Physci 4Th Quarter 1St Quiz

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major contributions in different fields and not Philosophers

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The Greek

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Great scientists and mathematicians

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The Greek

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Golden Age of early astronomy was centered

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Greece

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They made use of their ______________ to explain certain events

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observational data

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They were the ones who measured the _______ and _______ of the sun and moon

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sizes and the distances

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They used basic ________

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geometry and trigonometry

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Early Greeks viewed the earth as____

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Geocentric view

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Geocentrism

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earth centered

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Heliocentrism

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Sun Centered

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The celestial bodies_________ the Earth

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Orbited

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traveled daily around the earth but all stayed transparent and hollow sphere beyond the planets called celestial sphere

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Stars

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The shape of the Earth has a bulging equator and Squeezed poles

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Oblate Spheroid

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happens two times in the year

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Solstice

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two types of Solstice

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summer and winter solstice

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reaches its highest or lowest point in the say at noon marked by the longest and shortest days

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sun

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obscuring of the light from one celestial body

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Eclipse

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Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be

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Lunar Eclipse

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Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially

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Solar Eclipse

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Earth and planet revolve the sun

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Heliocentrism

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Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all

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Geocentrism

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Greens Believed that the earth was round not flat

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500 BC

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first to propose a spherical earth

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Pythagoras and his pupils

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500 to 430 BC he supported Pythangoras proposal through his observations of shadows that cast on the moon during a lunar eclipse

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Anaxagoras

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reflected on the moon's surface and shadow reflected was circularAristotle - 340 BC listed several

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Earth's shadow

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340 BC listed several arguments for Spherical Earth including position of north star and disappearance of North star the ships believed to be at a fixed position in the sky

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Aristotle

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In the________ they noticed that the north star is closer to the horizon

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Equator like Egypt

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argued the shape of the sun and moon were both spherical perhaps the earth is too

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Aristotle

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observers should become smaller and smaller until it disappeared the hull disappeared first before the sail

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Disappearing ships

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Ancient scholars provided a proof of a spherical earth and its Circumference through calculation

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Size of the Spherical Earth

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gave the most accurate size during their time

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Eratosthenes

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Eratosthenes was working in

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Library of Alexandria in Northern Egypt

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he received correspondence that no vertical object cast any shadow at noontime during summer Solstice

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Syene in South Egypt

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"at noon time during the summer solstice vertical object still cast shadow "

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Alexandria

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determined the angle of the sun

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Erasthothenes-

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what did Erasthothenes use

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vertical Stick cast

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in Alexandria Sun makes an angle of _______ from the fertical

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7.2°

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in Syene

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0°

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the light rays coming from the sun are_____ and the Eath is Curved

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parallel

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Earth is approximately______ Stadia

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250,000

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One stadia is_

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40,000 Km