Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review

Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review

QUARTER 1

Question 1 Who designed “geoglyphs”?

Question 2 Who developed the Laws of motion?

Question 3 Who first promoted the heliocentric theory of the universe?

Question 4 Oldest astronomical time piece in existence?

Question 5 Famous for the invention of telescope?

Question 6 Telescope that covers 1/3 of the sky and collects radios waves that is sent to a receiver.

Question 7 What is the proper name for the season that occurs when the sun is the highest in the sky?

Question 8 Telescope that uses MIRRORS?

Question 9 Telescope that uses LENS?

Question 10 Tool that separates starlight into colors?

Quarter 2

Question 11 Worked in a great observatory in Europe and made accurate observations for 23 years!!!

Question 12 Estimated how large the earth is?

Question 13 Developed the 3 laws dealing with ellipses?

Question 14 Provided observational proofs that the earth is a sphere?

Question 15 List one problem with optical astronomy.

Question 16 Collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity?

Question 17 An instrument that collects electromagnetic radiation from the sky?

Question 18 • What is the apparent backward motion of planets called?

Question 19 What is the term for the furthest point from the sun?

Question 20 What causes seasons?

Halftime

Quarter 3

Question 21 Shape of the orbit around the sun?

Question 22 What causes day and night?

Question 23 What accounts for a year?

Question 24 What is the longest day of the year?

Question 25 The shortest day of the year ?

Question 26 Term for the earth to be closest to the sun?

Question 27 Described as the power or the strength of the telescope?

Question 28 The diameter of the lens or the mirrors?

Question 29 Uses 4 large telescopes and several other small telescopes?

Question 30 What season is it during the autumnal equinox?

Quarter 4

Question 31 What is the speed of the rotation at the north pole?

Question 32 What is the tilt of the earth?

Question 33 List one piece of evidence that the earth rotates.

Question 34 List another piece of evidence that the earth rotates.

Question 35 List three reasons people began watching the night sky. *Need all three for “shot”

Question 36 Which “dead guy” was placed under house arrest for publishing astronomical findings that went “against” the church?

Question 37 Which has the largest effect on eccentricity (how elliptical the shape is), the distance between the foci or length of the “string”?

Question 38 What is the equation for eccentricity? *Using e, d, and L…

Question 39 If the area of sector A of a planet around the sun is 3947 m^2, according to Kepler’s second law the area of another sector (sector B) that represents the same amount of time should be?

Question 40 What is right ascension AND what unit is it measured in? *Need both correct to get the “shot”

GAME OVER!!!

Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review