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Astronomy

Summer Session 2011

Review Exercise on Material Presented to Date

 

Name:______________________________________________

 

Match the following questions with the possible answers provided. For example, if you believe the answer to question 1 is A then place the letter A in the space provided by question 1. This does not apply for questions 10 and 12 - answers are not provided.

 

Answers

 

A.  Galileo

D.  Aristotle

G. Geocentric Theory

M. Doppler

B.  Heliocentric Theory

E.  Galileo

H. Retrograde Motion

 

C. Copernicus

F.  Tycho Brayhe

I.  Ptolemy

 

 

Questions

 

1.  Considered the father of science.  ________ A

 

2.  He believed the planets to be animate beings.  He argued that it was not possible that they

     should accurately describe their orbits year after year if they didn’t know what they were

     doing—that is, if they had no soul attached.  _____ D

 

3.  This theory states that all heavenly bodies rotate about the Sun._____ B

 

4.  This theory states that all heavenly bodies rotate about the Earth._____ G

 

5.  He was placed under house arrest by the pope because of a book he published that included

     a discussion by 2 people. The pope believed the simpleton depicted himself (the pope). It

     proposed a system in which heavenly bodies revolve about the sun. _____ A or E

 

6.  One of the first to discuss a system in which bodies revolve about the sun. _____ C

 

7.  Proposed an extremely complicated model in which bodies move in orbits on planes that

     rotate about the earth._____ I

 

8.  Refers to the motion of planets that appear to retrace their paths - they move back and forth.

     This observation was very hard for early astronomers to explain. _____ H

 

9.  He is probably the most famous observational astronomer of the sixteenth-century, although

     is not always clear whether he is better remembered for the fact that his data provided the

     basis for the work of Jonannes Kepler or because of the more colorful aspects of his life and

     death._____ F

 

10.  The change in sound when a siren approaches you compared when it moves away from

       you is called the __________________ effect.    M