u4Warmingup介绍.ppt

Homework Revise the new vocabulary in this unit. 2. Preview the reading passage in next period. * * Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars Warming up How much do you know about the universe? Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences. It is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebula, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earths atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the formation and development of the universe. Astronomy is a multidisciplinary subject and uses knowledge from both math and physics. Think about these questions and then discuss them with your partner. In our solar system eight planets circle around the sun. What are they? Can you match the names with the planets? solar system 太阳系 Mercury(水星) Venus(金星) Mars(火星) Jupiter(木星) Uranus(天王星) Neptune(海王星) Earth(地球) Saturn(土星) Sun Venus Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn Earth Pluto Neptune Uranus 2. What interests you in astronomy? Do you know any questions that astronomers are interested in? Aristotle 亚里斯多德 Metaphysics (宇宙哲学) 张衡(78 AD - 139 AD), earliest astronomer in China Later Han Dynasty Seismography 地震仪 Invented seismography and the Armillary Sphere (浑天仪) so as to observe the universe and predict earthquake Galileo 伽利略 Galileo made a series of profound discoveries using his new telescope, including the moons of the planet Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus (similar to those of Earth’s moon). Copernicus 哥白尼 sun-centered or heliocentric (以太阳为 中心) theory Isaac Newton, 牛顿 1642—1727 Universal gravitation 万有引力 gravity 地心引力, 重力 Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) 爱因斯坦 Relativity (相对论) and the Cosmos (宇宙) The theory about black holes (黑洞理论) Black holes Satellites 卫星 Space flights (太空飞行) Cheer up Float Weightless Carbin astronomy biochemistry geophysics