Astronomy Review Part One

Galaxies are __________ from where the Big Bang occurred.

• Expanding

• Shrinking

• Not Moving

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

What is the center of the universe in the Geocentric model?

• Mars

• Neptune

• The Sun

• The Earth

What is the center of the universe in the heliocentric theory?

• Neptune

• Mars

• The Sun

• The Earth

Who discovered three (3) laws of planetary motion?

• Galileo

• Newton

• Kepler

• Ptolemy

What does the first law of Kepler state?

• The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the sun at one focus

• The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out in equal areas in equal times around the ellipse

• The length of time it takes a planet to orbit the sun is proportional to its distance from the sun.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What does the second law of Kepler state?

• The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus.

• The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out in equal areas in equal time as the planets travels around the ellipse

• The length of time it takes a planet to orbit the sun is proportional to its distance from the Sun

What Galaxy does Earth reside in?

• Andromeda Galaxy

• Elliptical Galaxy

• Milky Way Galaxy

• Spiral Galaxy

________ is the turning or spinning of a body on its axis.

• Revolution

• Nutation

• Barycenter

• Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What causes day and night on Earth?

• Revolution

• Nutation

• Precession

• Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the term that refers to Earth when it is closest to the Sun?

• Perihelion

• Aphelion

• Nutation

• Barycenter