Earth Science Chapter 23 Review 2016

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

Most of the asteroids are found between these two planets

Also called a shooting star

Predicted a comet later named in his honor

Combined the heliocentric and geocentric theories and made accurate astronomical observations

What most of the planets are named after

These comets reappear at regular intervals

Introduced the heliocentric model

Applied gravity to planetary movement

Formulated three laws of planetary motion

Which of the following is an optical illusion?

Was persecuted for criticizing the geocentric theory

The planet that is brighter than all the other planets

Planets similar in size and density to the earth

Discovered four moons of Jupiter

The number of major planets in our solar system

The fastest revolving planet

Planets farther from the sun than the earth

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

Third planet from the sun

A planet not observed by Plato

Proposed deferents and epicycles

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

Which of these planets has rings?

Which planet is 1.00 AU from the sun?

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

Where a planet moves fastest

The largest planet

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

Jovian planets

Which of these pairs of terms applies to Mars?

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