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Cosmos
Stars
Solar System
Locating Stars
Space Technology
100
Periods of equal day and night (fall and spring)
What is Equinox?
100
Grouping of stars that form patterns in the night sky.
What are Constellations and Asterisms?
100
Planets and Stars.
What is our Solar System made up of?
100
How high it is in the sky.
What is Altitude?
100
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newtons third law of motion?
200
Represents the shortest (Winter) and longest (Summer) periods of daylight.
What is Soltice?
200
Spiral Galaxy we are located in.
What is the Milky Way?
200
No particular path.
What shape of an orbit do Meteoroids, Meteorites, and Meteors form?
200
Compass.
What tool is used to measure Azimuth?
200
Space Shuttles, Space Stations, and Space Probe.
What are the 3 types of Space Craft?
300
Earth-Centered Universe.
What is Geocentric?
300
Planetary Nebula.
What comes after a Red Giant?
300
When it touches Earth's Surface.
When does a Meteoroid change from a Meteor to a Meteorite?
300
0-90.
What is the range that measures Altitude?
300
Telephone, TV, and Radio
What is a communication Satellite used for?
400
Sun-Centered Universe.
What is Heliocentric?
400
Red Giant.
What State in the Life cycle is our Sun at?
400
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
What are the 4 Jovial planets?
400
Name given to the very large imaginary "sphere of sky" surrounding Earth.
What is the Celestial Sphere?
400
GPS.
What is Personal Tracking used for?
500
Aristotle (supported by Euclid and Pythagoras)
Who thought this was a Earth-Centered Universe and who was he supported by?
500
Black Hole.
What is something that exerts such a strong gravitational pull that no light escapes?
500
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What is the number of kilometers in 1 Astronomical Unit?
500
Altitude.
What does an Astrolabe measure?
500
Uses lenses to collect and focus light.
What is a Refracting Telescope?