Statistics for Cosmology Review Pt. 2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
any change in velocity (magnitude or direction)	acceleration	0%
planet on opposite side of Sun away from earth (superior planet)	conjunction	0%
when an inferior planet is further east of the sun as seen from earth (90 degree sun-planet-earth angle)	greatest eastern elongation	0%
when an inferior planet is furthest west of the sun as seen from earth (90 degree sun-planet-earth angle)	greatest western elongation	0%
when inferior planet lines up between earth and sun	inferior conjunction	0%
planets closer to the sun than earth	inferior planets	0%
planet on opposite side of earth away from sun (superior planet)	opposition	0%
elongation is perpendicular to the direction of the sun (superior planet)	quadrature	0%
when earth passes a planet and causes it to look like it's going backwards	retrograde motion	0%
when inferior planet lines up between earth and sun but is on the opposite side of the sun from the earth	superior conjunction	0%
planets farther away from sun than earth	superior planets	0%
something in nature which can only be described by a magnitude (speed) and direction	vector quantity	0%
the rate at which an object moves and the direction it is moving in	velocity	0%