Question

Three terms in planetary science sound similar but have different meanings.Fill in the blanks below with the correct term. Important: Spelling matters! Use only lowercase! a. A solar_________ occurs when the Moon passes across the disk of the Sun. b. An___________ describes the shape of a planetary orbit about the Sun.c. The____ describes the path of the Sun as seen against the background stars.

Answer 1

Answer:

Three terms in planetary science sound similar but have different meanings.Fill in the blanks below with the correct term. Important: Spelling matters! Use only lowercase! a. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes across the disk of the Sun. b. An ellipse describes the shape of a planetary orbit about the Sun.c. The ecliptic describes the path of the Sun as seen against the background stars.          

Explanation:

When the moon places between the Earth and the Sun, a solar eclipse occurs. The moon is capable to hide the solar disk, even with the sun being 400 times bigger than the moon but the moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the sun.      

Kepler's first law establishes that all the planets revolve around the Sun in an ellipse orbit, with the sun in one of the focus.

The ecliptic is the apparent path that the sun has in the celestial sphere as a consequence of the daily movement of the Earth around its axis