Astronomy Review

Most scientists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following questions?

• How our planets and moons formed

• How our universe began

• How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

• How fast light travels through space

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Which planet in our solar system is closest to the Sun?

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Saturn

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Which of the following is an accurate model of how the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?

• Sun and moon orbit Earth

• Earth and moon orbit Sun

• Earth orbits the Sun and the moon orbits Earth

• Earth and sun orbit moon

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Which planet is NOT one of the "Gas Giants"?

• Uranus

• Venus

• Neptune

• Saturn

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Who was the person that contributed to and helped popularize the geocentric model?

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

Who came up with this model?

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo Galilee

• Ptolemy

Who discovered the shape of a planet's orbit is actually an ellipse?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo

Who used a telescope to prove that the Earth could not be the center of the universe?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo

A star and everything that revolves around it.

• Comet

• Universe

• Solar System

• Planet

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A group of hundreds of billions of stars held together by gravity.

• Universe

• Nebula

• Galaxy

• Solar System

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