History of Astronomy, Stars and Galaxies Review

Galileo Galilei invented the telescope.

• True

• False

An equinox is the time of year when day and night are of ________ length.

• equal

• different

• changing

• erratic

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Who invented the telescope?

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• the Egyptians

• someone else

A heliocentric view believes everything revolves around the:

• sun

• earth

• universe

• moon

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Ptolemy's model of the Solar System was called the _________ theory.

• Geocentric

• Correct

• Earth-king

• Suncentric

In Greek, "GEO" means...

• Moon

• Earth

• Sun

• Planets

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Copernicus found evidence that the ________ revolved around the __________.

• Earth revolved around the Sun

• Moon revolved around the Sun

• Sun revolved around the Moon

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Johannes Kepler was an assistant to ____

• Galileo Galilei

• Tycho Brahe

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Copernicus

Kepler determined the shapes of planetary orbits to be...

• Circles

• Ellipses

• Triangles

• Spirals

How long ago was the Big Bang

• 13.8 million years

• 13.8 billion years

• 13.8 thousand years

• 5,000 years ago

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