Motion
This is how long it takes the Earth to orbit the sun
What is one year?
Day with the most sunlight during a year is known as (Northern Hemisphere)
What is summer solstice?
The amount of days it takes the moon to complete a cycle
What is 28 days?
This happens twice a year when the sun, Earth, and moon line up
What is an eclipse?
Galileo disproved this other astronomers idea that the heavens were perfect and unchanging
Who is Aristotle?
This is known as the Sun's path along the celestial sphere
What is the ecliptic?
Day with the least amount of sunlight is known as (Northern Hemisphere)
What is Winter Solstice?
This term refers to when the moon phases are growing
What is waxing?
This type of eclipse happens when the moon is full
What is a lunar eclipse?
Galileo faced great criticism and was placed under house arrest by this group
Who is the Catholic Church?
The constellation that is covered up the day you are born is known as
What is your birth sign?
This is the main reason we experience seasons
What is Earth's tilt on its axis?
This term refers to when the moon phases are shrinking
What is waning?
A model in which everything revolves around the Earth
What is a geocentric model?
Galileo is credited with being the first person to use this to observe the sky
What is the telescope?
Constellations that the sun go through in the course of the year are known as
What are zodiacal constellations?
In what month is the sun above the celestial equator
What is June?
A full moon begins to rise during this time
What is sunset?
The apparent east to west motion of the planets is known as
What is retrograde motion?
Due to his discovery of moons on this planet they are still referred to as the Galilean moons
What is Jupiter?
This effect on Earth takes roughly 26,000 years to go all the way around
What is the precession?
These two months are when the sun is on the celestial equator
What are March and September?
This moon phase comes directly after a full moon
What is waning gibbous?
This astronomer improved the geocentric model by including epicycles to explain retrograde motion
Who is Ptolemy?
This is how Galileo fully disproved the geocentric model
What are the phases of Venus?