EES 1.1.1

Which of the following is LARGEST

• Solar System

• Star

• Planet

• Moon

Which of the following is SMALLEST

• Solar System

• Galaxy

• Universe

Which of the following BEST describes a galaxy?

• a collection of planets and moons around a single star

• a collection of only stars

• a collection of stars and their planetary systems

Which of the following BEST describes the beginning of the Universe?

• Hubble's Law

• The Big Bang Theory

• Nebular Hypothesis

• Evolution

Which of the following is evidence that the universe is expanding?

• Redshift

• Blueshift

• Greenshift

What causes day and night to occur on Earth

• Earth revolves around the sun.

• Earth rotates on its axis.

• Earth's axis precesses.

• The sun revolves around the earth.

"The shape of a planet's orbit is an ellipse, with the sun at one focus" is...

• Kepler's 3rd Law

• Kepler's 2nd Law

• Hubble's Law

• Kepler's 1st Law

This image is an example of which of the following?

• Kepler's 1st Law

• Kepler's 2nd Law

• Kepler's 3rd Law

• Kepler's 4th Law

"Two objects in space orbit their shared center of mass." This statement describes which of the following?

• Barycenter

• Precession

• Nutation

• Kepler's 1st Law

What is the wobbling of Earth on its axis called?

• precession

• Nutation

• Rotation

• Revolution