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The Solar System and Some Early Astronomers

The Solar System and Some Early Astronomers. Category 1 of 1. Question: Galileo thought that _________ __________ created the tides. This shows that even someone known as “the father of modern science” can make a mistake. (p. 300). Check Your answer. Category 1 of 1. Answer:

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The Solar System and Some Early Astronomers

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  1. The Solar System and Some Early Astronomers

  2. Category 1 of 1 Question: Galileo thought that _________ __________ created the tides. This shows that even someone known as “the father of modern science” can make a mistake. (p. 300) Check Your answer

  3. Category 1 of 1 Answer: Earth’s rotation Back to the game board

  4. Category 2 of 1 Question: UlugBek’s ________ was the best in the world during his time. (p. 296) Check Your answer

  5. Category 2 of 1 Answer: observatory Back to the game board

  6. Category 3 of 1 Question: The _______ ________ is an immense spherical cloud. It surrounds the solar system and reaches about three light-years from the sun. (p. 294) Check Your answer

  7. Category 3 of 1 Answer: Oort Cloud Back to the game board

  8. Category 4 of 1 Question: The _____________ Belt is a vast region extending beyond Neptune. (p. 294) Check Your answer

  9. Category 4 of 1 Answer: Edgeworth-Kuiper Back to the game board

  10. Category 5 of 1 Question: ___________ draw close to the sun and then fly far out into space. (p. 294) Check Your answer

  11. Category 5 of 1 Answer: Comets Back to the game board

  12. Category 1 of 2 Question: Most ___________ are in a belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter. (p. 294) Check Your answer

  13. Category 1 of 2 Answer: asteroids Back to the game board

  14. Category 2 of 2 Question: On 24 August 2006 the International Astronomical Union voted to reclassify Pluto as a “___________.” (p. 293) Check Your answer

  15. Category 2 of 2 Answer: dwarf planet Back to the game board

  16. Category 3 of 2 Question: Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered _______ on 18 February 1930. For seven months he had searched for something he knew had to be there: a heavenly body that tugged on Neptune, just as Neptune tugged on Uranus. (p. 293) Check Your answer

  17. Category 3 of 2 Answer: Pluto Back to the game board

  18. Category 4 of 2 Question: Although he didn’t have a ___________, Copernicus did have other instruments to study the sky. (p. 288) Check Your answer

  19. Category 4 of 2 Answer: telescope Back to the game board

  20. Category 5 of 2 • Question: • Astronomers believed for centuries that the ________ was the center of the solar system. This belief was even part of church doctrine. (p. 286 ) Check Your answer

  21. Category 5 of 2 Answer: Earth Back to the game board

  22. Category 1 of 3 • Question: • This “Red Planet” is visible to the naked eye as a reddish dot in the sky. (p. 291) Check Your answer

  23. Category 1 of 3 Answer: Mars Back to the game board

  24. Category 2 of 3 • Question: • By far the largest planet, this gas giant has 16 known moons. (p. 291) Check Your answer

  25. Category 2 of 3 Answer: Jupiter Back to the game board

  26. Category 3 of 3 Question: This planet, the second largest in the solar system, is known as the “ringed planet.” (p. 292) Check Your answer

  27. Category 3 of 3 Answer: Saturn Back to the game board

  28. Category 4 of 3 Question: This planet, the third largest, is a ringed planet, and it spins on its side. (p. 292) Check Your answer

  29. Category 4 of 3 Answer: Uranus Back to the game board

  30. Category 5 of 3 Question: Astronomers discovered this planet after noticing that some body was exerting a gravitational tug on Uranus. (p. 293) Check Your answer

  31. Category 5 of 3 Answer: Neptune Back to the game board

  32. Category 1 of 4 Question: The largest object in the solar system. (p. 289) Check Your answer

  33. Category 1 of 4 Answer: The sun Back to the game board

  34. Category 2 of 4 Question: The smallest planet, and the one closest to the sun. (p. 289). Check Your answer

  35. Category 2 of 4 Answer: Mercury Back to the game board

  36. Category 3 of 4 Question: This planet is cloaked in a thick layer of clouds made up of water and sulfuric acid. (p. 290 Check Your answer

  37. Category 3 of 4 Answer: Venus Back to the game board

  38. Category 4 of 4 • Question: • The only planet to sustain life as far as we know. (p. 290) Check Your answer

  39. Category 4 of 4 Answer: Earth Back to the game board

  40. Category 5 of 4 Question: The gravity of this body creates the tides on Earth. (p. 290) Check Your answer

  41. Category 5 of 4 Answer: The moon Back to the game board

  42. Category 1 of 5 • Question: • Who discovered four “stars” near Jupiter and decided they were moons? (p. 299) Check Your answer

  43. Category 1 of 5 Answer: Galileo Back to the game board

  44. Category 2 of 5 Question: Which early astronomer showed that orbits of the planets weren’t perfect circles, but ellipses, or ovals? (p. 299) Check Your answer

  45. Category 2 of 5 Answer: Kepler Back to the game board

  46. Category 3 of 5 • Question: • Who was one of the first to use the modern scientific method? (p. 298) Check Your answer

  47. Category 3 of 5 Answer: Kepler Back to the game board

  48. Category 4 of 5 • Question: • Which early astronomer published the first major catalog of stars since Ptolemy’s? (p. 297) Check Your answer

  49. Category 4 of 5 Answer: Ulug Bek Back to the game board

  50. Category 5 of 5 Question: Which early astronomer is known not for his own work but for the way he combined other astronomers’ ideas? (p. 295) Check Your answer

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