Solar System Test Review

The Milankovitch Cycles...

Which of the following does not describe a dwarf planet?

Different places on Earth experience high tide because...

_______ is the point in Earth's orbit when it is furthest from the sun.

We only ever see one side of the moon because....

A _____ occurs when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from reaching Earth.

Precession changes...

Spring tides have...

People living near the ocean experience a high tide approximately every _____ hours.

Earth's path as it revolves around the sun is called its _______.

Neap tides have...

Which of the following is not evidence to support the Solar Nebula Theory?

The two days each year when the noon sun is directly overhead at the equator.

The asteroid belt likely formed when...

Earth's slow wobble as it spins on its axis is called _______.

A _____ occurs during the full moon when Earth is directly between the moon and the sun.

When Earth's axial tilt is more extreme...

_______ is the shape of Earth's orbit and varies from more to less elliptical.

The imaginary line the passes thru Earth's center, North and South poles is called Earth's _______.

_____ made observations of the moons of Jupiter, Venus, and sun spots which refuted the geocentric model.

A total solar eclipse occurs...

The Solar Nebula Theory states that our solar system was formed...

Neap tides occur during...

Spring tides occur during...

_____ revised the geocentric model to explain the retrograde motion of planets by proposing planets move in epicycles.

_____ and _____ combine to cause objects to orbit other objects in space.

Seasonal changes in the hemisphere now experiencing more extreme changes will become less extreme when...

When a total lunar eclipse occurs, it is visible...

When Earth's axis cycles to point toward Vega...

_____ discovered Uranus and was the first person to discover a planet.

We see the moon in its various phases because only half the moon is lit by the sun and...

Precession...

When Earth's axis cycles to point at Vega, seasonal changes in the Northern Hemisphere...

Which of the following does not describe the terrestrial planets?

Which of the following does not describe the Jovian planets?

Kepler's 3rd law states that the ratio of the orbital period squared and the orbital radius cubed for all planets...

The movement of one object around another in space is called _______.

A _____ occurs when the moon and the sun pull at right angles to each other.

Kepler's 2nd Law states that planets...

A _____ occurs when the sun and moon are both in line with Earth and their gravity pulls in the same direction.

_____ described laws that govern motion and gravity which gave a reason for the heliocentric universe.

_____ discovered galaxies other than the Milky Way and showed those galaxies were moving away from Earth.

Tidal bulges (high tides) occur on the side of Earth facing the moon because...

Kepler's 3rd Law states that the further a planet is from the sun, the _____ its orbital period.

When the north end of Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun, the Northern Hemisphere will have...

The visible path of a sand to boulder sized debris or rock particle that has entered Earth’s atmosphere and is burning.

Which of the following criteria does not define a planet?

Earth has seasons because...

The two days each year when the noon sun is directly overhead at either 23.5^o north or south.

Kepler discovered that planets in our solar system move around the sun in _____ orbits, having the sun at one foci.