Measure for Measure
Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology and Geology.
What are the physical sciences?
The smallest terrestrial planet.
What is Mercury?
These cratered, light colored regions cover about 85% of the lunar crust.
What are highland regions?
The sun's energy comes from this process.
This is where most of the 'missing' mass from the burning candle went.
What is smoke?
The testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions.
What is an experiment?
These planets are mostly gaseous, large, and rotate rapidly relative to Earth's rotation.
What are Jovian planets?
This phase precedes the first quarter moon.
What is the waxing crescent phase?
This is the diagonal group of stars in the Herzsprung-Russel diagram.
What is the Main Sequence?
A circle's circumference divided by its diameter.
What is pi?
These are the three fundamental physical quantities.
What are length, time and mass?
The Jovian planet that rotates nearly on its side and has retrograde rotation.
What is Uranus?
The approximate time between the two daily high tides.
What is 12 hours?
Dark regions on the sun that indicate strong magnetic field disturbances.
What are sunspots?
This is the number of significant digits in the answer obtained from multiplying 0.37 by 123.
What is two?
This metric prefix means one million.
This is the Kepler's law related to the speed of a revolving body.
The largest moon of Jupiter.
What is Ganymede?
On the Celestial Sphere, this is the angular distance (in hours) counter clockwise from the celestial prime meridian.
What is right ascension?
Shrinking the sun to the size of a ping-pong ball, this star is located at a roughly the distance from here to Chicago.
What is Alpha Centauri?
This can be used to convert one measurement to another.
What is a conversion factor?
This is the criterion used to disqualify Pluto as a major planet.
What is Pluto not clearing its orbit?
Astronomers believe this vast reservoir of frozen comets lies far out beyond the orbit of Pluto.
What is the Oort Cloud?
Astronomers think that one of these lies at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
What are supermassive black holes?
This is the type of telescope we used to view the sun.
What is a 10" Dobsonian reflector telescope?