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What does Geocentric mean?
Earth Centered
What kind of sun is our sun considered?
Main sequence
What TWO major differences re there between the darker area of sunspots and the lighter colored area that surrounds the sunspots.
They are cooler in temperature and have a lot of magnetic energy.
What are the TWO types of energy coming from the top 2 layers of the sun?
Convection and radiation
What is the name of Mr. Schiller's dog?
Koda
What does Heliocentric mean?
Sun centered
What Color are the hottest stars?
Blue
Which has the greatest gravitational force pulling galaxies together?
a) mass of the stars and amount of cosmic background radiation
b) mass of all the stars and the distance between the two galaxies
c) ages of the stars and amount of cosmic background radiation
d) ages of the stars and the distance between the two galaxies
Arrange these seven words in the most logical hierarchical form: organ system, cells, tissue, atoms, molecules, organs, organism
atoms, molecules, cells, tissue, organs, organ system, organism
Where did Mr. Schiller go to College?
USF
What is the definition of a community?
What color are the coolest stars?
Red
The Andromeda Galaxy has a shape that is similar to the Milky Way Galaxy. The shape of the Andromeda Galaxy is best described as
a) elliptical and is the only other galaxy in the universe
b) elliptical and is one of the billions of other galaxies in the universe
c) spiral and is the only other galaxy in the universe
d) spiral and is one of billions of other galaxies in the universe
There are 8 levels of
hierarchy in the Linnaean Classification
System. The least specific level of
Classification has already been labeled
(DOMAIN) at the top of the inverted pyramid.
Arrange the remaining Seven classification
layers with the most specific classification
at the bottom layer.
SPECIES ORDER KINGDOM GENUS
PHYLUM FAMILY CLASS
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What is Mr. Schiller's favorite class period?
7th
Which variable is the one the changes, or is manipulated in an experiment?
Independent variable
Which star type has a surface temperature of 400k and a luminosity 1000 times greater than the sun?
Giant
Classify these celestial objects in order from smallest to largest: planet, star, universe, galaxy, moon, solar system
moon, planet, star, solar system, galaxy universe
An AU is the distance between what TWO celestial objects?
The sun and the earth
What is Mr. Schiller's second job?
Dog bar
Who won the grammy for best country album this year?
Beyonce
Describe the luminosity (brightness) and surface temperature of a star in the bottom left on an HR diagram.
Dim and extremely hot
What happens to the rotational speed of the sun as you get closer to the poles and further away from the center?
The rotational speed slows down
The Earth’s average distance from the Sun is 93,000,000 miles. The average distance of Neptune from the Sun is 2,811,000,000 miles. The size of these distance measurements within our solar system gets hard to comprehend so astronomers created the Astronomical Unit (AU). This is the distance from Earths center to the Sun’s center! So, 93 million miles = 1AU. This makes the distance from the Sun to Neptune = 30.2 AU’s. We can conceptualize 1AU to 30 AU’s better than we can 93,000,000 miles to 2,811,000,000 miles! As astronomers began to gather data about the distances to other stars and galaxies, it became clear that an even an AU was way too small to use as a distance measurement to measure these vast (huge) distances. What distance unit did astronomers develop to help describe the great distances to other stars and galaxies?
Light year
How many deer did Mr. Schiller harvest this year?
2