The Sun
The middle most layer of the sun
What is the core?
The dark spots on the moon are known as
What are maria?
Imaginary patterns of stars that form pictures of people or animals are known as
What are constellations?
Early Greek astronomers had a geocentric view of the world, in which this occurred:
What is the sun and moon and space revolving around earth, and earth would be the center of the solar system?
A loose collection of dust, ice, and rocky particles whose orbits are long are known as
What are comets
The first three layers of the sun, beginning with the inside:
What are core, radiation zone, convection zone?
The lighter spots on the moon are known as
What are highlands?
The latin root meaning star is
What is Stella?
Copernicus was able to work out that the planets, including earth, revolved around the sun. This is known as a ______________________model
What is heliocentric?
A belt of these revolves around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
The Sun's Atmosphere-outer three layers are these:
The 8 phases of the moon are:
1. New Moon 2. Waxing Crescent 3. First Quarter 4. Waxing Gibbous 5. Full Moon 6. Waning Gibbous 7. Third quarter 8. Waning Crescent
Stars are characterized by these 5 qualities
1. color 2. temperature 3. size 4. composition
5. brightness
The four inner planets have these three things in common:
They are small, and dense and have rocky surfaces
A chunk of rock or dust in space that sometimes enter Earth's atmosphere to create a streak of light in the sky
What is a meteor?
The sun is primarily made of these two elements:
What are hydrogen and helium?
The combined forces of the gravity of the sun and the gravity of the moon produce a difference between the consecutive low and high tides known as a
What is a spring tide?
If you are standing on earth and see two stars of equal brightness, but one is much farther away from earth, which has the greater absolute magnitude?
The one that is further away from the earth.
The four outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) have these two things in common:
They larger than Earth and some do not have solid surfaces
The brightness of stars depends on these two things
Size and temperature
Areas of gas on the suns surface that are cooler than the gases around them, and therefor give off less light are known as
What are sunspots?
The changing relative positions of the moon, earth and sun cause these 3 phenomena:
What are moon phases, eclipses and tides?
Astronomers use the apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from different places, known as _____________________ to measure the distances between stars
What is Parallax?
Jupiter has how many moons
What are 63+
What is the life cycles of a Red Supergiant?