Planets
What is the 3rd planet from the Sun?
What is Earth
What is the study of celestial objects, the physical, chemical, and evolution of such objects and phenomenon that originate outside the atmosphere of earth?
Astronomy
Who recorded positions of planets and times of eclipses, and are said to have the earliest written records of astronomical observations?
Babylonians
who was credited for being the first Greek philosopher and astronomer?
Thales
What are all planets except earth named after?
Roman gods
What is the largest Planet?
What is Jupiter
What is the name of the physics of astronomy and concentrates on the behavior, properties, and motion of objects out there.
Astrophysics
Where was the “Golden Age” of early astronomy (600 B.C.-150 A.D.) centered
Greece
Who concluded the Earth was round because it always casts a curved shadow on the moon when it passed between the sun and the moon?
Aristotle
What planet is the Roman version of the Greek goddess, Aphrodite, and The Roman and Greek goddess of love, beauty and fertility?
Venus
What planet is most known for its rings?
What is Saturn
what is also referred to as planetary geology, is a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of the celestial bodies such as the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteorites.
Astrogeology
what was used to find the positions of the sun and stars.
Astrolabe
Who developed the first Solar System model, placing the planets in order from the Earth it was is now called the geocentric solar system model?
Heraclides
What planet is named for the god of war and also an agricultural guardian.
Mars
Name the gas giants.
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
What is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.
Astobiology
Who is credited with paying great attention to determining the length of the year using the sun and stars?
Egyptians
Who predicted the positions of the planets, stars and constellations were used by sailors for navigation. He also is the Father of Trigonometry.
Hipparchus
What planet was named for the Roman king of gods known as Zeus in Greek?
Jupiter
Name the Terrestrial Planets
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
What is the oldest of the physical sciences and was originally observed on cave wall drawings.
Astronomy
Who is credited with creating the basic of geometry and trigonometry?
The Greeks
Who used the information from Aristotle to measure circumference of Earth. He did this by using a stick he staked into the earth and marked the movement of the sun from two different Egyptian cities?
Eratosthenes
What planets name is equated to the Greek Cronus (the Titan father of Zeus), the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani?
Saturn