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DiS Edwin Hubble

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who got Edwin Hubble interested in astronomy?

a)

mother

b)

father

c)

grandfather

d)

uncle

2.

Hubble graduated from high school at 16 and went on to the

a)

University of Missouri.

b)

University of Chicago.

c)

University of Colorado.

d)

City University of New York.

3.

What was Hubble's PhD thesis?

a)

Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae.

b)

Of Colours

c)

Opticks

d)

The Origin of Chemical Elements

4.

Where was the observatory where Hubble made his discoveries with the Hooker telescope?

a)

Mt. Washington

b)

Mt. St. Helen's

c)

Mt. Rainier

d)

Mt. Wilson

5.

Hubble discovered that Andromeda is

a)

a nebula

b)

a galaxy

c)

a pulsar

d)

supernova

6.

The Hubble sequence

a)

groups galaxies by photographic appearance

b)

groups nebulae by photographic appearance

c)

groups the galaxies by distance

d)

groups the planets by distance

7.

What is the observation that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance?

a)

Hubble's Law

b)

Cepheid variable

c)

Slipher's Doppler Shift

d)

Hubble sequence

8.

Who first detected the red shift and interpreted it as a Doppler Shift?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

George Gamow

c)

Georges Lemaitre

d)

Vesto Slipher

9.

What was the star that Henrietta Leavitt discovered which helped Hubble realize that Andromeda is a galaxy?

a)

The Cepheid variable which has dim and bright cycles.

b)

A supergiant that explodes in a supernova.

c)

Sirius which is a main sequence star.

d)

A neutron star which is one of the densest objects in the universe.

10.

Who constructed and launched the Hubble telescope?

a)

NASA

b)

ESA

c)

neither

d)

both