Earth Science Chapter 23 Review 2016

The number of major planets in our solar system

Which of the following could a large moon be classified as?

Which of these planets has rings?

Also called a shooting star

Which of the following is not a characteristic of all known planets?

Jovian planets

These comets reappear at regular intervals

When a planet appears to stop and then move backward against the stars in the background

Which of these pairs of terms applies to Mars?

The largest planet

Which of the following is an optical illusion?

Which planet is 1.00 AU from the sun?

Was persecuted for criticizing the geocentric theory

Planets farther from the sun than the earth

Introduced the heliocentric model

Combined the heliocentric and geocentric theories and made accurate astronomical observations

Discovered four moons of Jupiter

Most of the asteroids are found between these two planets

Which of these were predicted to exist before they were even discovered?

Third planet from the sun

A planet not observed by Plato

The fastest revolving planet

The planet that is brighter than all the other planets

Proposed deferents and epicycles

Planets similar in size and density to the earth

Predicted a comet later named in his honor

Formulated three laws of planetary motion

What early assumption of heliocentric theory caused inaccuracies in many of its calculations?

What most of the planets are named after

Which of these planets would be least likely to be studied by an astrogeologist?

Applied gravity to planetary movement

Where a planet moves fastest