Ancient Astronomers

Earth, Moon,

and Sun

Planets and Our Solar

System

Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

RandomReasons for the Seasons

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Ancient Astronomers100 pts.

A theory stating that the Earth is the center of the universe, commonly believed to be true for hundreds of years.

Ancient Astronomers200 pts.

This ancient astronomer found evidence supporting the Heliocentric theory when he pointed a telescope at the sky and saw four moons orbiting Jupiter.

Ancient Astronomers300 pts.

Copernicus’s theory was not accepted when he proposed it because he placed the Sun where in his model?

Ancient Astronomers400 pts.

This man determined that the orbit of planets is the shape of an ellipse, NOT a perfect circle.

Ancient Astronomers500 pts.

This ancient astronomer created a geocentric model of our solar system that supported the current thinking of the time.

Geocentric Theory

100 pts.

Galileo

200 pts.

the center of the universe

300 pts.

Kepler

400 pts.

Ptolemy

500 pts.

Earth, Moon, and Sun100 pts.

• What is the main cause of the ocean tides?

Earth, Moon, and Sun200 pts.

• What happens during a total solar eclipse?

Earth, Moon, and Sun300 pts.

• What causes the Earth’s seasons?

Earth, Moon, and Sun400 pts.

• What is the current origin about the theory of the Moon?

Earth, Moon, and Sun500 pts.

• What causes us to see the phases of the Moon?

the gravitational pull of the Moon

100 pts.

the Moon completely covers the Sun

200 pts.

the tilt of the Earth’s axis

300 pts.

A large body struck the Earth, and part of the Earth and the large body formed the Moon

400 pts.

The relative positions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon.

500 pts.

Planets and Our Solar System100 pts.

• What is the order of the Planets, including Pluto?

Planets and Our Solar System200 pts.

• What three characteristics best describe the inner planets?

Planets and Our Solar System300 pts.

• What is located between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter?

Planets and Our Solar System400 pts.

• What is a Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite?

Planets and Our Solar System500 pts.

• How does the speed of a planet’s revolution around the Sun change as it gets farther from the Sun?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

100 pts.

Small, Dense, and Rocky.

200 pts.

the Asteroid Belt

300 pts.

Meteoroid- “mini asteroid,” small pieces of rock traveling through space.

Meteor- “meteor shower,” bright streak of light across the sky

Meteorite- “can hold it ‘RITE’ in your hand,” meteoroid that hits the ground

400 pts.

The closer a planet is to the Sun, the faster it

moves around the Sun.500 pts.

Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe100 pts.

• What is the only star in our solar system?

Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe200 pts.

• What are the three main types of galaxies?

Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe300 pts.

• What binds or holds a Galaxy together? What about a Star? A Planet?

Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe400 pts.

• What did Hubble tell us about our universe?

Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe500 pts.

• What kind of galaxy do we believe the Milky Way is?

The Sun

100 pts.

Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular

200 pts.

Gravity!

300 pts.

it’s expanding!

400 pts.

a Spiral Galaxy

500 pts.

Random- 100 pts.

• How long does it take the Moon to go through all of its phases?

Random- 200 pts.

• Where is the Kuiper Belt found?

Random- 300 pts.

• Why doesn’t earth get hit with meteorites very often?

Random- 400 pts.

• What do we call it when the lit portion of the moon seems to be increasing over a period of several days?

Random- 500 pts.

• What phase of the Moon is shown here?

29.5 days, about a month

100 pts.

Past the orbit of Neptune

200 pts.

Earth’s atmosphere causes them to break up before they hit the ground!

300 pts.

waxing.

400 pts.

500 pts.

• Waning Crescent

Reasons for the Seasons- 100 pts.

• What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?

Reasons for the Seasons- 200 pts.

• What is the cause of Earth’s seasons?

Reasons for the Seasons- 300 pts.

• Which would be hotter if you were standing in it- direct of indirect light?

Reasons for the Seasons- 400 pts.

• When the north pole is tipped toward the sun, which season are we in (in the northern hemisphere?)

Reasons for the Seasons- 500 pts.

• Explain how a tipped axis is the cause of the seasons.

23.5ᵒ

100 pts.

a tilted axis.

200 pts.

direct light is hotter (it’s more concentrated energy/heat)

300 pts.

Summer

400 pts.

A tipped axis means that different parts of the earth’s surface receive direct or indirect light at different times of the year. Sometimes, w are tipped toward the sun and so we experience

summer, other times we are tipped away from the sun and it’s winter.

500 pts.