Earth Science Practice Cosmology

Edwin Hubble was the first to realize that the Andromeda Nebula was another _________________ outside __________________.

• Galaxy, our Milky Way Galaxy

• Solar System, Our Solar System

• Universe, Our Universe

• Nebula, Our Nebula

________________ is the study of the universe.

• Climatology

• Geology

• Cosmology

• Astronomy

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Everything we can see even through our most advanced telescope is in_____________________

• Universe

• Our Solar System

• The local group

• The Milky Way

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The ancient Greeks though the universe had _________________ at the center and a sphere to which _____________ were attached.

• Earth, the Stars

• Sun, The six planets and the stars

• A black hole the entire Universe

• None of the above

The telescope that Edwin Hubble used to show that distant specks were actually galaxies was a_________________

• Refracting Telescope

• Reflecting telescope

• Space telescope

• Computer image telescope

Edwin Hubble found out what appeared to be large clouds in space were not gas but__________

• Galaxies

• Large Stars

• The Oort cloud

• The Kuiper belt

Galileo's telescope gave evidence that ___________________

• The Sun is the center of the solar system.

• Earth is the center of the universe

• A black hole is the center of the solar system.

• None of the above

The study of the universe is known as astronomy

• True

• False

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During the time of Galileo, most people though that earth was the center of the universe

• True

• False

Astronomers think that the universe contains about 100 billion galaxies

• True

• False