Earth and Space Exam 2

Scientist

100

This Scientist helped improve the Telescope

Galileo Galilei

Side note* this question is worth 400 points :) Maybe you'll pick a smaller number next time:)

200

This Scientist invented the reflecting telescope

Issac Newton

300

Used the telescope to prove the Universe is expanding 

Edwin Hubble

450

Studied stars to measure Cosmic distances

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

1000

Designed Powerful Observatory 

George Ellery Hale 

Telescopes

100

Made the first telescope 

Hans Lippershey

200

is essentially a tube with a lens

Refracting telescope 

300

Uses mirrors to reflect light internally 

reflecting teloscope

450

Largest telescope ever launched?

James Webb Space Telescope

1000

Hardest planet to see with a telescope 

Mercury 

Celestials

100

you can see this at night in the sky

stars 

200

Are recognizable star patterns named and cataloged by astronomers.

Constellations

300

How many planets are there

8

450

How many moons does Jupiter have 

95 moons 

1000

Where are stars born

Eagle Nubula

Ancient times

100

Thought we were a geocentric universe 

Greeks

200

Realized we were Heliocentric

Astronomers 

300

With surface temperatures reaching up to 872°F (467°C), this planet is the hottest in the solar system—even though it's not the closest to the Sun.

What is Venus?

450

This planet’s moon, Triton, orbits in a retrograde direction, suggesting it was likely captured from the Kuiper Belt rather than forming alongside its host planet.

What is Neptune?

1000

This planet takes longer to complete one full rotation on its axis than it does to orbit the Sun, making a "day" on this world longer than its "year."

What is Venus

Riddles

100

I rise in the east and set in the west,
Providing warmth, I'm at my best.
Planets dance around my light,
Without me, there is no sight.

the sun

200

I change my shape, but I don’t grow,
Tugging at oceans to make them flow.
You see me glowing in the night,
Though I don’t have my own light.

the moon

300

I wear a crown, but I’m no king,
Made of ice and dust, a glittering ring.
Though I am light, I will not float,
My largest moon is named for a boat.

saturn 

450

I was here before the first sunrise,
Yet I have no form for eyes to prize.
I stretch and pull, yet make no sound,
Shaping worlds that spin around.
I’m empty, yet I hold it all

Gravity 

1000

I have no surface, yet I shape the stars,
My presence bends light from afar.
I hold the key to time’s slow creep,

Black hole