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Ancient Astronomers
Earth, Moon, and Sun
Planets and Our
Solar System
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
Random
Reasons
for the Seasons
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Ancient Astronomers
100 pts.
A theory stating that the Earth is the center of the universe, commonly believed to be true for hundreds of years.Slide3
Ancient Astronomers
200 pts.
This ancient astronomer found evidence supporting the Heliocentric theory when he pointed a telescope at the sky and saw four moons orbiting Jupiter.Slide4
Ancient Astronomers
300 pts.
Copernicus’s theory was not accepted when he proposed it because he placed the Sun where in his model?Slide5
Ancient Astronomers
400 pts.
This man determined that the orbit of planets is the shape of an ellipse, NOT a perfect circle.Slide6
Ancient Astronomers
500 pts.
This ancient astronomer created a geocentric model of our solar system that supported the current thinking of the time. Slide7
Geocentric Theory
100 pts.Slide8
Galileo
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00 pts.Slide9
the center of the universe
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00 pts.Slide10
Kepler
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00 pts.Slide11
Ptolemy
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00 pts.Slide12
Earth, Moon, and Sun
100 pts.
What is the main cause of the ocean tides?Slide13
Earth, Moon, and Sun
200 pts.
What happens during a total solar eclipse?Slide14
Earth, Moon, and Sun
300 pts.
What causes the Earth’s seasons?Slide15
Earth, Moon, and Sun
400 pts.
What is the current origin about the theory of the Moon?Slide16
Earth, Moon, and Sun
500 pts.
What causes us to see the phases of the Moon?Slide17
the gravitational pull of the Moon
100 pts.Slide18
t
he Moon completely covers the Sun
200 pts.Slide19
the tilt of the Earth’s axis
300 pts.Slide20
A large body struck the Earth, and part of the Earth and the large body formed the Moon
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00 pts.Slide21
The relative positions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon.
500 pts.Slide22
Planets and Our Solar System
100 pts.
What is the order of the Planets, including Pluto?Slide23
Planets and Our Solar System
200 pts.
What three characteristics best describe the inner planets?Slide24
Planets and Our Solar System
300 pts.
What is located between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter?Slide25
Planets and Our Solar System
400 pts.
What is a Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite?Slide26
Planets and Our Solar System
500 pts.
How does the speed of a planet’s revolution around the Sun change as it gets farther from the Sun?Slide27
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
100 pts.Slide28
Small, Dense, and Rocky.
200 pts.Slide29
the Asteroid Belt
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00 pts.Slide30
Meteor
oid
- “mini asteroid,” small pieces of rock traveling through space.
Meteor-
“met
eor
shower,” bright streak of light across the sky
Meteo
rite
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“can hold it ‘
RITE
’
in your hand,” meteoroid that hits the ground
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00 pts.Slide31
The
closer
a planet is to the Sun, the faster it moves around the Sun.500 pts.Slide32
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
100 pts.
What is the only star in our solar system?Slide33
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
200 pts.
What are the three main types of galaxies? Slide34
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
300 pts.
What binds or holds a Galaxy together? What about a Star? A Planet?Slide35
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
400 pts.
What did Hubble tell us about our universe?Slide36
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
500 pts.
What kind of galaxy do we believe the Milky Way is?Slide37
The Sun
100 pts.Slide38
Spiral, Elliptical, and Irregular
200 pts.Slide39
Gravity!
300 pts. Slide40
it’s expanding!
400 pts.Slide41
a Spiral Galaxy
500 pts.Slide42
Random- 100 pts.
How long does it take the Moon to go through all of its phases?Slide43
Random- 200 pts.
Where is the Kuiper Belt found?Slide44
Random- 300 pts.
Why doesn’t earth get hit with meteorites very often?Slide45
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?Slide46
Random- 500 pts.
What phase of the Moon is shown here?Slide47
29.5 days, about a month
100 pts.Slide48
Past the orbit of Neptune
200 pts.Slide49
Earth’s atmosphere causes them to break up before they hit the ground!
300 pts. Slide50
waxing.
400 pts.Slide51
500 pts.
Waning CrescentSlide52
Reasons for the Seasons- 100 pts.
What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?Slide53
Reasons for the Seasons- 200 pts.
What is the cause of Earth’s seasons?Slide54
Reasons for the Seasons- 300 pts.
Which would be hotter if you were standing in it- direct of indirect light?Slide55
Reasons for the Seasons- 400 pts.
When the north pole is tipped toward the sun, which season are we in (in the northern hemisphere?)Slide56
Reasons for the Seasons- 500 pts.
Explain
how a tipped axis is the cause of the seasons.Slide57
23.5ᵒ
100 pts.Slide58
a tilted axis.
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direct light
is hotter (it’s more concentrated energy/heat)
300 pts.Slide60
Summer
400 pts.Slide61
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.