Lesson 1
What constellation can you see year-round?
Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Draco, Camelopardalis, Crux, or Carina
What law states that: When one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal force on the first object in the opposite direction?
Newton's Third Law of Gravity
What is the mathematical relationship between the measurements or distances in a model and the actual measurements or distances of an object or system?
Scale
What is an instrument that collects and concentrates light from distant objects to make the objects appear larger or brighter?
Telescope
What is the boiling point of water in Celsius?
100 degrees
What do you call a model that is Earth-centered?
Geocentric
What law states that: Unless acted on by an unbalanced force, an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest.
Newton's First Law of Gravity
Astronomers often measure distances in?
Light-years
What is the path that a particular object follows as it travels around another body in space?
Orbit
What was Mr. Lagge's best event in track?
Triple Jump
What do you call a model that is Sun-centered?
Heliocentric
What law states that: When an unbalanced force acts on an object, the object accelerates. Its acceleration is equal to the force on the object divided by its mass?
Newton's Second Law of Gravity
What was NASA’s first exploratory data collection mission that was specifically designed to find Earth-sized planets outside of the solar system?
Kepler Mission
What is the apparent shift in position of an object when it is viewed from different points?
Parallax
What type of rock forms from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava?
Igneous Rock
Who created the first model of the solar system?
Aristotle
What law states that: all matter attracts all other matter, meaning an attractive force exists between all objects
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
Who was the first person to observe the Milky Way through a telescope?
Galileo Galilei
What is a large collection of stars, gas, and dust that is held together by gravity?
Galaxy
What's Mr. Lagge's favorite ice cream flavor?
Bunny Tracks
The four inner planets are referred to as ___________ planets
Terrestrial
The cloud from which the planets and sun formed is now known as?
Solar Nebula
Astronomer Edwin Hubble used what was then the largest telescope in the world to photograph a fuzzy light source called?
Andromeda
What a small body of ice, rock, and dust that follows an elliptical orbit around the sun and that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun?
Comet
What is the basic unit of life?
Cell