Astronomy - Multiple Choice Test
Quiz
In ancient Greece and Rome people
- planted crops and held events depending on how the stars and planets moved.
- used simple telescopes to view objects in the sky.
- were able to explain how gravity worked.
- already knew that the sun was the center of the solar system.
The Italian astronomer Galileo
- was the first to explore space with a telescope.
- showed how planets travelled around the sun in elliptical orbits.
- claimed that everything revolved around the Earth.
- found out that stars were arranged in patterns that looked like animals.
The discovery of the telescope allowed astronomers
- to find the distant planets of our solar system.
- to see the dark side of the moon.
- to observe planets and stars outside the solar system.
- to measure the distance between objects in light years.
An asteroid belt moves around the sun
- between Mars and Jupiter
- between Earth and Venus
- between Earth and the moon
- between Earth and Mars
The Hubble Space Telescope
- orbits high above the Earth's surface.
- is the most powerful telescope on land.
- can only see images that are not so far away.
- can simulate movements of planets.
The nearest star, apart from our sun,
- is four light years away from Earth.
- is 6 trillion miles away.
- has a diameter of 100,000 light years.
- cannot be seen by powerful telescopes.
Astronomers use computers
- to simulate movements of comets and other objects in space
- to examine rocks on the moon's surface.
- to find stars in other solar systems.
- to predict how far astronauts can travel in space.