BJU Earth Science Chapters 22, 23, 24

What are declination and right ascension used for?

"Dirty Snowballs" is a term used to describe _________.

The four terrestrial planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Kepler discovered that the planets travel in an __________ shape around the sun.

According to Genesis 1:14, God created the stars to __________.

A _____________ is a natural satellite.

The apparent path that the sun follows through the stars as seen from Earth's perspective is called the ecliptic.

_____________ discovered the law of inertia.

Isaac Newton discovered Jupiter's moons.

How many times does the moon rotate during one revolution around the earth .

The corona is the outer region of the sun's atmosphere.

How many named constellations are there?

A _________________ is a thing of such massive gravity that not even light can escape it.

The Chromosphere is the visible surface of the sun.

Pluto is one of the nine planets.

The brightness of a star as it appears from Earth is its __________ magnitude.

The Jovian planets are also known as the ___________.

When a meteoroid has landed on the earth's surface it is then called a _______.

Most of the solar wind from the sun travels in the form of high-energy protons and neutrons.

The sun is composed mostly of _____________.

A ___________ includes the sun and the planets that its gravity holds.

The big dipper is an asterism located inside the constellation Orion.

The distance that light travels in a year is a(n) __________.

The most damaging type of solar flare is a coronal mass ejection.

In the first half of the lunar month when the lighted part is increasing, the moon is said to be __________.

The geocentric theory with the earth as the center of the universe came from _______________.

The line that seperates the dark and light parts of the moon is the ________.

The hotter, dark spots on the sun are called sun spots.

In what lunar phase must the moon be during a total lunar eclipse?

The moon has a core, mantle, and crust similar to Earth's.

The Kuiper belt is a region of asteroids and comets located past _________.

In what part of the sun does nuclear fusion occur?

An astronomical unit (AU) is the distance between

The suns surface exists in what state of matter?

In what lunar phase must the moon be during a total solar eclipse?

______________ described a heliocentric theory of the universe with the sun at the center.

How does the moon's surface gravity compare with Earth's?