EARTH SCIENCE Flashcards
How God separated light from darkness, created the sky, land, sea, moon, stars, and every living creature in a span of six days
BOOK OF GENESIS
An oscillating universe in which “cosmic egg” or Brahmanda
HINDU TEXT RIGVEDA
the whole universe expands out of a single concentrated point
BINDU
believed in a primordial universe and explained that the original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all its ingredients.
ANAXAGORAS
believed in an atomic universe (small, indivisible, indestructible)
LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS
earth is spherical because it always cast a curved shadow when it eclipses the moon
ARISTOTLE
When the moon positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth
SOLAR ECLIPSE
When the Earth positions itself between the sun and the moon casting a shadow across the ______ surface
LUNAR ECLIPSE
geocentric universe where earth stayed motionless in the heavens and everything is revolving around it
PTOLEMY
Where the Earth is centered
PTOLEMAIC OR GEOCENTRIC
Concept of consolation, determined the location of 850 starts
HIPPARCHUS
heliocentrism or heliocentric principle
ARISTARCHUS
Heliocentrict is ____ centered?
SUN CENTERED
Adapted theory of heliocentrism. Even without earth in solar system, it can’t affect the other celestial object
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Express the idea of stellar parallax that if the earth does revolve along an orbit around the Sun
TYCHO BRAHE
Basic laws of planetary
JOHANNES KEPLER
First description of the moving objects an invented the refracting telescope
GALILEO GALILEI
provides view by looking through lens that focus on one eyepiece
REFRACTING TELESCOPE
Conceptualized the force of gravity and invented the reflecting telescope
ISAAC NEWTON
focusing light through a concave mirror
REFLECTING TELESCOPE
Defined as a group of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets
SOLAR SYSTEM
a chemical process in which a substance reacts rapidly with oxygen and gives off heat
COMBUSTION
model constrained in the formation of solar system
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
Starting is cloud - twist and flatten where our solar system is created
NEBULA HYPOTHESIS
the sun burst open and shot out and went to their places; we are from the sun
FISSION THEORY
Planets and moon captured by our sun and began circling
CAPTURE THEORY
Pile of dust and rock chunks pushed together into our planet, same into our moon of the process
ACCRETION THEORY
Our world collided with small planet
PLANETARY COLLISION THEORY
Collision between stars where the planets, moons and sun came to existence
STELLAR COLLISION THEORY
Gas clouds were captured by our sun and they began whirling and the existence of planets and moons began
GAS CLOUD THEORY