Celestial Bodies
Early Astronomers
The Sun
The Planets
Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
100
It gives of light and heat, but is very far away.
What is a star?
100
He visualized the earth as being geocentric.
Who is Aristotle?
100
Energy emitted from the sun.
What is Solar Radiation?
100
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
What are Inner Planets?
100
Dirty snowballs that are made up of ice, rock and gas.
What are comets?
200
The direction stars move.
What is from east to west?
200
Based his model on his observations of Mars.
Who is Ptolemy?
200
The zone that earth is located.
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
200
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
What are outer planets?
200
They are mostly found between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
300
Polaris is the other name for this star.
What is the North Star?
300
Believed in a Heliocentric universe.
Who is Copernicus?
300
Slightly cooler surface areas on the sun.
What are sun spots?
300
It used to measure distances in space.
What is an Astronomical Unit?
300
A rocky chunk that floats through space.
What is a meteoroid?
400
The scientific name of these constellations are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
What is the Big Dipper and Little Dipper.
400
Was the first person to see the "heavens" through a telescope?
Who is Galileo?
400
Eruptions of gas on the sun's surface.
What are solar flares?
400
It is a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
400
It is seen or often called a Shooting Star.
What is a meteor?
500
The cyclic paths of a celestial body that are a result of gravitational forces.
What is an orbit?
500
He developed the 3 Laws of Motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
Hot energy bubbles that pop and send high energy particles.
What are solar winds?
500
Must be large enough so its gravity holds it in place.
What is a planet?
500
A famous comet that is seen every 76 years.
What is Halley's Comet?
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