dead guys and ch. 26 hoops review

Dead Guys and Ch. 26 Hoops Review

QUARTER 1

Question 1Who designed “geoglyphs”?

Question 2Who developed the Laws of motion?

Question 3Who first promoted the heliocentric

theory of the universe?

Question 4Oldest astronomical time piece in

existence?

Question 5Famous for the invention of telescope?

Question 6Telescope that covers 1/3 of the sky and

collects radios waves that is sent to a receiver.

Question 7What is the proper name for the season

that occurs when the sun is the highest in the sky?

Question 8Telescope that uses MIRRORS?

Question 9Telescope that uses LENS?

Question 10Tool that separates starlight into colors?

Quarter 2

Question 11Worked in a great observatory in Europe

and made accurate observations for 23 years!!!

Question 12Estimated how large the earth is?

Question 13Developed the 3 laws dealing with

ellipses?

Question 14Provided observational proofs that the

earth is a sphere?

Question 15List one problem with optical astronomy.

Question 16Collection of stars, dust, and gas bound

together by gravity?

Question 17An instrument that collects

electromagnetic radiation from the sky?

Question 18 What is the apparent backward motion

of planets called?

Question 19What is the term for the furthest point

from the sun?

Question 20What causes seasons?

Halftime

Quarter 3

Question 21Shape of the orbit around the sun?

Question 22What causes day and night?

Question 23What accounts for a year?

Question 24What is the longest day of the year?

Question 25The shortest day of the year ?

Question 26Term for the earth to be closest to the

sun?

Question 27Described as the power or the strength of

the telescope?

Question 28The diameter of the lens or the mirrors?

Question 29Uses 4 large telescopes and several

other small telescopes?

Question 30What season is it during the autumnal

equinox?

Quarter 4

Question 31What is the speed of the rotation at the

north pole?

Question 32What is the tilt of the earth?

Question 33List one piece of evidence that the earth

rotates.

Question 34List another piece of evidence that the

earth rotates.

Question 35List three reasons people began watching

the night sky.

*Need all three for “shot”

Question 36Which “dead guy” was placed under

house arrest for publishing astronomical findings that went “against” the church?

Question 37Which has the largest effect on

eccentricity (how elliptical the shape is), the distance between the foci or length of the “string”?

Question 38What is the equation for eccentricity?

*Using e, d, and L…

Question 39If the area of sector A of a planet around

the sun is 3947 m^2, according to Kepler’s second law the area of another sector (sector B) that represents the same amount of time should be?

Question 40What is right ascension AND what unit is

it measured in?

*Need both correct to get the “shot”

GAME OVER!!!