Astronomy
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The first person to use a telescope to study the sky was __________.
Ptolemy
Kepler
Galileo
Aristotle
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Kepler's 1st Law of Planetary Motion states that each planet's path around the Sun is in the shape of a/an:
Ellipse
Ecliptic
Circle
Rhombus
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS1-4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
While observing the planet Venus through his telescope, Galileo observed that it changed size and shape over a period of months. What conclusion did this help him come to?
The Earth is round
The Sun goes around the Earth
Venus goes around the Sun
Venus has four moons
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Geocentric models place the _______ at the center of the universe?
Sun
Moon
Earth
Stars
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
________________ developed three laws of planetary motion.
Tycho Brahe
Aristotle
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Copernicus theorized that the stars do not actually move across the sky each night. That is an illusion created by what?
Parallax
The Zodiac
The Sun revolving around the Earth
The rotation of the earth
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The second law of planetary motion has to do with the changing speeds of planets. As a planet gets closer to the sun it _________, and as it gets further away from the sun it _____________.
Speeds up, maintains constant speed
Speeds up, slows down
Slows down, speeds up
Slows down, maintains constant speed
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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4
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