This happens when the Southern Hemisphere is pointed towards the sun.
What is winter in the Southern Hemisphere
100
A solar day is measured with a what?
What is a watch or clock or something of those sorts.
100
What are the terrestrial planets in order?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
100
What is Olympus Mons?
What is the largest known volcano in the Solar System.
100
Explain the Nebular Theory.
What is that as graivty pulled molecules in, it created friction, which created heat, which eventually caused the cloud to ignite; the cloud spun or rotated and when some parts of the nebula flew out, they slowly became the planets.
200
Copernicus sat down and figured out what?
What is the motions of the planets.
200
The shape of Earth's revolution is a what?
What is an ellipse.
200
What are the jovian planets in order?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
200
Jupiter has 2.5 times the mass of what?
What is all the planets, moons and dwarf planets.
200
How much of the Solar System's matter is taken up by the
Sun?
What is 99.85% of it.
300
Galileo discovered what with his telescope?
What is that the moon is not smooth.
300
Describe perihelion and aphelion.
What is perihelion is where the Earth is the closest to the sun and aphelion is where Earth is the furthest from the sun.
300
What are the differences between terrestrial and jovian planets? Name 3.
What is differences in density, size, chemical makeup, rate of rotation, or atmospheres.
300
Saturn has winds that blow how fast?
What is 800 mph or 1,500 km per hour.
300
What is the heliocentric model of the universe?
What is the sun-centered universe.
400
Isaac Newton developed the law of what?
What is the law of universal gravity.
400
What is precession?
What is Earth's slight wobble.
400
How much of the Sun's light on Mercury is absorbed by the planet?
What is 94%.
400
What does Uranus do different than other planets?
What is it rotates on its side.
400
What is the geocentric model of the universe?
What is the Earth-centered universe.
500
Name 2 out of 4 of Hipparchus's achievements.
What is 1)Recorded location and movement of many stars
2)Named constellations
3)Figured out the length of a year
4)Could predict lunar eclipses
500
Describe the moon's perigee and apogee.
What is perigee is when the moon is at its closest point to Earth and apogee is when the moon is at its furthest point from Earth.
500
What is used to map the surface of Venus?
What is radar.
500
Neptune has large clouds probably made of what?
What is methane.
500
How many lunar phases are there and what are they?
What is 6 phases; New moon, waxing crescent phase, first quarter, full moon, 3rd quarter, and waning crescent phase.