Science - Quiz 29 Solar System

Question 1

Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system of the universe

Answer 1

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 2

scientist who discovered the law of universal gravitation

Answer 2

Sir Isaac Newton

Question 3

astronomer whose book Almagest mathematically described the geocentric view of the universe

Answer 3

Ptolemy

Question 4

astronomer who discovered that the planets do not travel in circles

Answer 4

Johannes Kepler

Question 5

astronomer who discovered the phases of Venus

Answer 5

Galileo Galilei

Question 6

the symmetrical oval shape of a planet’s orbit

Answer 6

ellipse

Question 7

a planet’s closest point to the sun

Answer 7

perihelion

Question 8

why planets sometimes appear to move “backward” through the sky

Answer 8

Earth travels faster than the outer planets

Question 9

the study of God’s creation beyond our atmosphere

Answer 9

astronomy

Question 10

the sun, planets, the planets’ moons, and other smaller bodies that orbit the sun form the…

Answer 10

solar system