Chapter 10 Test Review

Which scientific law states the relationship between a planet's period and average distance from the sun?

A small rock from space that is burning up as it passes through Earth's atmosphere is an asteroid.

A small group of stars that is used to form a picture or represent an object is an asterism.

Who developed the law of universal gravitation?

What is the imaginary "band" in the sky in which the sun, moon, and planets travel?

What is the visible portion of the sun?

A large cloud of gas and dust in space is called a nebula.

What two planets are between the asteroid belt?

A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is a two-dimensional graph that compares stars by what two characteristics?

The phenomenon in which the moon passes between the sun and the earth is a lunar eclipse.

Castor is a star in which constellation?

What group of small, icy objects orbit the sun outside the orbit of the outermost planet?

What is the observed brightness that a star would have to an observer located 10 parsecs away?

This is a picture of which constellation?

What are the names of Mar's two moons?

What is the cloud of gas and dust that surrounds the center of a comet?

What is the largest moon in the solar system?

What is the imaginary sphere with Earth at the center and the heavenly bodies on its inner surface?

What are the convection cells that cover the sun's visible surface?

What Latin word is used to refer to the lunar "seas"?

The earth is at the center of the universe and that everything revolves around the earth is the heliocentric view.

This is a picture of which constellation?

This is a picture of which constellation?

Vega is a star in which constellation?

Which planet shares an orbit with the Trojan asteroids?

What is the apparent change in the position of an object caused by the actual change in the position of the observer?

What is an object so massive and dense that not even light can escape its gravity?

The orbits of the planets are symmetrical ovals called what?

The study of God's creation beyond the atmosphere is astrology.

What are the flame-like columns of gas that continually erupt from the lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere?

What stars form the Summer Triangle?

Spica is a star in which constellation?

Polaris is a star in which constellation?

What is a rapidly rotating star that emits directional beams of radio waves?

What unit of measurement is approximately equal to the distance between the sun and the earth?

What is the name for the period of time that the moon takes to orbit the earth?

What galaxy shape is the Milky Way?

Which planet is the outermost planet in our solar system?

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

Which planet is known for its ring system?

Which planet's notable feature is Olympus Mons?

During what phase of the moon is the entire sunlit side visible?

What describes Venus' backward rotation on its axis?

Regulus is a star in which constellation?

Sirius is a star in which constellation?

What is an object that orbits another object?

Which category of stars includes the sun?

Which planet is a gas giant that seems to lie on its side?

What is the explosion of a star?

What are frozen chunks of ice and dust that orbit the sun?

Which planet is called the "morning star" and "evening star"?

What is the largest galaxy in the Local Group?

Aldebaran is a star in which constellation?

Betelgeuse is a star in which constellation?

This is a picture of which constellation?

A planet's closest approach to the sun is perihelion.

This is a picture of which constellation?

Which planet is the fastest moving?

What describes a star that is always above the horizon to an observer at a particular location?