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What is retrograde motion?
It is another name for an ellipse
Formative Practice: Unit 1 Day 3-4
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It is another name for an ellipse
Circle
Spheroid
Curve
Oval
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What is retrograde motion?
The passage of the sun in front of a planet
The apparent back and forth motion of planets in the sky
An orbit with a "loop-de-lopp"
A planet's orbit around the Sun
3
Precession of Earth takes about
26000 Years
24 Hours
9 Years
365.24 Days
4
Galileo used a telescope to discover
the moons of Jupiter
the Sun
Saturn's rings
Pluto
5
What is the summer solstice?
the longest day of the year
the shortest day of the year
24 hours of daylight
a day with equal hours of daylight and night
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What does
heliocentric
mean?
Belief the solar system went around the Milky Way Galaxy
Belief the Sun went around the Earth
Belief the Earth went around the Sun
Belief the Earth went around the Milky Way Galaxy
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He used Brahe's data and proved the planets orbit the Sun in ellipses.
Galileo
Copernicus
Brahe
Kepler
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How long is Earth's revolution around the Sun?
about 12 hours
about 365 days
about 24 hours
about 180 days
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What does Earth's rotation cause?
day and night
eclipses
a year
the seasons
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The solar zenith angle changes with:
time of year & latitude
time of year
latitude
longitude
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Galileo supported the _______________ theory.
Flat Earth
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Mooncentric
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What does
geocentric
mean?
Belief the planets go around the Sun
Belief all objects are pulled to the center of Earth
Belief the Earth is at the middle of the Solar System
Belief the Earth is at the end of the Universe
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Which statement is false about Johannes Kepler______________?
believed the Earth was the center of the Solar System
was the apprentice of Brahe
developed the laws of planetary motion
supported the notion that the Sun was the center of the Solar System
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What is Solar Azimuth ?
angle of the Sun's position
altitude of the Sun from Earth's surface
Is a renewable energy
A dome field
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Who discovered that planets move in ellipses?
Tycho Brahe
Kepler
Isaac Newton
Galileo
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Nicolaus Copernicus is known as the Father of Modern...
Astronomy
Geology
Physics
Geometry
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Earths revolution is ___________________
Earth spinning on its axis in 24 hours
Earth moving around the moon in 24 hours
Earth moving around the sun in 365 days
Earth spinning on its axis in 12 hours
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Copernicus proposed this idea that the Sun was the center of the Solar System called the
social contract theory
heliocentric theory
geocentric theory
miasmatic theory
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Perhelion is the point of planets orbit when it is_______ to the Sun
Farthest
Closest
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Which astronomer is credited for the geocentric model?
Kepler
Copernicus
Galileo
Ptolemy
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Galileo Galilei developed what device that could magnify objects?
Mirror
Telephone
Telescope
Television
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What does "equinox" mean?
It means summer is over
It means the longest or shortest day of the year
It means spring is here
It means "equal day and night"
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Precession
The slow wobble as Earth spins on its axis
The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun
The axial tilt of Earth in relation to earths plane of orbit around the sun
The apparent backwards motion of a planet in Earth's sky
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"Aphelion" refers to the point when a planet's orbit is
nearest earth
farthest from the sun
farthest from earth
nearest the sun
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Rotation means to
go around something
orbit another object
wobble like a top
spin on an axis
