Intro to Astronomy

What protects us from the onslaught of subatomic particles from the Sun?

• a gravitational field
• an electric field
• a magnetic field
• a mine field

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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

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Which term means that "all the objects in the sky revolve about the Earth"?

• heliocentrism
• geocentrism
• Copernicism
• ellipticism

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Who promoted the idea that the Sun was the center of the solar system?

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Ptolemy
• Copernicus

Who invented calculus to help him understand the way objects moved in space?

• Johannes Kepler
• Tycho Brahe
• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus

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What is the major advantage of orbiting telescopes?

• they have higher sensitivity detectors
• the atmosphere doesn’t blur observations
• they use light-sensitive chemicals
• they use computers to analyze observations

What percentage of the universe can we directly see?

• 4%
• 10%
• 40%
• 100%

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The sun rises in the

• east
• west
• south
• north

the sun sets in the

• east
• west
• north
• south