Ptolemy
Galileo
Copernicus
Newton
Kepler
100
Ptolemy believed everything in the universe moves around ___________.
What is
EARTH?
100
Galileo believed the _______ moved around the _____.
What is
EARTH moved around the SUN?
100
TRUE or FALSE
Copernicus believed the sun traveled around the Earth.
FALSE
Copernicus believed that Earth is a spinning planet that travels around the sun.
100
Which viewpoint did Newton believe: Geocentric or heliocentric?
What is
Heliocentric
100
Kepler believed the planets revolved around the ________.
What is
THE SUN: heliocentric view
200
TRUE OR FALSE?
Ptolemy did not believe Earth moved.
What is
TRUE?
200
Galileo used the telescope he made to study the heavens and saw that the moon's surface was
What is
ROUGH and FULL OF CRATERS
200
Copernicus's view of the solar system is called
What is
HELIOCENTRIC VIEW: This view puts the sun at the center of our solar system.
200
Newton realized that the force that makes a pebble fall is the same force that keeps the moon traveling around Earth. This force is called
What is
GRAVITY
200
TRUE or FALSE
Kepler thought planets moved slower when they were closer to the sun.
What is
FALSE: Kepler believed planets moved faster the closer they were to the sun.
The closer a planet is to the Sun, the stronger the Sun's gravitational pull on it, and the faster the planet moves. The farther it is from the Sun, the weaker the Sun's gravitational pull, and the slower it moves in its orbit.
300
TRUE or FALSE?
Ptolemy's view of the solar system was widely accepted until the 1500s.
What is
TRUE?
300
Galileo looked through his telescope and discovered this about Jupiter
What is
4 MOONS
300
TRUE or FALSE
Although Copernicus believed the Earth traveled around the sun, he DID NOT believe the Earth was spinning.
What is
FALSE:
Copernicus believed the spinning motion of Earth is what makes the sun, the other planets, and the stars appear to move in the sky.
300
Newton is a famous scientists who was also a professor of _________ at Cambridge University.
What is
MATHEMATICS
300
An astronomer studies
What is
the SUN, MOON, STARS, PLANETS, COMETS, GAS, GALAXIES, DUST and other non-Earthly bodies and phenomena.
400
Ptolemy's view of the solar system is called
What is
GEOCENTRIC?
400
The Roman Catholic Church punished Galileo and sentenced him to house arrest for the rest of his life because
What is
HIS BELIEF THAT THE SUN WAS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE AND NOT EARTH WENT AGAINST THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE
400
Copernicus's view that the Earth was not the center of the universe was not completely true. Why?
What is
He believed the sun was the center of the universe and all the planets revolved around the sun. We know now that the sun is only the center of OUR solar system. Not the universe.
400
This image connects to Newton because
What is
Newton is said to have discovered GRAVITY when he watched an apple falling from a tree, where he connected that the apple coming from the tree and hitting the ground was due to the force of gravity.
400
This English scientist used Keplers ideas about the laws of motion to later form his own theory about the force that keeps us on Earth.
WHO IS
NEWTON? He used Kepler's ideas as a guide when he formed his ideas about gravity.
500
Ptolemy believed the sun, stars, and planets moved around Earth at different _____________.
What is
SPEEDS?
500
A major contribution Galileo made to the study of Astronomy is that
What is
he used OBSERVATIONS and EXPERIMENTS instead of philosophy and thoughts
500
Three reasons the leaders of the church disagreed with Copernicus's heliocentric model was
What is
it went against their religious beliefs
they couldn't feel Earth moving
they saw the sun, planets, and stars move in the sky
500
Newton invented a new kind of __________ and most modern versions of this still use a similar design.
What is
TELESCOPE: Newton's version used a mirror instead of several lenses and proved to be much better than earlier designs.
500
Kepler believed the planets revolved around the sun in a _______shape.
What is
OVAL or ELLIPTICAL ORBIT: This was one of Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
