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Wk 8a Astronomers Through History

Authored by Stacey Batzel

Science

6th Grade

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Wk 8a Astronomers Through History
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is known as the "Father of Modern Astronomy"?

Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

Johannes Kepler

Isaac Newton

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which astronomer proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system, where the Sun is at the center?

Ptolemy

Nicolaus Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

Albert Einstein

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which astronomer is famous for his laws of planetary motion?

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Edwin Hubble

Stephen Hawking

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, now known as the Galilean moons?

Isaac Newton

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which astronomer is known for the discovery of the law of universal gravitation?

Albert Einstein

Johannes Kepler

Isaac Newton

Tycho Brahe

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the first astronomer to use a telescope to observe the heavens?

Tycho Brahe

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is credited with the discovery of the expanding universe?

Albert Einstein

Edwin Hubble

Stephen Hawking

Carl Sagan

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