Ancient Cosmologies

1. What phenomena did ancient societies interpret as everything from death to smallpox and disease?

• Asteroid

• Black hole

• Comet

• Star

1. This Dutch astronomer studied the orbits of comets to learn about the Milky Way and discovered the ___ cloud.

• Kepler

• Oort

• Huygens

• van de Hulst

1. Who is credited with discovering that planets move in elliptical orbits?

• Kepler

• Galilei

• Newton

• Halley

1. In Ptolemy’s universe, the planets are put in circles called ___ attached to spheres.

• Deferents

• Ellipses

• Orbits

• Epicycles

1. Ptolemy established that ___ was the center of the universe.

• The Earth

• The sun

1. Eratosthenes calculated the ___ of the Earth.

• Circumference

• Mass

• Radius

• Volume

1. In the 3rd century BCE, Aristarchus knew the distance from the ___ to the ___.

• Moon; sun

• Earth; moon

• Earth; sun

1. Who is often referred to as the Father of Geometry?

• Archimedes

• Pythagoras

• Thales of Miletus

• Euclid