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History of the Solar System
History of the Solar System
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The science that studies space and everything in it.
Astronomy
Biology
Ecology
Geology
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A super massive star will swell into a
Super giant
black dwarf
white dwarf
Red Giant
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The importance of Venus's phases is that it showed Venus was
going around the sun
Just like our moon
it wasn't important
going around Earth
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Heliocentric means
Venus Centered
Sun centered
Earth Centered
Moon centered
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Galileo noticed the planet ___________ had phases like our moon.
Earth
Mercury
Mars
Venus
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Hubble also observed that the farther away a galaxy was
The slower it is moving
the faster it is moving
it eventually stops
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the discovery of Jupiter having moons was important because it showed
Everything went around Earth
Not everything went around Earth
It was not significant.
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Hubble observed that as galaxies moved away from Earth, they
Appeard Green
Appeared Blue
Appeared white
Appeared Red
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The phase pictured below is a
quarter
full
crescent
new
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Geocentric means
moon centered
Sun centered
Venus Centered
Earth Centered
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The amount of the sunlit side we see is called a
quarter
new
full
phase
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The early Greeks believed in a _____________Solar System
Lunarcentric
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Mooncentric
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The life cycle of a star begins as cloud of dust called
black hole
supernova
dwarf
nebula
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The difference between Venu's phases and the moons phases is that Venus's phases were
larger
brighter
full phase was larger
Full phase was smaller
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Turning around a single point or axis is called
Revolution
Rotation
None of these
Axis
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Galileo noticed ______________ had moons.
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Jupiter
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A white dwarf is the remains of
Black hole
an explosion
a high mass star
a low mass star
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What is parallax?
none of these
Apparent change in position
Moving stars
Earth's rotation
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The H-R Diagram compares
Distance
Temperature
Both Temperature and Brightness
Brightness
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Copernicus was the first to call the Solar System
Heliocentric
Mooncentric
Geocentric
Venuscentric
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Galileo created the first _________ to observe objects in space.
Magnifying glass
Telescope
Camera
Microscope
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Movement of one object around another object is called
Rotation
Revolution
Sun
Axis
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The theory that states everything began from an explosion is
Big Bang
Big Move
Big Crunch