Space Through Our Eyes 1
Space Through Our Eyes 2
Earth in Space 1
Earth in Space 2
The Moon
100
How do stars move in the celestial sphere model?
What is they don't move. In reality, some stars are moving towards other stars, while others are moving apart.
100
There are 88 of these unique regions in the sky.
What are constellations?
100
90 deg. S latitude
What is the latitude of the South Pole?
100
The cause of the angle of sun increasing and decreasing during the year changing the temperature of the air.
What is Earth revolving in orbit and having a tilted axis?
100
This takes 27.3 days.
What is the moon's orbit (revolution) around Earth?
200
This is a specific region of the sky.
What is a constellation?
200
Only 1/2 of this can be seen at any given time.
What is the celestial sphere?
200
23.5 deg. S to 23.5 deg. N latitudes
What are the latitude boundries for the tropics?
200
The change in the Earth's axis tilt.
What is wobble baby, wobble baby, wobble baby?
200
This force is much less (only 16.6%) than on Earth.
What is gravity?
300
The Big Dipper, The Great Dog, and Orion's Belt are examples of this.
What are examples of asterisms?
300
The two reasons why planets appear to "wander" in the night sky.
What are the planets are orbiting the sun and the Earth is also orbiting the sun?
300
66.5 deg. to 90 deg. N latitude and 66.5 deg. to 90 deg. S latitude.
What are the latitudes for the Arctic circle and the Antarctic circle
300
The cause between greater differences in seasons and eventually affecting the world's climate.
What are changes in Earth's axis tilt?
300
This is made up of crushed rock like on Earth but does not contain any living (organic) matter.
What is regolith? (moon soil)
400
In this model of the universe, the sun and the planets revolve around the Earth.
What is the celestial sphere model?
400
Earth rotating on it's axis and Earth orbiting the sun cause this.
What are daily apparent motion and seasonal apparent motion?
400
This day has the least amount of daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is winter solstice
400
This is how Earth's orbit changes over time.
What is become more or less elliptical
400
This is the affect of the moon orbiting Earth at the same rate it rotates on it's axis.
What is we always see the same side of the moon facing us?
500
Daily and apparent are two types of this.
What are types of apparent motion of stars and planets?
500
What the distance to stars are measure in.
What are light years? (9.5 trillion km in one year.)
500
Rotating and revolving.
What are the two ways that Earth moves in space?
500
Tilt, wobble, orbit, rotation rate
What are the four ways that Earth's motion is changing?
500
This is defined as the length of time from full moon phase to full moon phase
What is the Lunar cycle? (29.5 days)
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