Atmosphere Jeopardy Review Early Astronomy Motion Moon Solar System Hodgepodge 10 20 30 40 50
Who was the first astronomer to use a telescope? Category 1 – 10 Galileo
Who determined the location of almost 850 stars? Category 1 – 20 Hipparchus
Who discovered that planets have an elliptical orbit? Category 1 - 30 Kepler
Who was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth? Category 1 - 40 Eratosthenes
Whose most important contributions were his descriptions of the behavior of moving objects? Category 1 - 50 Galileo
What is the turning, or spinning, of a body on its axis? Category 2 - 10 Rotation
What is the time in January when Earth is closest to the sun? Category 2 - 20 Perihelion
What is the point at which the moon is farthest from the Earth? Category 2 – 30 Apogee
The ___ month is based on the cycle of the moon’s phases? Category 2 – 40 Synodic
What is the time it takes for the Earth to make one complete rotation with respect to a star other than the sun? Category 2 – 50 Sidereal Day
What are depressions produced by a meteorite impact called? Category 3 - 10 Craters
? Category 3 - 20 Waxing Crescent
What are the densely pitted, light-colored areas that make up most of the lunar surface called? Category 3 - 30 Highlands
What are lunar phases a result of? Category 3 - 40 The motion of the moon & the sunlight that is reflected from its surface.
Explain the most widely accepted model for the origin of the moon? Category 3 - 50 When the solar system was forming, a body the size of Mars impacted Earth. The resulting debris was ejected into space, began orbiting around Earth, and eventually united to form the moon.
List the Terrestrial Planets. Category 4 - 10 Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars
What is a small body made of rocky & metallic pieces held together by frozen gases? Category 4 - 20 Comet
What are the small, irregularly shaped bodies formed from colliding matter called? Category 4 - 30 Planetesimals
Explain the Nebular Theory. Category 4 - 40 The sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases.
Comets with long orbital periods form a spherical shell around the solar system called the __________. Category 4 - 50 Oort Cloud
What is the study of the properties of objects in space and the laws under which the universe operates? Category 5 - 10 Astronomy
What is the average distance between the Earth and the sun? Category 5 - 20 Astronomical Unit (AU)
What eclipse occurs when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow? Category 5 - 30 Lunar Eclipse
What is the apparent westward motion of the planets with respect to the stars? Category 5 - 40 Retrograde Motion
What force was Newton the first to formulate and test? Category 5 - 50 Law of Universal Gravitation (gravity)