E&E test

What is at the middle of a Geocentric system?

• Sun

• Neptune

• Earth

• The Universe

What is the biggest difference between the Geocentric Model and the Heliocentric Model?

• the shape of the planets' orbits

• the movement of the moon

• what is at the center of the solar system

Who used a telescope to prove that the Earth could not be the center of the universe?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Galileo

Which description is considered most accurate regarding what actually happened during the Big Bang?

• Two galaxies collided causing an immense explosion as stars crashed into one another

• All of what would become the universe was concentrated in a single small point, or singularity, which rapidly expanded into what is now stars, planets, galaxies, matter, and energy.

• All matter emerged from a massive black hole at the center of the universe.

• Parts of the sun were ripped off by massive internal explosions and were thrown into space where they cooled to become other things, like plants, comets, and other galaxies.

Most scientists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following questions?

• How our planets and moons formed

• How our universe began

• How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

• How fast light travels through space

The Sun is made of...

• Water and Ice

• Hydrogen

• Magnesium

• Hydrogen and Helium

The Sun takes up 99.8% of the Solar System

• True

• False

Sun Spots

• Throw particles into Earth's Atmosphere

• Create donuts

• Help the space probes send information

• The cooler darker parts of the Sun

The outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere is called the_______

• photosphere

• core

• corona

• radiative zone

The inner planets are also called...

• terrestrial planets
• gas giants