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Homework:
5/12 - Textbook p. 446 - # 1-10. Aim: Thinking About Vocabulary
Questions and Answers in Notebook. Quiz will be on 5/13
5/12 - Textbook p. 446 - # 1-10. Aim: Thinking About Vocabulary
Questions and Answers in Notebook. Quiz will be on 5/13
5/15 - Copy vocabulary words in NB
1. geocentric - something that considers Earth as the center. An example ofgeocentric is the idea that the sun rotates around the earth.
2. heliocentric - is a theory that places the Sun as the center of the universe, and the planets orbiting around it.
3. telescope - an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
4. gravity - the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
5. scientific method - is an organized way that helps scientists (or anyone!) answer a question or begin to solve a problem.
6. Galileo Galilei - 1564 -1642. Italian mathematician and astronomer. Galileo constructed a telescope (1609) with whichhe discovered the moons of Jupiter and made other astronomical observations
7. Isaac Newton - English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
8. caravel - is a light sailing ship that that was developed by the Portuguese in the late 1400's, and was used for the next 300 years.
9. strait - narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
"the Strait of Gibraltar"
10. Strait of Magellan - The Strait of Magellan is a 350-mile navigable passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans located at the southern extremity of South America.
1. geocentric - something that considers Earth as the center. An example ofgeocentric is the idea that the sun rotates around the earth.
2. heliocentric - is a theory that places the Sun as the center of the universe, and the planets orbiting around it.
3. telescope - an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
4. gravity - the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
5. scientific method - is an organized way that helps scientists (or anyone!) answer a question or begin to solve a problem.
6. Galileo Galilei - 1564 -1642. Italian mathematician and astronomer. Galileo constructed a telescope (1609) with whichhe discovered the moons of Jupiter and made other astronomical observations
7. Isaac Newton - English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
8. caravel - is a light sailing ship that that was developed by the Portuguese in the late 1400's, and was used for the next 300 years.
9. strait - narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
"the Strait of Gibraltar"
10. Strait of Magellan - The Strait of Magellan is a 350-mile navigable passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans located at the southern extremity of South America.
