Origin of the Universe
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This ancient civilization is credited with the Zodiac.
What is Babylon?
This model marks the Earth at the center of the universe.
What is geocentric?
Claudius Ptolemy was the first to propose this model.
What is Geocentric?
The movement around a body's axis.
What is rotation?
The age of the universe
What is 13.8 billion years old?
This civilization has provided the longest continuous records of astronomy.
What is China?
What is a perfect circle?
Galileo's most notable contributions to astronomy are related to this instrument.
What is a telescope?
Earth's seasons are attributed to this feature.
Name a piece of evidence that supports the Big Bang Theory
-What is redshift?
-What is the abundance of light elements?
-What is Cosmic Background Radiation?
This civilization is credited with the creation of the solar calendar.
What is Egypt?
The shape of a planet's orbit around the Sun.
What is elliptical?
Laws proposed by Isaac Newton.
-What are the Laws of Motion?
-What is the Law of Universal Gravitation?
The reason we always see the same side of the Moon.
What is tidal locking?
This law states that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away from us.
What is Hubble's Law?
This type of motion was developed to explain the apparent retrograde motion of planets.
What are epicycles?
This was used as evidence in support of the heliocentric model.
-What is Galileo's telescope?
-What are Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion?
-What is Newton's Laws of Gravity?
Johannes Kepler is responsible for creating these laws.
What are Laws of Planetary Motion?
A word used to describe a constellation that never sets.
What is circumpolar?
Faint radiation left over from the early of the universe.
What is cosmic background radiation?
This star was critical in Egyptian astronomy.
What is Sirius?
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The first known person to propose a heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Aristarchus?
This measurement is used as the latitude of the sky.
What is declination?