EarthSpace - Intro to Space

Who was credited with being the first person to use a telescope to study the sky?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Aristotle

• Einstein

Who developed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Einstein

• Aristotle

______ analyzed Brahe's data and developed three laws of planetary motion.

• Kepler

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

_____ were used by neolithic farmers in Europe to help plan when to plant their crops.

• El Caracol

• Solar Observatories

• The Great Pyramid of Gyza

• Manhattanhenge

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

______ was used by Mayan priests to study astronomical events in the sky.

• Goseck Henge

• Manhattanhenge

• El Caracol

• The Great Pyramid of Gyza

In the geocentric model, the center of the solar system is...

• the Earth.

• the Sun.

In the heliocentric model, the center of the solar system is...

• the Earth.

• the Sun.

Ptolemy added epicycles to the geocentric model of the solar system to account for the apparent retrograde motion of the planets.

• True

• False

Newton's famous textbook, Principia Mathematica, almost wasn't published because the Royal Society had spent all of their budget on a book of fishes.

• True

• False

Which band of electromagnetic radiation has the highest energy?

• Radio Waves

• Microwaves

• Ultraviolet Light

• Gamma Rays

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NGSS.HS-PS4-4