FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ASTRONOMY 100 FINAL

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ASTRONOMY 100 FINAL

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-Guarantee passing score -183 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: List Mars, Saturn and Uranus in order of greatest mass to least mass.

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Saturn, Uranus, Mars Question 2: True or False: Of all planets and moons in the solar system, Titan is probably the best analogue to the Earth's environment before life began on our planet.

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True Question 3: Suppose that you have a (good) reflecting telescope and a (good) refracting telescope with the same diameter objective. Which as a secondary mirror?

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The reflector Question 4: True or False: The constellations of the zodiac are all located along the celestial equator.

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False

Question 5: True or False: Mass means the same as weight.

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False - mass never changes, weight does

Question 6: Kepler's third law determined....

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a planets period of revolution

Question 7: Who discovered moon around Jupiter?

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Galileo Question 8: _______ showed that a prism separates white light into its component colors.

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Newton

Question 9: The terrestrial planet _____ has 2 moons.

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Mars

Question 10: The Sun is considered a ______ type of star.

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G Question 11: True or False: The Sun makes up almost all the mass of the entire solar system.

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True Question 12: True or False: As the Moon orbits the Earth, its same side always faces the Earth.

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True

Question 13: The "dirty-snowball" model of a comet's nucleus was first proposed by ______

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Fred Whipple Question 14: The best-know comet is named after ______ because he was the first to calculate its orbit.

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Halley

Question 15: A partial solar eclipse happens...

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under the Moon's penumbra Question 16: True or False: The locations of the Earth's magnetic poles have wandered in the past.

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True Question 17: What is the list of planets in order, starting with the ones closest to the Sun.

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

Question 18: Jupiter's satellite ______ has active volcanoes.

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Io

Question 19: Asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit come from the...

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Apollo Question 20: The Earth's outer layer or ______ extends to a depth of less than 100 kilometers.

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crust

Question 21: Who discovered the planet Uranus?

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Herschel Question 22: True or False: The center of the Milky Way Galaxy is a steady emitter of radio waves.

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True

Question 23: The winter solstice happens ....

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about December 22

Question 24: The equatorial regions of the Sun rotate...

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with a shorter period that regions near its poles Question 25: True or False: Venus rotates in the same direction as the Earth.

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False Question 26: True or False: Since the Sun has been coverting hydrogen to helium for billions of years it s now composed of about 50% hydrogen and 50% helium?

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False Question 27: Which of the following distances is largest? Earth to Moon; Earth to Sun; Earth to Venus when Venus is at its greatest distance from us; Venus to Sun; Venus to Mercury when they are farthest apart

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Earth to Venus when Venus is at its greatest distance from us

Question 28: Which planets contain a higher percentage of volatile gases?

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The Jovian planets