Across
- 3. Used his telescope to prove the heliocentric model of the universe
- 6. Who discovered that galaxies moving fastest are located farther?
- 8. The resulting force of gravity when the distance between two objects is doubled would be ___ ___.
- 9. The one property of a star that determines the rest of its life cycle.
- 11. Hubble's Law implies the universe is doing this.
- 12. The change in frequency or wavelength of a wave for an observer who is moving relative to the wave source
- 14. used his telescope to see the moon craters, the moons of Jupiter, and the sunspots on the sun
- 16. How our Sun will eventually end its life cycle.
- 18. The products of hydrogen fusion inside a star are helium and this.
- 21. The reason Earth's gravity is stronger than the Moon's is because of the Earth's ____.
- 23. Kepler’s First Law of Planetary Motion states that a planet’s orbit has this shape with the sun at one foci
- 26. Instrument that separates light into individual colors/wavelengths
- 27. Oval shape centered on two points instead of one point
- 28. He developed the Law of Universal Gravitation and the 3 Laws of Motion
- 29. The two variables determining the strength of gravitational pull are mass and this.
- 30. The layer of the sun where fusion occurs.
- 31. The type of relationship between a galaxy's velocity and its distance according to Hubble's Law.
Down
- 1. a model designed to explain what we see in the sky while having the Earth located in the center of the universe
- 2. This man developed the 3 laws of planetary motion (ellipses, etc.)
- 4. Your weight on the Moon would be this compared to your weight on Earth.
- 5. Motion of a planet moving in the opposite direction of the normal direction of planetary motion as observed from Earth
- 7. The possible final remnant of a very high mass blue main sequence star after a supernova.
- 10. All of which element in the universe originated from the Big Bang.
- 13. A process where the nuclei of two atoms combine to form a larger nucleus.
- 15. The key difference in conditions during formation that explains why inner and outer planets are different.
- 17. This form of energy has the longest wavelength and lowest frequency.
- 19. the point in a planet’s orbit where the planet moves with the greatest speed
- 20. Unit of measure that is the average distance between the Sun and Earth (150 million km or 93 million miles)
- 22. Theory supported by cosmic background microwave radiation
- 24. Used epicycles to explain the retrograde motion of the planets in his geocentric model of the universe
- 25. proposed a model of our solar system with the Sun in the center instead of the Earth at the center
