Quiz 1

Rearrange the scientists' names of ascending life span (oldest on the left).

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Edwin Hubble

If an object is 100 light years away, it will take ____ years for the light to reach you.

When Earth is at its closest point in its orbit to the Sun, it is at its ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• perihelion
• aphelion
• eccentricity
• standard deviation

Match the following scientist with their achievement.

• Heliocentric View

• Copernicus

• Calculus

• Galileo

• The telescope

• Sir Isaac Newton

• The Theory of Everything

• Hawking

Match the following scientist with the achievement.

• The Theory of Relativity

• Copernicus

• Geocentric view

• Ptolemy

• Heliocentric view

• Einstein

• Showed proof of distant galaxies.

• Hubble

Johannes Kepler was responsible for developing

• Theory of Relativity

• 3 Laws of Planetary Motion

• Electricity

• Heliocentric view

Draw a rough orbital shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun, as well as the shape of Hailey's comet (which is similar to other comets).

Click on the Sun, Earth, and Saturn.

The Sun's movement across our sky is simply a ______ of the Earth's movement.

• refractioin

• orbit

• reflection

• who cares this is nerd stuff

The Northern Star, known as _______, moves very little in our night sky.

• Sirius

• the Sun

• Orion

• Polaris