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Created by Mari Chambers
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What are the large circular features on the Moon called?
How did the large circular features on the Moon form?
Name the area of light patterns on the surface of the Moon.
Name the area of dark patterns on the surface of the Moon.
What are lunar phases?
Why do lunar phases occur?
How long does it take the Moon to make a complete revolution around Earth?
Define axis tilt
Define constellations
Who is Copernicus?
Who is Galileo?
Who is Kepler?
What is a lunar eclipse?
Who is Ptolemy?
What is a solar eclipse?
How has human understanding of the universe evolved?
When do astronomers believe that the Moon formed?
How do we experience day and night?
How do we experience seasons?
How are eclipses caused? What is the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse?
Why were early people more aware of daily and seasonal changes? What did this result in today?
When did humans begin to understand celestial movements?
Connect the names and terms Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, heliocentric, and geocentric.
Which country's astronomers are credited with making the first formal records about star and planet motions? How accurate were their observations?
What are the common patterns on the Moon?
Name some features of the Moon.
What is the giant impact theory or ejected ring theory?
Where does lunar and lunatic derive from?
Does the Moon produce its own light?
What are the moon phases?
How does the Moon affect Earth's tides?
What is an eclipse?
What blocks the Sun's light during a lunar eclipse?
What is the darkest part of the Moon's shadow on Earth called?
Why do you see only a partial eclipse if you are standing in the penumbra?
Why does a solar eclipse not occur every time the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth?
Describe Earth's rotation and tilt.
Explain the solstices
What is the pattern of solar and lunar eclipses?
Why is the word umbra used for the central dark area of the shadow?
What has the Big Dipper been seen as?
Where is the oldest map of the stars believed to be found?
What is the difference between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites?
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"If we always see the same side of the Moon that is lit by the Sun, the other side of the Moon should be constantly dark."
If Earth had two moons, would each body experience more eclipses?
Define holistic
Define lunar month
Define Western science
Connect holistic and unity
What is a vision quest?
How does holistic apply to the universe?
Why do Aboriginals have an understanding of the Moon?
How did Aboriginals use planet and star positions?
How have Aboriginal knowledge and Western science connected?
Why were lunar calendars used?
How have traditions and astronomical knowledge been passed down?
What are ethics?
What is geosynchronous orbit?
What is an optical telescope?
What is a probe?
What is a radio telescope?
Rover
Satellite
Terraforming
Compare refracting and reflecting telescopes
Interferometry (array)
What are some non-optical telescopes?
How has the invention of the telescope helped the science of astronomy?
What is the advantage of interferometry?
Earth-based telescope conditions (solution?)
Statellite uses
Canadarm 2
5 spinoff technology
