Astronomy Quiz

2. ASTRONOMY
PREPARED BY
MS. R. UMADEVI
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF
MATHEMATICS
BON SECOURS COLLEGE FOR
WOMEN

3. EXPLAIN THE TERM

4. VERTICALS

5. THE SECONDARIES TO THE
HORIZON ARE CALLED
VERTICAL CIRCLES OR
VERTICALS

6. CELESTIAL
MERIDIAN

7. THE GREAT CIRCLE THROUGH
THE CELESTIAL POLES, ZENITH
AND NADIR ARE CALLED THE
CELESTIAL MERIDIAN

8. NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

9. THE CELESTIAL EQUATOR DIVIDES THE
CELESTIAL SPHERE INTO TWO
HEMISPHERES. THE HEMISPHERE
CONTAINING THE NORTH POLE IS
CALLED THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.

10. CELESTIAL SPHERE

11. THE IMAGINARY SPHERE
SURROUNDING THE OBSERVER, ON
WHICH WE MAY SUPPOSE, THAT ALL
CELESTIAL BODIES ARE FIXED IS
CALLED THE CELESTIAL SPHERE.

12. ASTRONOMY

13. ASTRONOMY IS THE SCIENCE
DEALING WITH THE CELESTIAL
BODIES LIKE THE SUN, THE
MOON, THE PLANETS AND THE
STARS.

14. CELESTIAL MERIDIAN

15. THE GREAT CIRCLE THROUGH
THE CELESTIAL POLES,
ZENITH AND NADIR

16. CONNECXION

18. SPHERICAL TRIANGLE

20. LATITUDE

22. SIDEREAL TIMES

24. LONGITUDE

26. RIGHT ASCENSION

28. ECLIPSES

30. PHASES OF MOON