Things
. __________is the spinning of Earth on its axis, while __________ is movement of Earth around the Sun.
Rotation and Revolution
The Earth-Centered View of the Solar System
Geocentric Model
True or False Earth has seasons because Earth's axis is tilted as it revolves around the sun
True
What is in the center of a Heliocentric Solar System?
Sun
The day the Sun is highest in the sky. The solstice happens when the Northern and Southern Hemisphere is at its strongest tilt towards the sun.
Solstice
The force that attracts all objects towards each other.
Gravity
He was an ancient Greek scientist who first developed a heliocentric model.
Aristarchus
The shape of the way the planet orbit around the sun.
Elipse
A body that orbits a planet is called a_________.
Satellite
Halfway between the solstices, neither hemisphere is tilted toward the sun. The day and night are both 12 hours
Equinox
An imaginary line that passes through passes from the North Pole, through the Earth’s center, and to the South Pole.
Axis
His calculations proved that the shape of a planet’s orbit is an ellipse, not a circle.
Johannes Kepler
A streak of light made when an object burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere
Meteor
One of different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth.
Phase
The tendency of an object to resist a change in its Motion.
Inertia
The Earth's path around the sun.
Orbit
He began to observe that planets did not move in a circle around the sun.
Tycho Brahe
What is the name for the pattern or group of stars that people imagined looked like figures, objects, or animals?
constellation
The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another.
Eclipse
When the Moon is complete illumunated.
Full Moon
Every object in the universe attracts each other every other object.
Law of Universal Gravitation
He said Earth’s rotation and revolution around the sun explained stars moving.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The sun is a __________that has eight planets orbiting around it.
Star.
The darkest part of a shadow.
Umbra
When the moon is not visible with the naked eye.
New Moon