Quiz 5

1. If you wanted to know the time of year, which of these would you keep track of?
a. The altitude of Polaris above the horizon.
b. The direction in which the Sun rises and sets.
c. The location of the planets in the sky.
d. The phase the Moon is in.

2. What is Stonehenge?
a. A cave where paleolitic paintings including stars were found.
b. A place in Wyoming where the Indians built a Medicine Wheel.
c. A circular structure of tall stones in Southern England.
d. A prehistoric era, during which the oldest sites were built.

3. Why is Ptolemy important in the history of Astronomy?
a. He proposed more than 2000 years ago that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
b. He was the first person who counted all the stars in the sky.
c. He was the first person who observed the stars' parallax.
d. He developed a very detailed and successful geocentric model of the solar system.

4. Which of the following did Galileo not see?
a. Dark spots on the Sun.
b. Stars in the Milky Way.
c. Moons around Jupiter.
d. Stellar parallax.

5. What is the main contribution to astronomy made by Copernicus?