Science Vocabulary

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.

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.