What is sections of the sky that contain visible star patterns.
100
Who proved that other galaxies exists beside the Milky Way?
What is Edwin Hubble
100
Give one example of a radio telescope+ one example of a X-ray telescope.
What is radio telescope=VLA(Very Large Array) and X-ray telescope=Chandra X-ray Observatory.
200
What is the difference between a month and a year?
What is a month is the amount of time that the moon orbits once around the year, while a year is the amount of time for the earth to orbit once around the sun.
200
In 1852, who proved that visible light is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum?
Who is James Clerk Maxwell.
200
How many constellations are there?
What is 88 constellations.
200
Galileo was one of the 1st people to use a--------- and what did he discover using this?
What is craters and mountains on the Earth's moon, 4 of Jupiter's moons, sunspots on the sun, and the phases of Venus
200
What hemisphere is Ursa Major located in, at midnight in the spring?
What is Northern Hemisphere.
300
Where does the word month come from?
What is the moon.
300
How come radio telescopes need to be much bigger than optical telescopes?
What is radio lengths are about 1,000, 000 times longer compared to optical wavelengths.
300
True/False When the Earth revolves around the sun, the locations of the stars change from month to month.
(If false change word or words to make statement true)
What is False, and month to month, should be changed to season to season.
300
What did Newton's law of gravity explain?
What is it explained why all the planets orbit the sun.
300
What does an astrolabe do?
What is it helps describe the location of a star or planet.
400
How did people in the ancient cultures mark time?
What is they used the seasonal cycles of the stars, moons, and planets.
400
What is the list of the electromagnetic spectrum wavelengths in order from smallest to largest?
What is gamma rays, x-rays, ultra-violet rays, infrared,micro waves, and radio waves.
400
Since different civilizations had different names for the same constellations, when the Japanese saw a drum what did the Greeks see?
What is a hunter, now known as Orion.
400
Who was Tycho Brahe's assistant and did he believe in an earth centered theory or sun centered theory?
What is Johannes Kepler, and sun centered theory.
400
How many kilometers is one light-year equal to?
What is 9.46 trillion kilometers.
500
What did people in the ancient times build to study the night sky?
What is observatories.
500
What are two things that reflecting telescopes can accomplish that refracting cannot?
What is reflecting telescopes have larger mirrors so they can gather more light than refracting telescopes.
500
If you want to describe a star's location related to the Earth what do you need to use?
What is the celestial sphere.
500
What is the difference between Tycho Brahe's and Ptolemy's belief in a earth centered universe?
What is Tycho believed that sun and earth revolved around the sun and that the other planets revolved around the sun, while Ptolemy thought that everything revolved around the earth.
500
Other than in pitch and sound what does the Doppler effect occur in?