Virgo
• Triangulum

The visible Universe is _____

• expanding, faster every day
• expanding at a constant rate
• stationary
• shrinking

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

the sun sets in the

• east
• west
• north
• south

The sun rises in the

• east
• west
• south
• north

The sun moves from east to west in the sky because...

• The earth is rotating
• the sun is moving (compared to the earth)
• the solar system is rotating
• the different planets move differently

How many days in an earth year?

• 180
• 365
• 24
• 356

An orbit of the earth around the sun takes

• 180 days
• 30 days (1 month)
• 365 days
• 24 hours

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

• 24 hours
• 30 days
• 365 days
• 12 hours