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Vocabulary
Science Concepts
Earth's atmosphere
Big Bang Theory
Vocabulary
100
A large hot ball of gases that gives off its own light
What is a star?
100
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy
What is a spiral galaxy?
100
Name one gas that makes up the Earth's atmosphere. Hint: Begins with O
What is oxygen?
100
What is Sheldon's famous catchphrase?
What is BAZINGA!
100
The brightness of a star
What is magnitude?
200
A ball of rock and ice that orbits the sun
What is a comet?
200
Name a way to find a star in the night sky
What is look for its constellation?
200
Name the other element that makes up the Earth's atmophere? Hint: Begins with N
What is Nitrogen?
200
True or False: The Universe has been expanding ever since the BIG BANG.
What is TRUE?
200
A cloud of gas and dust in space
What is a nebula?
300
An extremely bright, extremely distant, high energy source
What is a quasar?
300
In order to see a comet, which of the following must be true: The moon forms a cloud around it that reflects sunlight or The sun's heat helps form a cloud around it that reflects sunlight
What is The sun's heat helps form a cloud around it that reflects sunlight
300
Name 1 special thing about the Earth's atmosphere that makes it different from other planets.
What is it supports life?
300
This famous theory suggests that the Universe began as a very small compressed dense ball. All matter was compacted in this ball at high temperature and pressure. It eventually exploded.
What is the BIG BANG THEORY? **Be sure you can explain this for the test**
300
What is a star that explodes?
What is a supernova?
400
Famous video game from the 1980s
What is Asteroid?
400
Scientists suggest that asteroids come from where?
What is material that never combined to form a planet?
400
What role do plants play in the Earth's atmosphere?
What is plants release energy (photosynthesis) which in turn supports all life on Earth?
400
True or False: The Big Bang Theory suggests that all matter in space began as a dense compact ball that eventually exploded. The Universe has been expanding ever since this explosion.
What is TRUE?
400
The band of colors made when white light is broken up
What is spectrum?
500
A rocky metallic object that orbits the sun
What is an asteroid?
500
Choose the one feature that Mars and Earth share: -similar mountain ranges -same period of rotation
What is same period of rotation?
500
Name 3 things that are special about Earth's atmosphere.
What is : -it is composed of gases Nitrogen and Oxygen -it supports life -plants release energy through photosynthesis, which supports life on earth
500
True or False: Light from cities has no affect on an astronomers ability to see stars.
What is FALSE? Astronomers need to go to remote locations to study the night time sky. Lights also cast a haze in the sky making it difficult for astronomers to see stars.
500
The apparent shift in an object's location when viewed from two positions (Remember the experiment when we looked at a pencil and closed each eye)
What is parallax?