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History of Astronomy

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what part of the world were found the first documented records of Astronomy?

a)

Mesopotamia

b)

Central America

c)

United States

d)

India

2.

Back in the past (1000 BCE), people used astronomy for

a)

Research purposes

b)

Navigation and Religious practicies

c)

Finding a way to get to Mars

d)

Communication

3.

Carl Sagan is mostly known for his

a)

Research on Mars

b)

Research and studies about the extraterrestrial life

c)

Lessons about astronomy

d)

Contribution to NASA's Sun research

4.

In what country was Carl Sagan born?

a)

United Kingdom

b)

Australia

c)

The United States of America

d)

Germany

5.

Where was Nicolaus Copernicus born?

a)

Poland

b)

Spain

c)

France

d)

Nepal

6.

Nicolaus Copernicus proposed which model?

a)

The Geocentric Model

b)

The Heliocentrism Model

c)

The Geomagnetic Model

d)

The astronomy model

7.

The geocentric model states that:

a)

The Universe is not real

b)

The Moon rotates around the Sun

c)

The Sun is the center of the Universe (or Solar System)

d)

The Earth is the center of the Universe (or Solar System)

8.

Edwin Hubble was an

a)

Astrologist

b)

Astronomer

c)

Engineer

d)

Biologist

9.

Edwin Hubble is mostly known for his research on

a)

How the Universe is expanding and the classification of galaxies

b)

When the Milky Way galaxy will hit the Andromeda Galaxy

c)

How the earth was formed

d)

The Big Bang theory and the beginning of time

10.

The Milky Way galaxy is a

a)

Barred-Spiral Galaxy

b)

Elliptical Galaxy

c)

Spiral Galaxy

d)

Lenticular Galaxy

11.

Galileo Galilei was an

a)

Italian Astrologist, and Physicist

b)

Italian Astronomer, Physicist and Engineer

c)

American biologist and painter

d)

Indian scientist who discover the expansion of the Universe

12.

What are the Galilean Moons?

a)

Europa, Io, Callisto, and Deimos

b)

Deimos, Moon, Galymede, and Io

c)

Cerestro, Ganymede, Io, and Phobos

d)

Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

13.

The Galilean Moons belong to

a)

Saturn

b)

Jupiter

c)

Mars

d)

Neptune

14.

Stephen Hawking was a cosmologist who studied

a)

Exoplanets

b)

Stars

c)

Black Holes

d)

Galaxies

15.

At what point inside a black hole you can no longer escape?

a)

Event Horizon

b)

Singularity

c)

Core

d)

White Hole