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!!!