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Galileo

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Galileo study?

a)

Astronomy

b)

Mathematics

c)

Literature

d)

Philosophy

2.

What did Galileo discover about Jupiter?

a)

Jupiter's spot

b)

Jupiter's 4 biggest moons

c)

Jupiter's mass

d)

He discovered Jupiter

3.

What did he observe about planets?

a)

Mars's canyon

b)

Saturn's rings

c)

The sun's sunspots

d)

Venus's phase's

4.

What theory did he go of off about the solar system?

a)

The planets revolve around the earth

b)

The planet's have parties every night!

c)

The universe started with a big bang

d)

The planets revolve around the sun

5.

When was Galileo born?

a)

May 17, 1666

b)

February 15, 1564

c)

December 4, 1931

d)

July 29, 1496

6.

How did Galileo die?

a)

Cancer

b)

Fever

c)

Old Age

d)

Ebola

7.

What part of Galileo's body is in a museum?

a)

Middle finger

b)

Big toe

c)

Hair

d)

Skull

8.

What did Galileo invent?

a)

Telescope

b)

Micrometer

c)

Scale

d)

Celatone

9.

Who's theory did Galileo follow and support?

a)

Mike Te'chary

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Issac Newton

d)

Nicolaus Copernicus

10.

What is Galileo's nickname?

a)

Jupiter's Moon Finder

b)

Telescope Technician

c)

Father of Modern Science

d)

Astronomy Master

11.

What Galileo's sentence for believing that the earth revolves around the sun?

a)

A warm fuzzy hug because HE WAS RIGHT!

b)

Death sentence

c)

Life in prison

d)

20 years of community service

12.

What is named after Galileo?

a)

A NASA spacecraft

b)

A large telescope in Florida

c)

A garden gnome

d)

A planet outside of our solar system

13.

Did Galileo have a family?

a)

Yes

b)

He had children

c)

No

d)

He had a wife no kids

14.

What did Galileo do before he was and astronomer?

a)

Priest

b)

Art teacher

c)

Doctor

d)

Poet

15.

Galileo became blind, but why?

a)

Staring at the sun for to long

b)

He was getting old so it was bound to happen

c)

When Galileo looked through the telescope it got dust in his eye's

d)

He got hit with a tennis ball really hard