Lessons
What is the history of astronomy?
What is a star?
How are stars grouped together?
Vocabulary
eclipse (solar and lunar)
light-year
nebula
supernova
black hole
galaxy
constellation
galaxy
Chapter 16
Stars and Galaxies
Lesson 1, What is the history of astronomy?
What is astronomy?
What are eclipses?
How does a solar eclipse occur?
How does a lunar eclipse occur?
What purpose does the telescope serve?
Who was the first person to use a telescope in astronomy?
Who discovered the reflecting telescope?
What did Galileo’s discovery find and contradict?
Which telescope is in space?
Which are the largest telescopes in the world?
Lesson 2, What is a star?
How can the sun be described?
What makes the sun heat and shine?
What are the different layers of the sun?
What is the photosphere?
What is the chromosphere?
What is the corona?
What is a light year?
How long does it take for light to reach Earth?
What is the average temperature of the Sun?
What does the color of a star tell you?
Lesson 3, How are stars grouped together?
What is a galaxy?
What is the name of our galaxy?
What type of galaxy is Earth in?
What holds galaxies together?
What are constellations?
Which constellation is seen in the northern hemisphere, but southern?
Which constellation is seen in the southern hemisphere, but northern?
From where does the sun rise?
To where does the sun set?
What is another name for Ursa Major?
