Essential Questions
1. How do Earth's movement in space produce day and night? 2. What is the relationship between the tilt of the earth and its effects on seasons and climate? 3. How does the alignment of the earth, moon, and sun create phases of the moon? Be able to demonstrate this and identify the phases of the moon. 4. How does the alignment of the earth, moon, and sun create solar and lunar eclipses? 5. What is the current theory on the formation of the moon? What are the surface features of the moon? 6. How do the planets compare and contrast to the earth in terms of composition, size, surface and atmospheric features, relative distance from the sun, and ability to support life? 7. How do heliocentric and geocentric descriptions of the solar system differ? 8. How have scientists in the past(Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton) contributed to our understanding of the solar system? 9. What are the characteristics of comets. asteroids, and meteoroids? 10. How do gravity and inertis keep the planets in orbit around the sun? 11. How does an object's weight and mass on Earth compare to other locations in the solar system? 12. How do we use probes, satellites, telescopes,observatories, and spectroscopes to study space? 13. Where is our solar system located within the Milky Way Glaxy? 14. What is the Big Bang theory and how does it describe the formation of the universe? 15. How do scientist identify and classify stars and star systems? 16. What are light years? 17. What is the life cycle of a star? 18. What is the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram? 19. What are the major galaxy types? 20. What are constellations? 21. What are the different star groups? 22. What are the characteristics of the sun? |