As always, please plan to complete this material in 3 weeks.
Viewing the Sky - click here
The Changing Sky - Rotation - click here
The Changing Sky - Revolution - click here
autumnal equinox
celestial sphere
celestial poles
celestial equator
circumpolar regions
diurnal motion
ecliptic
equinox
Polaris
solstice
vernal equinox
Know why the sun “appears” to move east to west across the sky each day and why it “appears” to move west to east against the stars in the course of a year.
The Solar System
Click here to learn about the moon.
Click here to learn a little about
the solar system.
asteroid (asteroid belt)
Collision Ejection
Theory
comet
extra-solar planets
highlands
Jovian planets
K/T event
Kuiper belt
Maunder minimum
mare (maria)
Oort comet cloud
planetesimal hypothesis
sunspot cycle
Terrestrial planets
Know the major features of the moon, Venus, and mars and a bit about
some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn..
Know how solar activity can change in time and ways this activity can
effect the earth. Understand how the solar system formed and list
its general properties. Has the earth ever been hit by an object
from space? Could it happen in the future?
Click here to learn more about the lives of
stars.
Click here to learn about galaxies.
Click here to learn about the origin and
fate of the universe.
big bang theory
black hole
cosmic background radiation
flat universe
galaxy and galaxy types
irregular
elliptical
spiral (our Milky Way)
H-R diagram and star classifications
main sequence
(red) giant
(red) supergiant
white dwarf
Hubble's law (law of redshifts)
light year
neutron star (pulsar)
quasar
spectral class
steady state theory
supernova
Stellar Evolution stages - know the stages for our sun and stars more massive
than our sun
Evolution of the Universe - What is the universe made of? How did it
begin? What is its fate?
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