Who Was Galileo?
Galileo's Discoveries
The Telescope
Galileo's Challenges
Galileo's Legacy
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The country where Galileo was born

What is Italy

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The planet Galileo first observed using a telescope and discovered it has moons

What is Jupiter

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The material Galileo used to make the lenses for his telescope 

What is glass

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This happened because the Catholic Church didn't agree with Galileo's belief that the Earth moves around the sun

What is Galileo being put on trial

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The famous scientist that later built upon Galileo's ideas that the Earth moves around the Sun

Who was Isaac Newton

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The tool Galileo used to study the stars and planets

What is a telescope

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The discovery Galileo made about the Moon

What is the Moon has craters and mountains

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The year Galileo first used his telescope to look at the night sky

What was 1609

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The consequence Galileo had after being found guilty by the Catholic Church

What is recant his views and stay at home for the rest of his life (house arrest)

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The year Galileo died

1642

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Galileo is famous for stating the Earth revolves around this 

What is the Sun

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The observation Galileo made about the surface of the Sun

What are sunspots

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Galileo first observed this through his telescope

What is the four largest moons of Jupiter

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The theory Galileo was put on trial for by the Catholic Church

What is the heliocentric theory (that the Earth orbits the Sun)

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The idea that caused Galileo to get into trouble with the Catholic Church

What is the Earth moves around the Sun

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Galileo's discoveries challenged the teachings of this ancient Greek philosopher 

Who was Aristotle

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Galileo's discovered the Milky Way was made up of this

What are stars

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The names of Jupiter's four moons that Galileo discovered

What is Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

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This famous phrase is attributed to Galileo after his trial

What is "And yet it moves."

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Galileo did this to prove that heavier and lighter objects fall at the same speed

What is dropping them from the same height

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Galileo was one of the first scientists to use this method

What is the Scientific Method

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Galileo proved objects fall to the Earth at the same rate regardless of this attribute

What is the object's weight
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Galileo's telescope was this many times stronger than those before it

What is 20 times stronger

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Galileo supported this scientist's ideas that ultimately caused trouble with the Catholic Church

Who was Copernicus 

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The age Galileo was when he started studying at the University of Pisa

What is 17 years old

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