Astronomers, Night Sky & Constellations

Astronomers, Night Sky & Constellations

12th Grade

58 Qs

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Astronomers, Night Sky & Constellations

Astronomers, Night Sky & Constellations

Assessment

Quiz

Science

12th Grade

Practice Problem

Easy

NGSS
MS-ESS1-1, MS-ESS1-2, MS-PS2-4

Standards-aligned

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which astronomer first applied a telescope to astronomical observation?

Ptolemy
Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
Copernicus

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Ancient Greeks believed the earth to be the center of the universe. What do we call this model?

Ptolemic System
Geocentric Universe
Heliocentric Universe
Copernican Model

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Ancient astronomers used 'epicycles' to explain...?

Retrograde Motion
Constellation Movement
Moon's Phases
Planetary Transits

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Tycho Brahe's biggest contribution to astronomy was ________________.

Accurate Observations of the stars and planets
His telescopic observations
Heliocentric Universe

His Silver/Brass Nose

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Astronomer Johannes Kepler ______________.

Published Almagest
Invented the first Radio Telescope
Suggested elliptical orbits for the planets
Was made head astronomer for the Church

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What problems did early astronomers face when trying to justify a geocentric model?

Retrograde motion of planets farther out than the Earth
Bodies in the night sky moved from horizon to horizon making people think the Sun was the center
No observations of bodies in the night sky were observable to make any logical conclusions about celestial orbits
The lack of evidence for stellar parallax

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Copernicus is attributed with coming up with what model of the solar system?

geocentric

heliocentric

geo-heliocentric

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