Final Astronomy Quiz Review
Hierarchy of
Organization (subatomic particles to universe!)
What is the speed
of light?
What is a light
year? How does it compare to an Angstrom?
What is an AU?
Know these
approximate distances/sizes
Earth—Sun
(miles, light minutes)
Earth—Moon
(miles)
Diameter
of Earth (miles)
Diameter
of moon (miles)
Diameter
of our solar system (miles, light hours)
Diameter
of milky way galaxy (light years)
Distance
to nearest star (light years)
Distance
to nearest (Andromeda) galaxy (light years)
Diameter
of Halley’s comet (miles)
Diameter
of Ceres, large asteroid (miles)
Why does the earth
experience seasons?
Lunar phases
What is the
ecliptic?
How does a lunar
and/or solar eclipse occur?
What is
precession?
ElectroMagnetic
Spectrum
Bodes Law
Kepler’s
Laws of Planetary Motion
Galileo and his
discoveries
Jupiter’s
moons
History and
significance of the Crab Nebula
Sun/star science
Corona,
nuclear fusion, radiation zone, core, convection zone, photosphere, sunspots,
solar wind,
Life and Death of
a Star
Solar neighborhood
vs. Local Group
HR
Diagrams(Absolute Magnitude vs. Spectral Class
Telescopes,
refractive/reflective ‘light-buckets”
Inverse Square
Law…..as it applies to light and gravity
Voyager I and II
probes
Interplanetary
Material
Asteroids
Meteoroids
Comets
Isaac Newton
Mass
vs. weight
Velocity
vs. acceleration
Laws
of Motion, inertia, A=F/M (body’s acceleration = force applied/body mass)
Universal
Law of Gravitation, described in Principia
(1687), gravitational
force is directly related to the body masses (m1 m2 ),
gravitational force is inversely related to the 2 body’s distance from
each other
What is escape
velocity? What is the escape velocity
of the earth?
Word on the
crossword puzzles, (A words, B words, all-star)