Science Vocabulary
Across
- 1. A device used to measure the altitude of an object.
- 2. A bunch of stars grouped together that make patterns which look like like objects and are, therefore, given names.
- 3. An optical telescope which uses mirrors for it’s objective.
- 7. Also known as the eyepiece, it is the lens which you view magnified objects through using a telescope.
- 8. An optical telescope that uses lens for the objective.
- 11. Universal Gravitation is related to Newton’ s law which says that all things attract other things. This provides the explanation for the elliptical orbits which the planets have.
- 13. The angle measured clockwise from North when measuring altitude-azimuth coordinates.
- 14. Shows the quality and detail a telescope can produce of an object in view.
- 15. An object which looks like a squashed circle. Planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in an ellipse shape.
- 16. All objects in the sky or in space. Things like the moon, sun and and planets in general.
Down
- 1. Find a heavenly body located relative to Earth.
- 4. A device used to measure an object’s azimuth
- 5. Also known as Geocentric, it is a model of the universe that puts Earth at the middle with the Sun and moon and all the planets orbiting it.
- 6. Also known as Heliocentric, it is a model of the universe That puts the Sun at the middle with Earth and all the planets orbiting it.
- 9. Heavenly bodies in the solar system. This includes Earth, which orbits the sun.
- 10. A measurement of the positions or motions of things.
- 12. The big lens at the very front of the telescope.