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Page 1: Interactive Quiz Origins of Modern Astronomy Learning Objectives This interactive quiz will review the contributions of the astronomers addressed in.

Interactive Quiz

Origins of Modern Astronomy

Page 2: Interactive Quiz Origins of Modern Astronomy Learning Objectives This interactive quiz will review the contributions of the astronomers addressed in.

Learning Objectives• This interactive quiz will review the contributions of the astronomers

addressed in chapter 21 of your text• After reading chapter 21, you should be able to

– List the astronomical contributions of the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle, Anaxagoras, Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus and Ptolemy

– List the contributions to modern astronomy of Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Sir Isaac Newton

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Which of the following astronomers introduced the idea of retrograde motion?

• Nicolas Copernicus• Tycho Brahe• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Aristarchus

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

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You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers believed the Earth

was just another planet?• Nicolas Copernicus• Tycho Brahe• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Aristarchus

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

Page 8: Interactive Quiz Origins of Modern Astronomy Learning Objectives This interactive quiz will review the contributions of the astronomers addressed in.

You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers derived three laws of planetary motion?

• Nicolas Copernicus• Tycho Brahe• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Johannes Kepler

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

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You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers reasoned the Moon shines by reflected

sunlight?• Anaxagoras• Tycho Brahe• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Johannes Kepler

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

Page 14: Interactive Quiz Origins of Modern Astronomy Learning Objectives This interactive quiz will review the contributions of the astronomers addressed in.

You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers employed the first

successful attempt at determining the size of the Earth using simple

shadow effects?• Anaxagoras• Hipparchus• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Eratosthenes

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

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You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers was best known for

his star catalogue?

• Anaxagoras• Hipparchus• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Eratosthenes

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

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You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers discovered Jupiter’s

four largest moons?

• Anaxagoras• Galileo Galilei• Claudius Ptolemy• Aristotle• Sir Isaac Newton

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

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You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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Which of the following astronomers was the first to

provide visual evidence that the Earth was not the sole center of

motion in the universe?• Tycho Brahe • Galileo Galilei• Claudius Ptolemy• Johannes Kepler • Sir Isaac Newton

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You are INCORRECT!

• So try AGAIN!

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You are CORRECT!You are a brilliant

astrophysicist!

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You completed the QUIZ!

You are a brilliant astrophysicist!