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Question 1

What is a Geocentric Model?

Answer 1

The idea that Earth is at the center of the solar system

thought of by Aristotle

Question 2

What is a Heliocentric Model?

Answer 2

The idea that the Sun is the center of the solar system.

thought of by Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 3

Ellipses

Answer 3

oval path of planets in our solar system

Question 4

Light-Year

Answer 4

distance light travels in one year which can go beyond our solar system

Question 5

Nebulae

Answer 5

large clouds of gas and dust floating in space

Question 6

Interstellar Matter

Answer 6

the gas and dust located between the stars in a galaxy

Question 7

Red Giant

Answer 7

a very large red star with little energy produced

Question 8

Red Supergiant

Answer 8

a very large star of high luminosity, and much larger than a Red Giant

Question 9

White Dwarf

Answer 9

a faint star of enormous density

Question 10

Supernova

Answer 10

a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process

Question 11

Constellations

Answer 11

a group of stars that forms a shape or pattern

Question 12

Asteroids

Answer 12

large rocky objects that revolve around the sun

Question 13

Comets

Answer 13

made up of dust + ice, When they are near the sun and heat up, they leave a visible trail of ice and gas.

Question 14

Meteoroids

Answer 14

Small rocky or metallic objects travelling in space

Question 15

Meteor

Answer 15

The trail of light emitted by a meteoroid as it travels through the earth’s atmosphere

Question 16

Meteorite

Answer 16

Fragments of meteor that remain after passing through the atmosphere

Question 17

Azimuth

Answer 17

Measurement of arc of the horizon

Question 18

Altitude

Answer 18

Measurement of vertical elevation especially above sea level or above the earth’s surface

Question 19

Zenith

Answer 19

an imaginary point directly overhead at 90° attitude