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Astronomers

Authored by Melanie Weathers

Science

9th - 12th Grade

NGSS covered

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11 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who catalouged the positions of 850 stars, and founded the stellar magnitude we still use today?

Ptolemy

Copernicus

Brahe

Kepler

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who represents planetary motion through interlocking circular orbits with Earth as the center?

Hipparchus

Hevelius

Hypatia

Newton

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This person was thought to have edited book 3 of Ptolemy's Almagest, a manual on the motion of the stars and planets.

Hypatia

Galileo

Kepler

Copernicus

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Showed the sun at the center of the universe

Kepler

Copernicus

Newton

Brahe

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Shattered the belief that the Universe beyond the moon was unchanging

Hipparchus

Copernicus

Brahe

Galileo

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Constructed simple refracting telescope

Brahe

Hypatia

Newton

Galileo

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Discovered planets have elliptical orbits

Kepler

Hypatia

Brahe

Hevelius

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

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