The first person to propose a heliocentric model of the universe
Who is Aristarchus?
100
The spinning of Earth on its axis
What is rotation?
100
What is Heliocentric
Sir Isaac Newton
100
What is constellations
The name for the patterns of stars in the sky
100
This model of the solar system has the planets, moons, and sun orbiting Earth.
What is geocentric?
200
After the Middle Ages, this astronomer change the model of the solar system by placing the sun at its center.
Who is Copernicus?
200
What is revolution?
Earth's motion in its path around the sun
200
What is Heliocentric
Kepler
200
What is either camera or spectrometer
What is the most common instrument on space probes (2 possible answers)
200
This model of the solar system states Earth and other planets orbit the sun.
What is heliocentric?
300
This astronomer discovered that the planets orbit the sun in oval-shaped paths called ellipses.
Who is Kepler?
300
The slow change in the direction in which Earth's axis tilts
What is precession?
300
What is Heliocentric
Copernicus
300
Kepler
He discovered that the planets orbit around the sun in an elliptical?
300
What is the law of universal gravitation
Sir Isaac Newton established this
400
This astronomer's most important contribution to astronomy was his description of the behavior of moving objects and using telescope to observe planets.
Who is Galileo?
400
The Earth movement that causes day and night
What is rotation?
400
What is geocentric
Aristotle
400
During this event,the moon moves into Earth's umbra.
What is a total lunar eclipse?
400
What is Jupiter's rotating moon system
Galileo discovered this
500
This persons formulated and tested the law of universal gravitation.