Names
He improved the telescope and discovered four of Jupiter’s moons
Who is Galileo?
Large planets with low density, many moons, far from sun
What are gas giants?
Calendar based on 354 days
What is a lunar calendar?
Telescope that uses a series of mirrors to magnify images
What is a reflecting telescope?
Belief that the Earth is the center of the universe
What is geocentric?
He was the first to say the sun is the center of the universe
Who is Copernicus?
Small, dense, rocky planets with few or no moons
What are terrestrial planets?
Calendar based on 365.242 days
What is a solar (or Gregorian) calendar?
Telescope that uses a series of lenses to magnify objects
What is a refracting telescope?
Belief that the sun is the center of the universe
What is heliocentric?
He discovered laws of planetary motion and that planets move in an elliptical orbit
Who is Johannes Kepler?
Dwarf planets are made of these two substances
What are rock and ice?
This divides daylight time into smaller units
What is a sundial?
Buildings that house large telescopes
What are observatories?
Small object broken off of asteroid or comet
What is a meteoroid?
List the five types of celestial body
What are, planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids?
Telescope created by the ESA and NASA
What is the Hubble Telescope?
Name the four terrestrial planets in order
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
This country uses a lunar calendar exclusively
What is Israel?
Telescopes that enlarge images which give off or reflect light
What are optical telescopes?
Meteor that strikes Earth’s surface
What is a meteorite?
These are the known dwarf planets
What are Pluto, Ceres, Eris and Kaylin?
Name the four gas giants in order
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
These countries use solar calendars for civic and government business and a lunar calendar for religious holidays
What are India and Muslim nations?
The three factors that bend light as it comes through the atmosphere
What are water vapor, heat, wind?
Moving cloud gas and dust gathered together
What is a nebula?