Unit 1
What is the most basic requirement of a scientific hypothesis?
It has to be testable in an experiment🔬
A large cloud of Gas and dust in interstellar space where stars are born
Nebula🌌
Known as the “Father of observational astronomy”, known for discovering, the craters and mountains on the moon, the phases of Venus, Juipiter’s moons, rings of Saturn, and the stars of the Milky Way
Galileo👨🏼🎨
A________ is a loop of relatively cool gas that extends above the photosphere
Prominence 🌄
A______ is the periodic rise and fall of the oceans and other large bodies if water
Tide🌊
_________ is the study of the natural world.
SCIENCE🧪
The distance that light can travel in one year
Lightyear🌠
The cloud of gas and dust from which our solar system formed
Solar Nebula💫
The layer of the sun where energy is produced
Core⚡️
A natural or artifical body that revolves around the celestial body that is greater in mass
Satellite🛰️
You must use this, otherwise how would we communicate with the rest of the world?
You must use METRIC📏
The hot, dense core of matter that remains from the collapse of a low-mass star
White Dwarf⭐️
Small bodies that formed from the planets
Planetesimals🪐
The layer of the sun where energy is transferred away from the core by radation
Radiactive Zone📡
The force of__________ keeps the Earth and all the ther planets in orbit around the sun, it also keeps the moon in. orbit around the sun
Gravity🌎
This is what you compare your results to
Control🧫
A small, incredible dense ball of closely packed neutrons
Neutron star✨
The path a body follows as it travels around another body in space
Orbit🚀
The process where two or more low-mass atomic nuclei fuse to form another, heavier nucleus
Nuclear Fusion☢️
Characterized by a pattern of temperature and other wheather trends
Seasons❄️
A working model that engineers use to test a design
A Protoype⚙️
The collapse of the core of a high mass star causes a _______ ______ throwing it’s outer layers into space in a gigantic explosion
Super Nova💥
The measure of the stars brightness as seen from Earth
Apparent Magnitude🧲
the layer on the sun where energy escapes into space
Photosphere🌅
Tides that have the largest daily tidal range
Spring tides🏝️