FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ASTRONOMY FINAL

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ASTRONOMY FINAL

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-Guarantee passing score -99 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The short-period comets do NOT have randomly oriented orbits because why?

Answer:

They formed in the Kuiper belt, a belt-shaped region in the plane of the solar system

Question 2: Which of these planets is NOT one of the inner 4 planets?

Mercury, Mars, Venus, Saturn

Answer:

Saturn is a Jovian planet

Question 3: New DNA patterns can result how?

Answer:

Through the chance mismatching of base pairs

Question 4: The oldest fossils on Earth show what?

Answer:

Show that life began in the oceans

Question 5: The grooved terrain found on Ganymede is believed to be what?

Answer:

A system of faults in the crust Question 6: What type of asteroid is more common in the outer asteroid belt where it is cooler?

Answer:

C-type Question 7: Single stars are most likely to have planets suitable for life because why?

Answer:

These stars would allow planets to have stable orbits Question 8: A stony meteorite that contains no chondrules and no volatiles. They appear to have been melted after they formed and resembles solidified lava

Answer:

Achondrite Question 9: The Viking spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976. What did they discover?

Answer:

None (of the above)

Question 10: The old surfaces of icy satellites appear how?

Answer:

Appear dark in color with many impact craters

Question 11: Spectroscopic observations of Pluto indicate what?

Answer:

Water and nitrogen ices on its surface Question 12: Uranus and Neptune do NOT contain liquid metallic hydrogen because they

Answer:

are not massive enough

Question 13: The stars most likely to have inhabited planets are what type?

Answer:

G to K main-sequence stars

Question 14: Round bits of glass found in some stony meteorites

Answer:

Chondrules

Question 15: Three broad categories of meteorites are

Answer:

iron, stony-iron, and stony Question 16: The survival of technological societies can also be referred to as what?

Answer:

The number of communicative civilizations in our galaxy

Question 17: The orbit of Pluto is what?

Answer:

Highly elliptical and, at times, brings the planet closer to the sun than Neptune Question 18: Which of the following may have organic (hydrocarbons) on its surface as a result of the interaction of sunlight with methane in its upper atmosphere?

Answer:

Titan

Question 19: A meteor shower is produced when?

Answer:

Earth passes through the orbital path of a comet

Question 20: DNA molecules contain patterns for the production of what?

Answer:

Proteins

Question 21: Particles in Jupiters ring

Answer:

must be silicate particles Question 22: Of the following celestial objects, the one that is the most likely source of the gravitational disturbance that prevented the asteroids from forming a planet is? Earth, Charon, Jupiter, Neptune

Answer:

Jupiter

Question 23: The excess heat produced by Jupiter is the result of what?

Answer:

The continual slow contraction of the planet Question 24: Segments of DNA act as templates that guide the amino acids to join together to form what?

Answer:

Proteins

Question 25: Earth-based telescopic observations of Neptune reveal what?

Answer:

A bluish-green disk with no visible surface detail Question 26: The asteroid Ida has an irregular surface and has a small moon that orbits it. What does this information tell us about Ida?

Answer:

Ida has been fragmented

Question 27: The survival of technological societies limits what?

Answer:

The number of communicative civilizations in our galaxy

Question 28: Saturn....

Answer:

Has liquid metallic hydrogen in its interior