This scientist was the first to have a heliocentric view.
Who is Copernicus?
100
This planet has a retrograde rotation.
What is Venus?
100
This is the bottom of the curve of the water in the graduated cylinder where you read the measurement from.
What is the meniscus?
100
This causes the sun to rise and set.
What is the earth's rotation?
100
Which unit is not in metric:
A. meter
B. cubic centimeters (cm3)
C. liters
D. feet
What is D- feet?
200
These two astronomers had a geocentric view.
Who are Aristotle & Ptolemy?
200
This planet has a giant storm biger than the Earth.
What is Jupiter?
200
These stay the same for the entire experiment.
What are constants?
200
This is the shortest day of the year.
What is the winter solstice?
200
We use this to measure the mass of an object.
What is a triple beam balance?
300
This scientist discovered that the planets orbit in ellipses.
Who is Kepler?
300
This planet has oxygen in its atmosphere.
What is Earth?
300
This is the part of the scientific method where the scientist makes a prediction about his or her experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This depends on how big objects in space are and how far apart they are - and it attracts them.
What is gravity?
300
This is how much the earth is tilted on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
This view believes that the sun is the center of the solar system
What is heliocentric?
400
These planets are the farthest apart in our solar system
What are Mercury and Neptune?
400
In an experiment, a girl uses conditioner on half of her hair and plain water on the other half. She measures how long her hair grows once a week every week. This is the dependent variable.
What is how long her hair grows?
400
This moon phase happens as the moon is just getting smaller after the full moon.
What is a waning gibbous?
400
In a scale model, 1 cm = 1000 miles in diameter. This planet is 5 cm across. This is its real life size.
What is 5000 miles across?
500
This scientist used this instrument to view the moons around Jupiter and the detail (like craters) on the moon.
Who is Galileo and a telescope?
500
This planet makes it own light.
What is: no planet! Trick question - the only light in our solar system comes from the sun - the planets and moons just reflect it!
500
Which one of these measurements is both accurate and precise to measure how long a worm is?
A. 3 gm
B. 5.4 mL
C. 6.2 cm
D. 4000 cm
What is C?
500
This season happens when the Northern Hemisphere of the earth is tilted the closest to the sun.
What is summer?
500
This is based on prior knowledge and and includes words like because or must be.