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Earth Science 101 Practice Test: Origin of Modern Astronomy
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Earth Science 101 Practice Test: Origin of Modern Astronomy
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1. Galileo observed several features using the telescope. Which one of the following did he NOT discover?
2. This scientist was the first to use the telescope in astronomy.
3. The true shape of the planetary orbits was discovered by ________.
4. The Earth-centered system of the universe that was accepted for nearly seventeen centuries was presented in a treatise called the Almagest that was written by ________.
5. According to the Ptolemaic (Greek) model of the universe, how many heavenly" bodies could be observed wandering along the background of stars?"
6. Who wrote the book entitled Of the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres (De Revolutionibus)?
7. Any variance in the orbit of a planet from its predicted path is referred to as ________.
8. The ________ day is the time it takes for Earth to make one complete rotation with respect to a star other than our Sun.
9. The belt of constellations through which all the planets move is called the ________.
10. In the Ptolemaic (Greek) model of the universe, the ________.
11. The first modern astronomer to propose a Sun-centered universe was ________.
12. The first successful attempt to establish the size of Earth is credited to ________.
13. Three laws of planetary motion were discovered by ________.
14. One of the discoveries which led to the modern view of the solar system was that the orbits of the planets are ________.
15. The period of time required for the Moon to complete a cycle of phases is called the ________ month.
16. This scientist determined the nature of the forces that kept the planets in their orbits.
17. The apparent westward drift" of the planets compared to the background stars is called ________."
18. The Earth-centered system of the universe that was accepted for nearly seventeen centuries was presented in a treatise called the Almagest that was written by ________.
19. The period of time required for the Moon to complete a cycle of phases is called the ________ month.
20. This scientist wrote a book that compared the Earth-centered system with the Sun-centered system entitled Dialogue of the Great World Systems.
21. The apparent path of the Sun upon the celestial sphere is called the ________.
22. The belt of constellations through which all the planets move is called the ________.
23. Three laws of planetary motion were discovered by ________.
24. The first modern astronomer to propose a Sun-centered universe was ________.

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