ASTRONOMY FINAL Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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Astronomy
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Astronomy
ASTRONOMY FINAL Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
When it comes to our place in the solar system today, which model do we accept?
a) heliocentric
b) Ptolemaic
c) geocentric
d) Aristotelean - answera
According to the geocentric view, everything in the heavens had to go around the Earth, whi...
Which of these examples of ancient astronomy practises NOT correct?
a) Ancient Egyptians used a 365-day calendar year
b) Ancient Chinese astronomers observed many transient events like comets and supernova
(death of stars)
c) The Mayans designed a calendar based on the planet Venus
d) The Polynesians used the stars for long-distance sea navigation, to colonize new islands
e) The Stonehenge rock structure was used for tracking motions of the Sun and Moon as far back
as 3800 BCE - answer✔e
When NASA and a group of astronomers sent up a spacecraft designed to find planets orbiting
other stars, they named it after Kepler. Why was this an appropriate name?
a) Kepler was the first person to suggest how to launch rockets into space
b) Kepler used his telescope to find the first planet orbiting another star
c) Kepler figured out the rules of planetary motion, which planets in our solar system and planets
elsewhere must obey
d) Kepler was the first person to express the law of universal gravity in mathematical terms
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