Telescopes, Dead Guys, and Archeoastronomy

Review

Question 1

Who designed “geoglyphs”?

Nazca

Question 2

Who is credited with the concept of gravity?

Newton

Question 3

Who was the first to promote the heliocentric universe?

Copernicus

Question 4

Oldest astronomical time piece in existence?

Stonehenge

Question 5

Famous for the invention of telescope?

Galileo

Question 6

Telescope that covers 1/3 of the sky and collects radios waves that is sent to a receiver.

Radio Telescope

Question 7

Telescope that uses MIRRORS?

Reflecting Telescope

Question 8

Telescope that uses LENSES?

Refracting Telescope

Question 9

Who worked in a great observatory in Europe and made the most accurate observations of the universe?

Brahe

Question 10

Developed the 3 laws dealing with ellipses?

Kepler

Question 11

Provided observational proofs that the earth is a sphere?

Aristotle

Question 12

List one problem with optical astronomy.

Need darkness, light pollution, atmosphere interferes

Question 13

Collection of stars, dust, and gas bonded together by gravity?

Galaxy

Question 14

An instrument that collects electromagnetic radiation from the sky?

Telescope

Question 15

What is the apparent backward motion of planets called?

Retrograde motion

Question 16

Shape of the orbit around the sun?

Ellipse

Question 17

What causes day and night?

Rotation

Question 18

Described as the power or the strength of the telescope?

Magnification

Question 19

The diameter of the lens or the mirrors?

Aperture

Question 20

List four reasons people began watching the night sky.

Entertainment, time, religion, navigation

Question 21

Which has the largest effect on eccentricity (how elliptical the shape is), the distance between the foci or length of the ellipse?

Distance between foci

Question 22

What is the equation for eccentricity? *Using e, d, and L…

E = d / L

Question 23

If the area of sector A of a planet around the sun is 3947 m2, according to Kepler’s second law the area of another sector (sector B) that represents the same amount of time should be?

3947 m2

Question 24

What is right ascension AND what unit is it measure in?

Celestial Longitude; measured in hours and minutes

Question 25

What is declination AND what unit is it measured in?

Celestial latitude.. Measured in degrees