Course Overview
Intro to Astronomy
Intro Vocab
Big Bang Vocab
Science
100
Your current science teacher.
Who is Mr. Cavanaugh?
100
This is how long humans have been gazing up at the stars.
What is millennia (thousands of years)?
100
A group of things working together.
What is a system?
100
Everything, all matter, all time, all space, all energy
What is the universe?
100
Using your senses to interpret the world around you.
What is observation?
200
The amount of points you can receive on a summative re-take.
What is half?
200
A device used to study things that are extremely far away from Earth.
What is a telescope?
200
Quantitative measure of hotness or coolness of something.
What is temperature?
200
Theory of how the universe began
What is the Big Bang?
200
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
300
The study of stars, planets, moons, galaxies, etc
What is astronomy?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!
The two biggests challenges astronomers face when using ground based telescopes.
What is atmospheric disruption and rotation of the Earth?
300
Electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye.
What is light?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Explain how a galaxy is different than a solar system.
What is galaxies are wayyyy bigger and have billions of solar systems. A single solar system is typically just one star with many planets.
300
Relative size of things that shows a mathematical comparision.
What is a scale?
400
A possible hypothesis that explains nature and has been tested a lot.
What is scientific theory?
400
13.8 Billion Years.
What is the age of the universe?
400
Simplest form of all matter.
What is an element?
400
Physical evidence to support the Big Bang theory that was accidentally discovered in the 1960s.
What is cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)
400
The difference between 1 billion and 146 million.
What is 854 million or 0.854 billion
500
Statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict natural phenomena.
What is a scientific Law?
500
Theses types of electromagnetic rays can be seen by advanced telescopes but not human eyes.
What are UV, X-Rays, Gamma Rays, Microwaves, or Radio waves.
500
The sum of all parts divided by how many parts there are.
What is the average?
500
The first two elements made in our universe, how all matter started as.
What is hydrogen and helium?
500
About 6 trillion miles. (5.88 to be more accurate).
What is a light year?