Instrument used by Galileo to see craters on the moon for the first time
What is a refracting telescope?
100
causes day and night
What is the rotation of the earth?
100
A theory that many secular scientists believe started the universe. Of course they are wrong, because we know the Lord literally spoke the universe into existence, Gen. 1:1.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
100
The northern Hemisphere has the most hours of daylight.
What is the summer solstice?
100
Created leap years by adding an extra day tot he calendar every 4 years.
Who is Julius Caesar?
200
An instrument invented by Sir Isaac Newton to solve the problem of the color separation.
What is a reflecting telescope?
200
Is one of the reasons we experience the seasons.
What is the earth's revolution?
200
A unit that equals 9.46 x 10 to the 12th power KM
What is a light year?
200
The beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere.
What is the vernal equinox?
200
Adjusted the calendar so that leap years did not occur in century years, unless they were divisible by 400.
Who is Pope Gregory XIII?
300
The problem with the refracting telescope we made in class.
What is the images appeared upside down?
300
Causes the perihelion and aphelion.
What is the earth's revolution?
300
A unit of measurement that equals approx. 150 millions KM
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
300
The beginning of fall in the northern hemisphere.
What is the autumnal equinox?
300
Very little effect, the seasons occur because of the earth's tilt and the angle of the sun's rays.
What is the effect the earth's perihelion and aphelion have on Earth's seasons?
400
Interference of Earth's atmosphere in detecting electromagnetic radiation.
What is the problem that was solved by sending telescopes into space?
400
Happens about every 24 hours on earth.
What is the earth's rotation on its axis?
400
Provides evidence that earth rotates on its axis; causes the waters and winds to curve right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
The northern hemisphere has the fewest daylight hours.
What is the winter solstice?
400
Our current calendar is most like that of
What is the Romans?
500
The space telescope that was launched in 2013
What is the James Webb Space telescope?
500
Takes about 365 and 1/4 days.
What is the earth's revolution around the sun?
500
A type of electromagnetic radiation that has waves that are longer than waves of visible light
What is Infrared radiation?
500
The moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator.
What is an equinox?
500
When it is Saturday east of the International Date Line, what day is it west of the line?