Science
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| astronomy | study of celestial objects and interstellar space
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| astronomer | somebody who studies astronomy
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| revolution | one year, celestial object orbiting the sun
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| rotation | a planet spinning once on its axis, one day
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| orbit | the motion of a path of something
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| calander | way to organize time
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| day | time it takes for one rotation
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| year | time it takes for one revolution
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| heliocentric | sun centered theory
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| geocentric | earth centered theory
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| Tycho Brahe | believed in geocentric theory
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| stonehenge | mysteriously placed stones that were for sacrafice
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| gaileo | astronomer who invented telescopes
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| astrolabe | small device for measuring where a celestial body is
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| horizon | where the sky and earth appear to meet
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| zenith | imaginary dot over everybody's head
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| altitude | angle between celestial object and horizon
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| azimuth | imaginary circle around horizon
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| celestial sphere | stars in sphere shape around earth
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| declination | how far north or south something is on the celestial sphere
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| telescope | instrument to observe objects in space
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| electromagnetic radiation | energy transferred in electromagnetic waves
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