physcie reviewer

it is the shape of the earth. It has belonging equator and squeezed poles

• flat

• oblate spheroid

• eclipse

• solstice

an obscuring of the fight from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination

• solstice

• eclipse

• spheroid

• spherical

either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortes days.

• geocentrism

• eclipse

• oblate sphere

• solstice

A moment when the Sun's path in the sky is farthest south in the Northern Hemisphere or farthest north in

the Southern Hemisphere

• winter solstice

• summer solstice

• solstice

• sphere

A student of plato and considered as one of the great philosophers of his time : his earth centered view dominated for almost 2000 years

• erastosthenes

• nicolaus copernicus

• Aristotle

• thales

The longest day of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere it is in June, while in the Southern Hemisphere it's in December,

• winter solstice

• summer solstice

• lunar eclipse

• north star

It was believed to be in fixed position in the sky. However, when the Greeks traveled to places nearer the equator, like Egypt, they noticed that it is closer to the horizon.

• North star

• south star

• winter solstice

• summer solstice

A dark (real image) area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object

• lunar eclipse

• noontime

• solstice

• shadow

He proposed a spherical Earth and discovered that the Moon was inclined to the Earth's equator in 50..B.C. and he was one of the first to realise that Venus as an evening star was the same planet as Venus as a morning star.

• Eudoxus

• Anaxagoras

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

He observed that the Earth's shadow reflected on the Moon was circular.

• Phytagoras

• Anaxagoras

• Thales

• Hipparchus