Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review

Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review

QUARTER 1

Question 1 Who designed “geoglyphs”? Nazca

Question 2 Who developed the Laws of motion? Newton

Question 3 Who was the first to promote the heliocentric universe? Copernicus

Question 4 Oldest astronomic time piece in existence? Stonehenge

Question 5 Famous for the invention of telescope? Galileo

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

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

Question 8 Telescope that uses MIRRORS? Reflecting Telescope

Question 9 Telescope that uses LENSES? Refracting Telescope

Question 10 Tool that separates starlight into colors? Spectroscope

Quarter 2

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

Question 12 Estimated how large the earth is? Eratosthenes

Question 13 Developed the 3 laws dealing with ellipses? Kepler

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

Question 15 List one problem with optical astronomy. Need darkness, light pollution, atmosphere interferes

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

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

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

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

Question 20 What causes seasons? Tilt

Halftime

Quarter 3

Question 21 Shape of the orbit around the sun? Ellipse

Question 22 What causes day and night? Rotation

Question 23 What accounts for a year? Revolution

Question 24 What is the longest day of the year? June 21-22 (1st day of summer)

Question 25 The shortest day of the year ? December 21-22 (1st day of winter)

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

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

Question 28 The diameter of the lens or the mirrors? Aperture

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

Question 30 What season is it during the autumnal equinox? Fall or autumn

Quarter 4

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

Question 32 What is the tilt of the earth? 23 ½ degrees

Question 33 List one piece of evidence that the earth rotates. Foucault pendulum, coriolis effect, constellations

Question 34 List another piece of evidence that the earth rotates. Answers in question #33

Question 35 List four reasons people began watching the night sky. Entertainment, time, religion, navigation

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

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

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

Question 39 If the area of sector A of a planet around the sun is 3947 m2, according to Kepler’s second law the area of another sector (sector B) that represents the same amount of time should be? 3947 m2

Question 40 What is right ascension AND what unit is it measure in? Celestial Longitude; measured in hours and minutes

GAME OVER!!!

Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review