Astronomers
Telescopes
Mapping the Stars
Vocabulary #1
Vocabulary #2
100
What theory states that the Earth is at the center of the Universe
What is Geocentric (Ptolemaic) theory
100
What are telescopes that use lenses to gather and focus light?
What is refracting telescope.
100
What do astronomers use to organize the sky?
What is constellations
100
What is the study of the universe
What is astronomy
100
What is all of the frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation?
What is the electromagnetic spectrum
200
What theory states that the sun is at the center of the universe?
What is the Heliocentric (Copernicus's) theory
200
What is a telescope that uses a curved mirror to gather and focus light?
What is a reflecting telescope
200
What is the distance that light travels in 1 year?
What is light-year
200
What is the time required for the Earth to orbit once around the sun?
What is a year
200
What is the point in the sky directly above an observer on Earth?
What is zenith
300
Who thought that the sun and moon revolved around the Earth and that the other planets revolved around the sun?
What is Tycho Brahe
300
What type of lens is pictured?
Concave Lens
300
What observations indicate the universe expanding?
What is redshift and blueshift
300
What is a division of the year that is based on the orbit of the moon around the Earth?
What is a month
300
What is the angle between an object in the sky and the horizon?
What is altitude
400
Who stated the 3 laws of planetary motion?
What is Johannes Kepler
400
What type of lens is pictured?
Convex Lens
400
What did astronomers create as a visual representation of stars in the night sky?
Star Map
400
What is the time required for the Earth to rotate once on its axis?
What is a day
400
What is the line where the sky and the Earth appear to meet?
What is the horizon
500
Who discovered craters and mountains on Earths moon, four of Jupiter's moons, sunspots on the sun, and the phases of Venus?
What is Galileo
500
Astronomers can get more detailed images of the universe by linking what kind of telescopes together?
What is radio telescopes
500
What star did people use to navigate?
The Polaris
500
What is an instrument that collects electromagnetic radiation from the sky and concentrates it for better observation?
What is a telescope
500
A region of the sky that contains recognizable star pattern and that is used to describe the location of objects in space?
What is a constellation