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Astronomy Midterm Fill In The Blanks

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Question: How does work, in steps?Answer: 1. Observation of nature 2. Detection of patterns or regularities 3. Induction of underlying laws of nature 4. Deductive prediction of new phenomena 5. Experimental test of predictions 6. and reduction
Question: What is a ?Answer: The "ground rules" under which scientists in a field or sub-field to operate and which form the basis for discriminating "science" from "non-science"
Question: What were made in the big bang?Answer: Hydrogen and Helium, the rest were made in
Question: Inductive reasoning certain or uncertain conclusions?Answer: completely certain conclusions accurate premises
Question: reasoning yields certain or uncertain conclusions?Answer: uncertain
Question: What is a ?Answer: Statements made with no evidence to them
Question: What is the sphere?Answer: The apparent dome of the
Question: is?Answer: The point
Question: is?Answer: The circle from north through to south
Question: is the sun at Noon?Answer: On the
Question: Celestial is?Answer: The
Question: Right is?Answer: (longitude) angle along celestial
Question: is?Answer: (latitude) angle north or south of the towards celestial pole
Question: is?Answer: The angle from through east along the horizon
Question: is?Answer: angle up from toward zenith
Question: Azimuth and Altitude coordinates are and change with time, what doesn't?Answer: Right ascension and
Question: For an observer in New Brunswick, NJ, what range of azimuth would all the locations on the horizon at which stars can rise?Answer: 0 to 180 degrees
Question: If it is summer in the north, what is it in the south?Answer:
Question: What season is the sun the and thus has the longest days?Answer:
Question: Diurnal ?Answer: Motion for East to west, 24
Question: Circumpolar are?Answer: Stars that set
Question: A day is?Answer: Noon to
Question: A day is?Answer: Stellar transit to next
Question: days are longer than sidereal days by how long?Answer: 4
Question: The sun Annually from N-S and W to E along..?Answer:
Question: The motion is?Answer: , monthly from W to E
Question: The sailor moon crescent moon is called?Answer: Waxing Crescent if the white part is on the left, Waning Crescent if it is on the
Question: The Quarter" position of the moon is actually when the white part is?Answer: A half moon, the white part being on the right. The last quarter has the part on the left.
Question: What is the difference a full moon and a new moon?Answer: The full moon is illuminated, the new moon is all dark.
Question: 3/4 moon phases are ?Answer: Waxing and Waning
Question: During an , the umbra is..?Answer: The darkest shadow cast by the on another planet, in the middle between the lighter penumbra shadows
Question: The is..?Answer: the lighter shadow cast during an eclipse onto another planet. It surrounds the umbra, the darkest .
Question: A lunar involves?Answer: The shadow falling on the moon
Question: A eclipse involves?Answer: The shadow falls on the earth
Question: A cycle is?Answer: The 18 year 11 period of eclipse cycles
Question: Planets is?Answer: Diurnal, generally west to east. Sometimes retrograde E to W. are defined by their retrograde motion.
Question: Pythagoras' birth date and :Answer: 530-450 BC, believed in Number, Harmony, , and Geometry
Question: Philolaus' birth date and :Answer: (5th century BC) All plantets revolve around a "Central fire" including moon. Stars are in locations, and there are 10 circles revolving around sun, including a "Counter earth" that shields us from the sun.
Question: ' birth date and theories:Answer: (375-310 BC) Mercury and venus orbit sun, explains retrograde motion and positions of and venus. sun and other other planets orbit earth
Question: Aristarchus' date and theories:Answer: (310-230 BC) heliocentric model, explains retrograde motion naturally. all planets revolve around sun, moon revolves around earth. Allows for calculation of size and distance fo the sun and moon. Not accepted because earth doesnt seem to move.
Question: Plato' date and theories:Answer: (428-348 BC) Theory has a "real" world of perfection vs our "visible" world of . Hard for his theories to be disproved by evidence bc his theories cannot be proven wrong.
Question: Eudoxus' birth date and :Answer: (~370 BC) Made a model of spheres spheres, 3 spheres per planet, plus sun, moon. 27 spheres total. only crudely represented retrograde motion
Question: 's birth date and theories:Answer: (384-322) Held Platos ideas as absolute fact. involved 4 elements: earth, water, air, fire. "natural" places: earth lowest, fire highest. motion arises when objects are displaced from natural place. Argued against heliocentric theory.
Question: Hipparchus' birth date and :Answer: (160-125 BC)Catalogued 850 star positions and brightness. Invented modern magnitude system. Deferent - circular orbit. Epicycle - Smaller orbit on deferent. Eccentric - Displacement of earth from center of deferent.
Question: Eratosthenes' birth date and :Answer: (~200 BC) Made the first very measurement of the earths size. "Father of geography". Calculated circumfrence of earth
Question: 's birth date and theories:Answer: (~150 AD) Used Hippachus' general . Introduced the equant, a point opposite of the eccentric, at thesame distance from the center. Planet's epicycle moves on the deferent at a variable speed, the speed appears constant as seen from the equant.
Question: The SystemAnswer: Used 40 circles in total, set the size of the universe: 20,000 R = 1 AU. Dominated for 1400 years, the most successful scientific ever. Accurate predictions
Question: Hypatia's birth date and :Answer: First known female astronomer, wrote commentary on Ptolemy. Developed astronomical navigation . Murdered during mob riot
Question: (1273-1543)Answer: First astronomer of modern times. Model had circular orbits and uniform circular motion, added small to account for variability. Provided natural explanation for retrograde motion.
 
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