Quiz  /  Astronomy

  • 1. 
    What area of science does astronomy study?

  • Outer space
  • Life on planet Earth
  • The Earth's atmosphere
  • The human body

  • 2. 
    What invention helped scientists to get a closer look at the planets and stars?

  • Telescope
  • Telegraph
  • Telephone
  • Microscope

  • 3. 
    What scientist explained the physics of the solar system including gravity?

  • Thomas Edison
  • Isaac Newton
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Albert Einstein

  • 4. 
    What scientist described how the planets orbited the sun?

  • Isaac Newton
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Albert Einstein

  • 5. 
    What scientist made major improvements to the telescope and discovered the four major satellites of Jupiter?

  • Isaac Newton
  • Thomas Edison
  • Albert Einstein
  • Galileo Galilei

  • 6. 
    What area of astronomy studies the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets?

  • Theoretical astronomy
  • Observational astronomy
  • Solar astronomy
  • Planetary astronomy

  • 7. 
    What area of astronomy studies the Sun?

  • Observational astronomy
  • Solar astronomy
  • Theoretical astronomy
  • Planetary astronomy

  • 8. 
    What area of astronomy makes visual observations of objects in space?

  • Observational astronomy
  • Theoretical astronomy
  • Solar astronomy
  • Planetary astronomy

  • 9. 
    What area of astronomy studies the stars and how they were formed?

  • Solar astronomy
  • Theoretical astronomy
  • Observational astronomy
  • Stellar astronomy

  • 10. 
    What area of astronomy uses mathematical models to describe objects in space?

  • Theoretical astronomy
  • Observational astronomy
  • Solar astronomy
  • Planetary astronomy

  • 11. 
    What types of things do astronomers study?

  • Books and literature
  • Planets and stars
  • Animals and plants
  • History and philosophy

  • 12. 
    What did people think was the center of the universe for nearly 2000 years?

  • The Moon
  • The Earth
  • The North Star
  • The Sun

  • 13. 
    What did Galileo do that got him in trouble with the Catholic Church?

  • He invented a telescope that could see the stars
  • He argued that the planets, including the Earth, orbited around the sun
  • He said that there were moons orbiting the planet Jupiter
  • He disagreed with Copernicus

  • 14. 
    True or false: When Copernicus explained that all the planets orbited the Sun, pretty much everyone believed him.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE

  • 15. 
    What did Galileo claim was the source of the light of the Moon?

  • It was from glowing lichen that grows on the Moon
  • It was sunlight that was reflected off the surface of the Moon
  • It was from an energy source at the middle of the Moon
  • It was from still hot meteors that had crashed into the Moon

  • 16. 
    What astronomer showed that the planets did not need to orbit the sun in a perfect circle?

  • Johannes Kepler
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Galileo
  • Copernicus

  • 17. 
    What tool did Galileo greatly improve so it could be used to observe the planets?

  • The telescope
  • The microscope
  • The telegraph
  • The bifocal

  • 18. 
    What discovery did Galileo make while studying outer space?

  • All of the above
  • The moons of Jupiter
  • That the Moon was covered in craters
  • The phases of Venus

  • 19. 
    What Renaissance astronomer took many precise measurements of the planets over a long period of time and had Johannes Kepler as his student?

  • Tycho Brahe
  • Copernicus
  • Galileo
  • Ptolemy

  • 20. 
    True or false: The Renaissance was a time when many great discoveries were made in the field of astronomy.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
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