Introduction to Astronomy

What is defined as "a body of knowledge, and also a method of how we learned that knowledge"

• religion
• history
• astronomy
• science

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Above all else, science must be _____

• true
• honest
• correct
• partly wrong

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How high is our atmosphere?

• about 1 km
• about 10 km
• about 100 km
• about 1000 km

What protects us from the onslaught of subatomic particles from the Sun?

• a gravitational field
• an electric field
• a magnetic field
• a mine field

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What is the name or our spiral galaxy?

• Andromeda
• Milky Way
• Virgo
• Triangulum

The visible Universe is _____

• expanding, faster every day
• expanding at a constant rate
• stationary
• shrinking

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For a kid, what can be very simply defined as "the study of things in the sky"?

• astrology
• meteorology
• astronomy
• geology

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Humans have been looking up at the sky _____

• for as long as we’ve been humans
• for all of recorded history
• since the Earth was born
• since the invention of the telescope

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Early farmers used patterns in the sky to determine ____

• which seeds to plant
• which fields to plow
• when to plant seeds
• how many seeds to plant

Which term means that "all the objects in the sky revolve about the Earth"?

• heliocentrism
• geocentrism
• Copernicism
• ellipticism

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