Solar System
The explanation of how the solar system formed from a cloud of dust and gas
What is the Nebular Hypothesis?
There are this many phases of the lunar cycle.
What is 8?
Kepler created this many laws
What is 3?
The earth is tilted to this degrees which is part of the reason we have seasons here on Earth.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The motion of one planet traveling around another.
What is revolution?
The earliest model of our solar system placing the EARTH at the center.
What is the Geocentric Model?
These moon phases are growing in illumination
What are waxing phases?
This law states that planets orbit the sun in this shaped path rather than a perfect circle.
What is Kepler's 1st Law: Law of Ellipses?
When it is Spring here in Oswego, IL, it is __________ in Australia.
What is Fall/Autumn?
The path a planet takes to revolve around an object such as the sun.
What is Orbit?
The revised model of our solar system placing the SUN at the center.
What is the Heliocentric Model?
These moon phases are shrinking
What are waning phases?
True or False: Planets move at a constant speed as they revolves around the sun.
What is False?
The longest day of sunlight occurring on June 21st.
What is Summer Solstice?
At this point Earth is farthest away from the Sun
What is aphelion?
This % amount of mass remains at the center of our solar systems with the Sun.
What is 99%?
When the Sun, Earth, and FULL MOON are lined up in a straight line and a shadow is casted on the Moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
What is Kepler's 2nd Law: Law of Equal Areas?
The shortest day of sunlight, taking place on December 22nd, where the sun is at its lowest point in the sky.
What is Winter Solstice?
At this point the Moon is at it's closest point to Earth in its's orbit.
What is perigee?
What was wrong about the Heliocentric Model that Johannes Kepler was able to then correct with his laws
What is the shape of Mars' orbit?
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This law states that the farther the planet is away from the sun, the longer its period of revolution is.
What is Kepler's 3rd Law: Law of Periods?
This word is used to describe days with equal hours of daylight and darkness.
What is Equinox?
It takes Earth 365.25 days to revolve around the sun once. How do we account for this quarter of a day create on our calendars?
What is a leap year?