Scientists
This Polish astronomer proposed that the Earth rotated and revolved around the Sun in a perfect circle.
Who is Copernicus?
How many days make up the Moon's cycle?
What is 29.5 days?
What is a body that orbits a planet?
What is a satellite?
What is Halley's Comet?
What is the name for the very darkest part of the shadow where light from the Sun is completely blocked?
What is an umbra?
This Italian scientist convinced others that heliocentric was not correct with his better telescope, phases of Venus, and moons of Jupiter.
Who is Galileo?
What side of the Moon is illuminated during the waxing phases of the Moon?
What is the right side?
What is a giant ball of superheated gas or plasma composed of hydrogen and helium?
What is a star?
What is a pattern or group of stars that people imagine represents a figure, animal, or object?
What is a constellation?
What is the area of the shadow where the Sun is only partially blocked?
What is the penumbra?
This Greek philosopher was a believer in the geocentric theory.
Who is Aristotle?
The dark-colored areas on the Moon that are low, flat plains of lava.
What are marias?
What is an object that orbits the Sun, has become rounded by gravity and has cleared it own orbit.
What is a planet?
What term was used to describe an Earth-centered universe?
What is the rise and fall of the ocean every 12.5 hours called?
What are tides?
The 2 scientists that worked together to propose that the Earth rotated and revolved around the Sun in an elliptical orbit.
Who are Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler?
What phase of the moon occurs when the side of the Moon facing Earth is dark and the opposite side faces the Sun?
What is a New Moon?
What is a streak of light produced when a small piece of rock or ice, burns up when entering Earth's atmosphere?
What term refers to a Sun-centered universe, like we live in?
What is heliocentric?
Which tide has the least difference between consecutive high and low tides?
What is a neap tide?
The Greek astronomer that followed Aristotle to follow the geocentric model of Earth.
Who is Ptolemy?
What 2 phases occur when the Moon is 1/2 lit and 1/2 dark?
What are the 1st and 3rd quarters?
What is a cold mixture of dust and ice that develops a long trail of light as it approaches the Sun?
What is a comet?
What is the imaginary line that passes from the North Pole through Earth's center, to the South Pole called?
What is an axis?
Which tide, occurring during a new or full moon when gravitational pulls from both sides make the most difference in high and low tides?
What is a spring tide?