Space unit E

Question 1

What does Solstice mean?

Answer 1

Sun Stops

Question 2

What does Equinox mean?

Answer 2

Equal Night

Question 3

What did the Ancient Celts in England use to mark the solstices?

Answer 3

Stonehenge

Question 4

What is the Geocentric model?

Answer 4

When the planets orbit Earth

Question 5

Who proposed the idea of the Geocentric model?

Answer 5

Aristole

Question 6

Who proposed the idea of the heliocentric model?
If you know it good but dont waste your time on it

Answer 6

Nicolaus Capenicus

Question 7

What is the heliocentric model?

Answer 7

Where the planets orbit the sun

Question 8

Who used the telescope to see space first?

Answer 8

Galileo Galilei

Question 9

What does the sundial do?

Answer 9

measure the passage of time

Question 10

What does the merket do?

Answer 10

measure the time in the night

Question 11

What does the astrolabe do?

Answer 11

make accurate charts of star positions

Question 12

What does the cross-staff do?

Answer 12

measure the angle of the moon and any given star

Question 13

What does the telescope do?

Answer 13

study and magnify space

Question 14

What is a light year?

Answer 14

the distance that light travels in a year

Question 15

What is a star?

Answer 15

A hot, glowing ball of gas.

Question 16

What is the main gas in a star?

Answer 16

Hydrogen

Question 17

What color is a hot Star and What color is a cold star?

Answer 17

Hot stars look blue and cold stars look red>

Question 18

Explain the steps of the birth of a star:

Answer 18

dust and gas roll around creating a nebula. Gravity between gas and dust form a rotating cloud. more material is brought into the cloud the temperature increases, Then it starts to glow once the Cloud gets to a specific temperature hydrogen changes to helium, then a star is born.

Question 19

what is a constellation?

Answer 19

a grouping of stars that form patterns.

Question 20

Name an unofficial constellation

Answer 20

The big dipper

Question 21

What is a galaxy?

Answer 21

millions or billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.

Question 22

Name 3 types of galaxies:

Answer 22

Spiral, elliptical and irregular.

Question 23

what are inner (terrestrial) planets?

Answer 23

the first 4 planest from the sun

Question 24

what are outer (jovian) planets?

Answer 24

4 furthest planets from the sun.

Question 25

What do all terrestrial planets have in common?

Answer 25

Rocky with no ring.

Question 26

what do all jovian planets have in common?

Answer 26

gaseous with ring(s)

Question 27

Define an Asteroid

Answer 27

rocky or metallic bodies in space

Question 28

Define a comet

Answer 28

ball of dust and ice

Question 29

What are comets sometimes described as?

Answer 29

Dirty snowballs

Question 30

Define a meteoroid

Answer 30

Small pieces of rock flying through space with no particular path

Question 31

Define an ellipse

Answer 31

the paths of bodies in our solar systems

Question 32

What is a solar eclipse?

Answer 32

when the moon passes between the sun and Earth.

Question 33

What is a lunar eclipse?

Answer 33

when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon.

Question 34

What is azimuth?

Answer 34

when you start at north 0° and go clockwise to get the compass direction

Question 35

What is altitude?

Answer 35

measures how high in the sky an object is. start at the horizon 0° and go straight up. you can't go further than 90°

Question 36

what is zenith?

Answer 36

the highest point directly overhead.

Question 37

What is the fundamental law of physics?

Answer 37

For every action their is an equal and opposite reaction.

Question 38

What was Canada's first satellite?

Answer 38

Alouette 1 (we were the third to put up a satellite)

Question 39

What was Archytas's "pigeon"?

Answer 39

The first rocket using escaping steam.

Question 40

what was spuntik 1?

Answer 40

the first satellite in space.

Question 41

What was special about Russia's second satellite?

Answer 41

Laika the dog was sent on it.

Question 42

3 basic parts of the rocket:

Answer 42

payload Mechanical / structural elements Fuel

Question 43

name 3 hazards in space for astronauts:

Answer 43

Meteorites, radiation, and no protection from the atmosphere

Question 44

4 things space suites contain:

Answer 44

layers of different materials, air and water, heating and cooling devices, and waste tubes

Question 45

skip this card!

Answer 45

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Question 46

what is a refracting telescope?

Answer 46

2 lenses that gather and focus light

Question 47

what is a reflecting telescope?

Answer 47

Mirrors instead of lenses in a telescope

Question 48

Define interferometry:

Answer 48

combining 2 or more telescopes for better images

Question 49

What is parallax?

Answer 49

Shift in position in nearby objects

Question 50

What is the doppler effect?

Answer 50

an increase or decrease in sound, light, or other wave lengths

Question 51

What is Blueshift?

Answer 51

Object moves towards an observer

Question 52

What is red shift?

Answer 52

an object moving away from the observer