Armillary Spheres
Let there be Light…
The Scale of the Solar System
Stellar Evolution & Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Symbolism of the Armillary sphere
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early armillary spheres were used to represent this sphere
What is celestial? (Spinner00 for correct pronunciation)
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Stars are massive spheres of this
What is plasma? (Spinner00)
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A terrestrial planet
What is Mercury?/ What is Venus?/ What is Mars?/ What is Earth? (Spinner00 X 2 for all 4)
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the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram plots stars according to this
What is luminosity?/ What is temperature? (Spinner00 x 3 for both and correct pronunciation)
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an orrery
What is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons? (Spinner00 X 3 for the whole phrase)
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Name the inner planets in order from the Sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
200
Aristotle recognized patterns of stars in these
What are constellations?
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the primary unit for measuring distances within our solar system
What is astronomical?
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used by astronomers to measure the distance to nearby stars
What is parallax?
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The center of the orrery
What is the sun?
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Development may have occurred independently here
What is ancient Greece?/ What is ancient China? (Poison IV for both)
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These people had their own astronomical observations, calendars, and mythologies related to the stars
Who are the Mesopotamians?/ Who are the Chinese?/ Who are the Native Americans? (Poison IV for all 3)
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The total mass of the Solar System taken up by the Sun
What is 99.86%? (Poison IV for "percent")
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Red giants and white dwarfs come from these
What are small to medium size stars like our Sun? (Poison IV for "like our Sun")
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The instrument that is pictured here
What is orrery?(Poison IV for correct pronunciation)
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1 AU
What is 93 million miles?/ What is from the Sun to the Earth? (Match-a-Pair)
400
The ancient Egyptians used stars for this
What is navigation?/ What is tracking the seasons? (Match-a-Pair for both)
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the approximate distance from the Sun to Neptune
What is 30.1 AU?
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What part of the Milky Way am I in?
What is an outer spiral arm? (Match-a-Pair)
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the 4th Earl of Orrery
Who is Charles Boyle? (Match-a-Pair for correct pronunciation)
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Planet with two moons
What is Mars? (Bang-a-Rang)
500
Where our local galactic group is
What is the Virgo supercluster? (Bang-a-Rang for correct pronunciation)
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the tropic that sits above the horizon
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
500
a parallax angle is equal to this
What is 1 arcsecond? (Bang-a-Rang for correct pronunciation)
500
What is the Hubble Space Telescope? (Bang-a-Rang)