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Astronomy Flashcards

1
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Light areas on Moon

A

Highlands

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2
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Dark areas on moon

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Maria

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3
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How old are the craters on the moon

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4 billion

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4
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What technology did we leave on the moon

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seismograph

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5
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Giant Impact Theory

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formation of moon

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6
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Revolution

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year

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6
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Rotation

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Day

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7
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How much is the earth tilted

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23.5

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8
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Causes seasons

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Tilt

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9
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Summer solstice the suns rays are 90 degrees to the..

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Tropic of Cancer

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10
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Winter solstice the suns rays are 90 degrees to the..

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Tropic of Capricorn

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11
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During the Equinox the axis is pointed towards….

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The equator

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12
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How many years for earth to wobble

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2600

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13
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What is earths wobble called

A

Precession

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14
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When lit portion of moon is getting bigger

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Waxing

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15
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When lit portion is getting smaller

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Waning

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16
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Earths path around the sun is not smooth because

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Pull of the moons gravity

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17
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Moon rise changes how many minutes everyday

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42 minutes

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18
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What planet rains acid

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Venus

19
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What planet has a retrograde rotation

A

venus and uranus

20
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What astronomer wrote math laws in reference to ellipses

A

Kepler

21
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What astronomer looked at Jupiter and proved the sun was at the center of the solar system

A

Galileo

22
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What astronomer looked at galaxies and said they were not just clouds of dust

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Edwin Hubble

23
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Who incorrectly had us thinking earth was the center of Universe(geocentric)

A

Aristotle

24
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Who wrote Universal Law of Gravitation

A

Newton

25
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Object that burns when it hits our atmosphere

A

Meteor

26
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Object from space that hits our atmosphere

A

Meteorite

27
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What’s in the Kuiper Belt

A

Dwarf planets

28
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Whats in Oort cloud

A

Comet

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30
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short period comets come around every ….. years

A

100

31
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What is an arching on the sun called

A

Prominence

32
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How are we affected by solar events on the sun

A

Northern lights, Disrupt satellites and technology

33
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Formula for fusion

A

E=MC2

34
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how much hydrogen is left in core of sun

A

50%

35
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stars and galaxies moving towards us is what shift

A

Blueshift

36
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Sun

A

8min

37
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Proxima Centauri

A

4.21ly

38
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Sirius

A

9ly

39
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Polaris

A

700ly

40
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Whats fusing in a Main Sequence Star

A

Hydrogen to Helium

41
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What surrounds a white dwarf

A

planetary nebula

42
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Whats fusingin a red giant star

A

Helium to Carbon

43
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When did big bang occur

A

13.8 billion years ago

44
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What instrument tells us that a star has hydrogen and helium

A

Spectrometer and puts it in colored bands

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