early models and astronomers planets may the force be with you shoot for the moon objects in space...
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Early Models and
Astronomers
Planets May the Force be with
you
Shoot for the Moon
Objects in
Space
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Model where planets revolve around the Earth
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Geocentric
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The moon’s crust is mainly made of these two features:
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Anorthrosites and Maria
Who proposed the Heliocentric model?
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Copernicus
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The law that describes the path of a planet that orbits the sun is called ________
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Law of Ellipses
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What astronomer said planets moved in
epicycles, which are little circles as they went
around Earth?
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Ptolemy
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What is the least dense planet that also has bands and rings made of dust and ice?
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Saturn
What is the largest planet in the solar system?
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Jupiter
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Planet who’s axis is almost parallel to its
plane of orbit
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Uranus
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What planet gets its color from large amounts of
methane?
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Uranus
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What 2 inner planets are most alike in their size and mass?
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Venus and Earth
Degree of elongation of an elliptical orbit
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Eccentricity
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The time required for a body to complete a single orbit
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Orbital Period
Force that PULLS on a body in space
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Gravity
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What is a bright streak of light that results from a meteoroid burning up in
our atomosphere?
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Meteor
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Pattern in which is appears as though the
planets are moving backward relative to the
stars
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Retrograde Motion
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The force of gravity between Earth and moon cause _____ in bodies of
water
Tides
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Dark areas on the moons surface
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Mare
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When the lighted part of the moon appears to increase, the moon
is said to be __________.
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Waxing
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This occurs when the shadow of one celestial body falls on another
celestial body
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Eclipse
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What do we call the fine, smooth dust on the moon?
regolith
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Fragments of rock that orbit the sun
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Asteroid
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Small bodies of ice, rock and dust that follows highly
elliptical orbits around the sun
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Comets
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Any part of a meteoroid that didn’t burn up when entering the Earth’s
atmosphere and reached Earth’s surface
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Meteorite
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Region that starts beyond Neptunes orbit which
contains dwarf planets and other small bodies of ice
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Kuiper Belt
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Large cloud of dust and ice believed to hold nuclei of
billions of comets and possible origin of our comets
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Oort Cloud
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