Astronomy Section I

Which ancient structure is not thought to have been used for astronomy?

• Stonehenge

• Temple of Isis

• Stone Dagger

• Colosseum

What people produced the earliest complete records of observations regarding astrological phenomena?

• The ancient Syrians

• The ancient Aztecs

• The ancient Greeks

• The ancient Zulu

Why was Sputnik 1 important?

• It held the first dog in orbit.

• It was the first man made satellite in orbit.

• It carried the first human into orbit.

• A chimpanzee piloted it into orbit.

What model of the universe did Aristotle propose?

• The Geocentric Model

• The Heliocentric Model

• The Ptolemic Model

• Newtonian Model

What is retrograde motion?

• Periods where planets seem to reverse direction of motion, it is caused by the relative motion of Earth and other planets

• Periods where all planets seem to be moving in the same direction. It is caused by the synchronous motion of Earth and other planets.

• Periods where all planets seem to be moving backward. It is caused by the irrelevant motion of Earth and the other planets.

Who extended Aristotle's ideas and combined them with planetary motion?

• Socrates

• Ptolemy

• Plato

• Kepler

Kepler discovered that planetary orbits are _____.

• epicycle

• relevant

• elliptical

• circular

Who was the first person to make astronomical observations using a telescope in 1609?

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Aristotle

• Tycho

Which one is not one of Newton's laws of motion?

• An object at rest or in motion will maintain that motion unless acted upon by an outside force

• an object's acceleration is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to the object's mass

• an object decelerates as it approaches the focus of gravity

• to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

What is light?

• a form of temperature

• a form of matter

• A form of electromagnetic radiation

• a form of motion