Astronomy Part 1 - The Sun and Stars
Authored by Landon Ahlers
Science
9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The belief that the sun was the center of the solar system and that the earth rotated around it
Heliocentrism
Geocentricism
Egocentrism
Paleocentrism
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The belief that the Earth is the center of the Universe and the planets and sun rotated around it
Heliocentrism
Geocentricism
Egocentrism
Paleocentrism
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun.
Ellipse
Eclipse
Perielion
Aphelion
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is furthest from the sun.
Ellipse
Eclipse
Perielion
Aphelion
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; Played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Rosalind Franklin
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe; said planets orbited in perfect circles
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Rosalind Franklin
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
described that the orbits of the planets were not in perfect circles but were in ellipses
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Rosalind Franklin
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