Unit 6 Terms

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Across
  1. 5. of Age, Interpretation stating recent creation in the last 10,000 years, Earth and universe created to ‘appear’ millions/billions of years old, aligns age of Earth with scientific evidence for Earth’s age
  2. 7. measured the circumference of Earth using a stick and a shadow
  3. 9. Interpretation that translates ‘days’ as not actual amounts of time, but references for communicating better with the audience of the time, views Genesis more as a narrative, rather than a text to be taken literally, topical, not chronological
  4. 11. The scientific study of the planets and stars of the universe, their movements, patterns, composition, and evolution
  5. 14. the path which a planet within the solar system follows around the center, similar to what we call orbits
  6. 17. clusters, spherical groups of stars found in the halo
  7. 19. Earth, Interpretation stating creation took place over six 24 hour days, age of Earth is 6,000-10,000 years based on OT genealogy,
  8. 20. one of the first astronomers to develop a truly heliocentric model of the solar system
Down
  1. 1. the model developed by Copernicus based on his 7 axioms, sun in the center
  2. 2. a secondary path of movement that planets follow in addition to their deferent
  3. 3. A model of the solar system with Earth at the center
  4. 4. known for reconciling the heliocentric model with the church and the Laws of Planetary Motion were named after him
  5. 6. eclipse, this occurs when the Earth casts a curved shadow on the moon
  6. 8. Almagest, a book written by Ptolemy to publish his findings on the Geocentric model
  7. 10. Discourse concerning the stars, mystical, superstitious
  8. 12. solstice, the day when the sun is most directly over Earth, marking the beginning of summer
  9. 13. stars, stars in the sky that did not move in perfect circles, known today as planets
  10. 15. create a geocentric model of the solar system that explained this apparent motion of the planets
  11. 16. Interpretation stating “Days” in the Hebrew text can be interpreted as longer periods of time, ‘epochs’, extends the creation process from literal days to longer times, aligning with modern evidence for age of the planet
  12. 18. a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true