Astronomy Vocab 1

Astronomy Vocab 1

9th - 12th Grade

12 Qs

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Astronomy Vocab 1

Astronomy Vocab 1

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Physics

9th - 12th Grade

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Chad Talley

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes the term revolution as it pertains to Astronomy?

spinning like a basketball spinning on someone’s finger

the earth spins and this causes the day/night cycle

Mars appears to go backwards in the sky

spinning around an external axis

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This causes a ball to drop to the ground on earth as well as the orbits of the planets around the sun.

momentum

inertia

gravity

circular motion

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following best defines a closed orbit?

an orbit that never ends

an orbit which returns to its starting point

an orbit in which no other object can enter

an orbit that does not repeat itself

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This ideology was proposed to explain the motions of celestial bodies and put earth in the center of the universe

Earthcentrism

Earthisbestism

Heliocentrism

Geocentrism

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Copernicus developed a model which put the sun at the center of our universe, often coined

Geocentrism

Heliocentrism

Eccentricity

Ellipses

6.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

axis is half of the distance between the two farthest points on the circumference of an ellipse (2 words, no hyphen)

7.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

a small circle with a center moving around the edge of a larger circle; Ptolemy used these to explain the weird motion of Mars

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