Solar System Theories
Provided a workable model of the sky and the most important objects in it
What is the geocentric theory
The fastest revolving planet due to its distance from the sun.
What is Mercury
The name of the event when inferior planets are observed to pass in front of the sun
What is transti
Astronomers designate comets that appear two or more times as______ comets. Why do we call some comets periodic comets?
What are periodic comets? Some comets are called periodic comets because they reappear ar regular, predictable intervals.
Explain retrograde motion
A planet displays retrograde motion when it appears to stop its forward motion, move backward, and then return to its forward motion. This occurs when a planet passes a slower-moving planet.
This early assumption of the heliocentric theory caused inaccuracies in many of its calculations.
What is planets moved in circular orbits.
A. Orbits in an elliptical path
B. has a rotational axis
C. revolves around the sun
D. has one or more moons
The planets that are beyond the Earth's orbit
What are superior planets
The scientific name for a shooting star
What is meteor
Which is the correct order of possible occurrence
meteoroid, meteor, meteorite
The reason certain Christian philosophers in the Middle Ages argued that the Ptolemaic model agreed with the Bible
What is it seemed to support the central importance of man and the Earth
The pair of terms that apply to the planet Mars
The two things that your protective suit would have to save you from if you were to stand on the ground on Venus
High temperature and high pressure of the environment
List and describe the groups of small solar system bodies.
Asteroids are small solar system bodies that are large enough to be seen with a telescope and usually lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Comets are small solar system objects that orbit the sun and are made in different ices. Meteoroids are similar to asteroids but are smaller.
According to Kepler's second law, planets move ______ when at their aphelian and _______when at their perihelion.
slowest, fastest
Planetary models were greatly improved by the precise and accurate observations of this astronomer
Who is Tycho Brahe
The collection of small solar system bodies that lie beyond Neptune's orbit
What is the Kuiper Belt
The most unusual feature of Uranus compared with the other planets in the solar system
What is its tilt
asteroids, comets, and meteoroids
complicated or complex
The great philosophical shift in the importance of humans in the universe that followed acceptance of the heliocentric theory became known as
What is the Copernican Revolution?
Saturn and the other gas giants are considered this kind of planet
What is Jovian planet
Describe terrestrial planets
Terrestrial planets are similar to Earth. They are close to the sun and have rocky surfaces.
The asteroid belt lies between the orbits of these two planets
Mars and Jupiter
What is an optical illusion
A superior planet's retrograde motion