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Ancient Greeks
Modern Astronomers
The Moon
Earth and Sun
Vocabulary
100
The first successful attempt to establish the size of earth is credited to___________
What is: Eratosthenes
100
who developed a model of the solar system with the sun in the center
What is: Copernicus
100
soil like layers of igneous rock, glass beads, and fine lunar dust
What is: Regolith
100
The earth comes between the moon and sun
What is: Lunar eclipse
100
spinning of a body on its axis
What is: rotation
200
The proposal that contends that Earth is in the center of the universe
What is: Geocentric
200
Discovered three laws of planitary motion
What is: Kepler
200
Long channels similar to valleys or trenches.
What is: rilles
200
The moon becomes between the Earth and sun
What is: solar eclipse
200
Motion of a body along a path around some point in space
What is: revolution
300
The proposal that the sun is the center of the universe
What is: Heliocentric
300
described the behavior of moving objects
What is: Galileo Galilei
300
Splash marks that radiate outwards for hundreds of kilometers.
What is: rays
300
the motions of earth
What is: rotation, revolution, and precession
300
Average distance between the earth and sun
What is: Astronomical Unit (AU)
400
True or false- Ptolemy's geocentric model was unable to account for the observed retrograde motion of the planets
What is: False
400
Made much more precise observations than previous astronomers made
What is: Tycho Brahe
400
What does the moon not have? A)heat B)regolith C)atmosphere
What is: C) Atmosphere
400
what are caused in part by the tilt of Earth's axis of rotation
What is: seasons
400
Point at which Earth is farthest from the sun
What is: Aphelion
500
According to Ptolemaic model of the universe, how many heavenly bodies could be observed wandering along the stars
What is: 7
500
Formulated and tested the law of universal gravitation
What is: Isaac Newton
500
Name the phases in which the moon evolved in from oldest to youngest
What is: Highlands ----> Maria ----> craters
500
What is the slow wobble of Earth as it rotates on its Axis
What is: Precession
500
an oval shaped path
What is: Ellipse