History and Telescopes
Stars and the Sun
Comets, ASteroids, Meteors
The Planets
Galaxies
100
Who believed first in the sun centered model of the universe
Who is Copernicus
100
What type of star is the sun
What is yellow, medium
100
What is a comet
What is it is a object that orbits the sun and it is made of rock, dust, and ice- almost like a dirty snowball
100
What is one characteristic of the inner planets
What is small, dense, rocky, or terresterial
100
The Milky Way is what type of galaxy
What is a spiral galaxy
200
Who was the first to invent a telescope
Who is Galileo
200
What are the three layers of the sun's atmosphere
What is the corona, photosphere, and chromosphere
200
What is a meteroid called that reaches the thermosphere, mesosphere, and troposphere
What is a meteor
200
What is a characteristic of the outer planets
What is made of gas, large, many moons, colorful
200
A football shaped galaxy is called what?
What is an ellipitical galaxy
300
What is the two types of optical telescopes
What is reflecting and refracting
300
What are the three layers of the sun
What is the core, the radiation zone, and the convection zone
300
A meteor that reaches Earth is called
What is a meteorite
300
What planet has an axis that it almost parallel
What is Uranus
300
The Clouds of Magellan are what type of galaxy
What is an irregular galaxy
400
What is the advantage of the radio telescope
What is it can be used in all types of weather and it can be used 24 hours a day
400
What are high arching columns of gas seen from the sun called (may or may not be near a sunspot)
What is solar flares and solar prominences
400
Where would you find asteroids
What is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
400
What two planets are affected by the greenhouse effect
What is Venus and Earth
400
Spiral galaxies can be (2 answers)
What is normal or barred
500
What is the disadvantage of the radio telescope
What is it is cumbersome-large-bulky
500
What is a nebula
What is a cloud of dust that condenses to become stars
500
What is one characteristics of asteroids, comets, and meteroids
What is they all orbit the sun
500
Which planet has no atmosphere
What is Mercury
500
What is the Local Group
What is a group of 45 galaxies including the Milky Way
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