Quiz 14

This is a theory of the origin and existence of the universe

• Cosmoism

• Cosmogony

• Spaceism

• Univerism

These people believed that the universe was created by the Goddess Nut was a giant woman whose star-studded body spanned the sky. She was believed to eat the Sun every day and give birth to it every dawn

• Ancient Egyptians

• Mesoamericans

• Middle Age Europeans

• Ancient Chinese

These people believed that the Earth divided the Universe as a flat surface by the middle. Above there were several skies and below the underworld.

• Ancient Egyptians

• Mesoamericans

• Middle Age Europeans

• Ancient Chinese

These people believed that the Earth was located in the middle of the Universe. The Sun, the Moon, planets and starts revolved around it.

• Ancient Egyptians

• Middle Aged Europeans

• Ancient Chinese

This man published a book that stated that the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of Copernicus was correct

• William Herschel

• Galileo

• Edwin Hubble

• Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

This man was the first to map the Milky Way

• William Herschel

• Galileo

• Edwin Hubble

• Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

This man showed that spiral nebulae are galaxies, huge collections of stars far from the Milky Way

• Galileo

• William Herschel

• Edwin Hubble

• Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

These men made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star similar to the sun

• William Herschel

• Galileo

• Edwin Hubble

• Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

This university discovered there are at least 100 billion planets just in the Milky Way, at least one planet per star

• Harvard University

• University of California Berkeley

• Princeton University

• California Institute of Technology