The Earth-Sun System
The Earth-Sun-Moon System
The Solar System
Stars
Galaxies and Beyond
100
The study of the universe
What is astronomy?
100
A bowl shaped hole on the surface of the moon
What is a crater?
100
orbits a planet
What is a moon
100
Constellation
What stars that form a pattern in the sky
100
Our galaxy is a ____________ galaxy
What is spiral
200
An object good for magnifying objects that are dim and dark.
What is reflecting telescope?
200
Causes tides
What is Gravity?
200
Four characteristics of Inner Planets
What is no rings, few moons, rocky surfaces, slow rotation, orbits spaced closely together, smaller, closer to sun
200
The Sun is this kind of star
What is Main-Sequence
200
Name the three types of galaxies
What is spiral, irregular, elliptical
300
Difference between Earth's revolution and Earth's orbit
What is orbit is the circle or path Earth makes around the Sun, revolution is the complete circle/path, full trip the Earth makes around the Sun
300
The moon moves in to Earth's shadow
What is lunar eclipse?
300
Pluto
What is a dwarf planet
300
Describe how a protostar forms
What is gravity brings the cloud of gas and dust from a nebula together
300
How does gravity affect galaxies?
What is gravity holds the group of stars together, the stars orbit the inner core/center
400
New York is 5 hours to the west of Dublin, Ireland. It is 11pm in NYC on a Thursday. What time and day is it in Dublin?
What is 4am on Friday
400
How the tail of a comet forms
What is comet is ball of ice and rock orbits Sun, when it comes close to Sun it melts and ice turns to gas forming a cloud/tail
400
The final stages of a stars life depends on its _________
What is mass
400
Describe what would people living on Andromeda see if they had the technology to see Earth and why
What is they would see maybe a few caveman in Africa because light takes 2.5 million years to reach Andromeda from Earth, so if they were looking now, they would actually see Earth 2.5 million years ago.
500
Earth spins _________ degrees to the _______ per _______ (unit of time).
What is 15, east, hour OR 360, east , 24 hours
500
Two properties that keep planets in orbit, and what would happen if we didn't have them
What is gravity and inertia. No gravity = planets would fly off in to space, no inertia = planets would crash in to Sun
500
Define parallax and describe how it affects what we see in the night sky on Earth
Describes the way an object seems to move when the person watching the object moves to a different place, Earth is moving so Northern Hemisphere sees different patterns of stars than Southern Hemisphere at different times of the year
500
Describe Red Shift and how it relates to the Big Bang Theory
What is Red light has longer wavelength, when astronomers observed other galaxies, they found light that was produced was red meaning galaxies are becoming further apart from each other= universe is expanding