Q1 Week 1 Vocab Quiz

theory of the influence of planets and stars on human events

• Astrology

• Cosmology

• Astronomy

• Planet

The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space

• Astronomy

• Horoscope

• Celestial Sphere

• Geocentric

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Apparent Magnitude

• Planet

Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Zenith

• Precession

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the brightness of a star as seen from Earth

path of the sun and the planets

• Ecliptic

• Heliocentric

• Precession

• Zodiac

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

a belt around the sky about 18° wide centered on the ecliptic

• Zodiac

• Ecliptic

• Astronomy

• Cosmology

an imaginary sphere of which the observer is the center and on which all celestial objects are considered to lie.

• celestial sphere

• precession

• Zenith

• eclipitic

A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce light of its own

the apparent westward motion of the planets with respect to the stars

• retrograde motion

• zodiac

• precession

• apparent magnitude