Models of the Solar System
The Planets
Other Objects in the Solar System
Stars
Telescopes
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The word planet means_______________.
What is wanderer?
100
This is the only planet known to have living things and seas.
What is Earth?
100
The streak of light we call a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
100
Type of star the sun is.
What is average, yellow star?
100
This is a tool that is used to analyze chemicals in Space by showing bands of colored light.
What is a spectroscope?
200
The earliest model of the solar system, which showed Earth as the center was made by_____________.
Who is Ptolemy?
200
This planet is the brightest object in the morning and evening sky.
What is Venus?
200
Once a meteor hits Earth it is called this.
What is a meteorite?
200
The layer of the sun that creates its energy.
What is the core?
200
Two types of optical telescopes.
What are reflecting and refracting?
300
How was Copernicus model different from the earliest model of the solar system?
What is it showed the Sun as the Center (still had circular orbits)
300
This planet is covered by thick colored bands due to atmospheric gases.
What is Jupiter?
300
These two objects in space cause Earth's tides.
What is the sun and the moon?
300
These are the 3 properties of stars.
What are color, size, and brightness ?
300
True or False: A convex lens bounces light back to the viewer an gives an upside down image.
What is False?
400
How is the modern heliocentric model of the solar system different from the earlier heliocentric models?
What is the orbit are elliptical (not circular)
400
This is the reason that planets seem to glow in the night sky
What is they reflect the sun's light?
400
Why does the sun appear so much brighter than other stars?
What is it is the closest star to Earth?
400
Stars that appear to be groups when viewed from Earth.
What are constellations?
400
Name two other types of telescopes besides optical scopes.
What are radio and infrared?
500
The model of the solar system that we used today is based on _______________________model.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
500
This planet was discovered by a telescope.
What is Neptune?
500
This is the name of a comet that only appears every 76 years.
What is Halley's comet?
500
3 types of galaxies.
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
500
How scientists keep telescopes from giving blurred images.
What is they put them on satellites, in high locations?
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