Astronomy Quizzes

Question 1 (1569564):One Light Year (LY) is equivalent to about how many kilometers?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 9.45x1015

Correct answer(s):
1.06x10-16
9.45x1015
9.45x1012
about 6 trillion
Question 2 (1569556):How many meters are there in one kilometer? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 1,000
Correct answer(s):
0.62
.001
1,000
1.61
Question 3 (1569566):The galaxy, M31 in Andromeda, is about 2.5x106 LY away. How
long does it take for light leaving M31 to reach us? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 2.5 million years
Correct answer(s): 4.0x10-7 years
2.5 million years
1 year
instantly
Question 4 (1569563):How fast does light travel through space? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 300,000 kilometers per second
Correct answer(s): 3x108 meters per second
1 LY per year
300,000 kilometers per second
All of the above.
Question 5 (1569555):How many inches are there in one meter? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 39.4
Correct answer(s): 39.4
.0254
2.54
394.0
Question 6 (1569560):An Astronomical Unit (AU) is defined as Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): the average distance between the Sun and the
Earth.
Correct answer(s): the distance between the Sun and the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
the average distance between the Sun and the Earth.
the average distance between the Sun and Pluto.
The distance light travels in one year.
Question 7 (1569565):How many AUs are there in one Light Year? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 63,200
Correct answer(s): 63,200
1.6x10-5
about 6 trillion
1
Question 8 (1569557):What is the diameter of the Earth in kilometers? Type:Multiple

Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 12,700
Correct answer(s): 7,900
3,800
4,909
12,700
Question 1 (1600806):The two coordinates that describe the location of an object on the
Celestial Sphere are Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Right Ascension and Declination
Correct answer(s): Right Ascension and Declination
Latitude and Longitude
Altitude and Azimuth
Time of day and location.
Question 2 (1600802):You observe the Sun rising directly in the East (due East). At the
time of the sunrise, which of the following coordinates would describe the location of the
Sun in your local sky? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Altitude 0 degrees and Azimuth 90 degrees
Correct answer(s): Right Ascension 6 hours and Declination 0 degrees
Latitude 42 degrees and Longitude 83 degrees west
Question 3 (1600813):What phase of the Moon will result when the Moon passes
between the Sun and the earth? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): New
Correct answer(s): New
First Quarter
Full
Third Quarter
Question 4 (1600814):What phase of the Moon will set at noon? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Third Quarter
Correct answer(s): New
First Quarter
Full
Third Quarter
Question 5 (1600805):What is the latitude for an observer at the Equator? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 0 degrees
Correct answer(s): 0 degrees
45 degrees North Latitude
90 degrees South Latitude
Question 6 (1600807):What is the Declination of the North Celestial Pole? Type:Multiple
45 degrees
90 degrees
Zenith
Question 7 (1600804):What is the latitude of the North Pole? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 90 degrees North Latitude
Zenith
Question 8 (1600812):Can the Moon ever be seen during the day? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Yes, about half the time.
Correct answer(s): Yes, about half the time.
No, never.
Question 9 (1600815):What two conditions must be met in order for a Solar Eclipse to
occur? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The Moon
must be in the New Moon phase and on the Ecliptic Plane.
Correct answer(s): The Moon must be in the Full Moon phase and above the Ecliptic
Plane.
The Moon must be in the Full Moon phase and on the Ecliptic Plane.
The Moon must be in the New Moon phase and above the Ecliptic Plane.
The Moon must be in the New Moon phase and on the Ecliptic Plane.
Question 10 (1600809):For an observer located at the Earths North Pole, what would be
the approximate altitude of the star Polaris? Recall Polaris is also referred to as the Pole
Star, which means that it is located very near the North Celestial Pole. Type:Multiple
23.5 degrees
42 degrees
90 degrees (zenith)
Question 1 (1618285):How did Galileos observation of Venus support the heliocentric
system? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): He observed
that while Venus was in the crescent phase it appeared larger than when it was in full
phase.
Correct answer(s): He observed that while Venus was in the crescent phase it appeared
larger than when it was in full phase.
He observed that while Venus was in the full phase it appeared larger than when it was in
full phase.
He observed that Venus appeared largest when it was in the full phase.
He did not observe Venus as ever being in the full phase.
Question 2 (1618275):To account for the apparent retrograde motion of the planets,
Ptolemy included ____________ in his model of the Universe. Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): epicycles
Correct answer(s): circles
epicycles
ellipses
heliocentricism
Question 3 (1618278):Tycho Brahe is best known for Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): His accurate and comprehensive astronomical

observation techniques.
Correct answer(s): His accurate and comprehensive astronomical observation techniques.
His cosmology, which included a combination of heliocentric and geocentric features.
His three laws of planetary motion.
The invention of the telescope.
Question 4 (1618284):In both the geocentric and heliocentric systems, Venus would be
expected to go through phases. Which of the following distinguishes between the two
systems? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): In the
heliocentric system, Venus would occasionally be near full phase and would appear larger
at that time. In the geocentric system, Venus would never be near full phase.
Correct answer(s): In the geocentric system, Venus would occasionally be near full phase
and would appear larger at that time. In the heliocentric system, Venus would never be
near full phase.
In the heliocentric system, Venus would occasionally be near full phase and would appear
larger at that time. In the geocentric system, Venus would never be near full phase.
In the geocentric system, Venus would occasionally be near full phase and would appear
smaller at that time. In the heliocentric system, Venus would never be near full phase.
In the heliocentric system, Venus would occasionally be near full phase and would appear
smaller at that time. In the geocentric system, Venus would never be near full phase.
Question 5 (1618274):The model in which Earth occupies the center of the Universe is
called the ____________ model. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): geocentric
Correct answer(s): heliocentric
Big Bang
Keplerien
geocentric
Question 6 (1618281):Which of the following is a consequence of Keplers Third Law?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Planets closer to the
Sun have shorter orbital periods than planets further from the Sun.
Correct answer(s): Planets closer to the Sun have shorter orbital periods than planets
further from the Sun.
Planets closer to the Sun have longer orbital periods than planets further from the Sun.
Planets move on epicycles while epicycles orbit the Sun.
For any given orbiting planet, when it is closer to the Sun it moves faster than when it is
Question 7 (1618280):Which of the following is a consequence of Keplers Second Law?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): For any given orbiting
planet, when it is closer to the Sun it moves faster than when it is further from the Sun.
Question 8 (1618279):According to Keplers First Law, the orbit of each planet is what
shape? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Elliptical
Correct answer(s): Parabolic
Elliptical
Circular
Spherical
Question 1 (1618277):In the heliocentric system, how is apparent retrograde motion
explained? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Planets
nearer to the Sun orbit faster than planets further from the Sun. When an inner planet
overtakes an outer planet, the outer planet appears to move backward.
Correct answer(s): Each planet is on a rotating epicycle, which in turn orbits the Sun.
Each planets orbit is in the shape of an ellipse.
Planets nearer to the Sun orbit faster than planets further from the Sun. When an inner
planet overtakes an outer planet, the outer planet appears to move backward.
The Earth occasionally travels slower in its orbit and when this happens, the other planets
appear to move backward.
Question 2 (1618276):Which of the following people developed the heliocentric model of
the Universe. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Copernicus
Correct answer(s): Aristotle
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
Question 3 (1618283):What was the significance of the discovery that Jupiter had its own
moon system? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): It was
direct evidence that not all celestial objects orbit the Earth and, therefore, supported the
heliocentric model.
Correct answer(s): It revealed just how well telescopes could magnify things for us.
It enabled Galileo to determine the mass of Jupiter.
It was direct evidence that not all celestial objects orbit the Earth and, therefore,
supported the heliocentric model.
It was direct evidence that all planets have moon systems.
Question 4 (1618275):To account for the apparent retrograde motion of the planets,
Ptolemy included ____________ in his model of the Universe. Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): epicycles
Correct answer(s): circles
epicycles
ellipses
heliocentricism
Question 5 (1618279):According to Keplers First Law, the orbit of each planet is what
shape? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Elliptical
Correct answer(s): Parabolic
Elliptical
Circular
Spherical
Question 6 (1618282):The first person to use a telescope for astronomical observation
was Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Galileo Galilei
Correct answer(s): Claudius Ptolemy
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Question 7 (1618280):Which of the following is a consequence of Keplers Second Law?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): For any given orbiting
planet, when it is closer to the Sun it moves faster than when it is further from the Sun.
Question 8 (1618274):The model in which Earth occupies the center of the Universe is
called the ____________ model. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): geocentric
Correct answer(s): heliocentric
Big Bang
Keplerien
geocentric
Question 1 (1618317):Where did the Terrestrial planets form? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Inside the Rock/Metal Condensation Line.
Correct answer(s): Inside the Rock/Metal Condensation Line.
Between the Rock/Metal Condensation Line and the Frost Line.
Beyond the Frost Line
None of the above.
Question 2 (1618311):What is the term used for the type of planet that is similar in many
ways to Earth? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Terrestrial
Correct answer(s): Jovian
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 3 (1618314):Which planet type tends to be high mass? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Jovian
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
ways to Jupiter? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Jovian
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 5 (1618324):What is the composition of a typical Comet or Kuiper Belt Object?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Rock and Metal
combined with Hydrogen Compounds or Ices
Correct answer(s): Rock and Metal

Rock and Metal combined with Hydrogen Compounds or Ices
A relatively small amount of Rock and Metal plus a combination of Hydrogen
Compounds and Hydrogen and Helium Gases.
None of the above.
Question 6 (1618310):What is the name of the theory that describes the processes by
which the solar system formed? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): The Nebular Theory
Correct answer(s): The Nebular Theory
The Genesis Theory
The Solar System Theory
The Big Bang Theory
Question 7 (1618323):Where did the Comets or Kuiper Belt Objects form? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Beyond the Frost Line.
Beyond the Frost Line.
None of the above.
Question 8 (1618325):What is the likely composition of Pluto? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Rock and Metal combined with Hydrogen
Compounds or Ices
None of the above.
Question 9 (1618318):What is the primary composition for the Terrestrial planets?
Hydrogen Compounds or Ices
Compounds and Hydrogen and Helium Gases
None of the above.
Question 10 (1618313):Which planet type tends to be small? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Kuiper Belt Object
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 1 (1618315):Which planet type tends to be low density? Type:Multiple Choice
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 2 (1618321):Where did the Asteroids form? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Between the Rock/Metal Condensation Line and the
Frost Line.
None of the above
ways to Jupiter? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Jovian
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 4 (1618318):What is the primary composition for the Terrestrial planets?
Hydrogen Compounds or Ices
Compounds and Hydrogen and Helium Gases
None of the above.
Question 5 (1618310):What is the name of the theory that describes the processes by
which the solar system formed? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): The Nebular Theory
Correct answer(s): The Nebular Theory
The Genesis Theory
The Solar System Theory
The Big Bang Theory
Question 6 (1618313):Which planet type tends to be small? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Terrestrial
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 7 (1618317):Where did the Terrestrial planets form? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Between the Rock/Metal Condensation Line
and the Frost Line.
None of the above.
Question 8 (1618316):Which planet type tends to have few or no satellites?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Terrestrial
Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 9 (1618314):Which planet type tends to be high mass? Type:Multiple Choice

Asteroid
Terrestrial
Kuiper Belt Object
Question 10 (1618325):What is the likely composition of Pluto? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Rock and Metal combined with Hydrogen
Compounds or Ices
None of the above.
Question 1 (1618358):Which of the following detection methods has resulted in the most
exoplanet discoveries? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Doppler
Correct answer(s):
Direct Detection
Astrometry
Doppler
Transit
Question 2 (1618363):Why is direct detection so difficult? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Both a and b are correct.
Correct answer(s): Because planets emit the same kind of light as the stars.
Because exoplanets are so far away and therefore very dim. Also, their host stars outshine
them.
Actually, direct detection is not that difficult. Most of the exoplanets discovered to date
have been detected using this method.
Both a and b are correct.
Question 3 (1618359):Most of the exoplanets discovered so far tend to be Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): high-mass.
Correct answer(s): high-mass.
low-mass.
Earth-like.
none of the above.
Question 4 (1618362):The Doppler method works only in cases where Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): There is some component of motion
in which the star has a non-zero radial velocity.
Correct answer(s): We are looking at the star/planet system from a face-on vantage point.
There is an extremely massive planet, several times the mass of Jupiter.
There is some component of motion in which the star has a non-zero radial velocity.
The Doppler method has not yet been successful at detecting extra solar planets.
Question 5 (1618360):A planet and its host star orbit about Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): their common center of mass.
Correct answer(s): the center of the star.
the center of the planet.
their common center of mass.

each other.
Question 1 (1618364):What is the current status of the search for extra solar planets?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): More than 450
expoplanets have been identified.
Correct answer(s): More than 450 expoplanets have been identified.
More than 1000 exoplanets have been identified.
Less than 100 exoplanets have been identified.
No exoplanets have yet been found.
Question 2 (1618363):Why is direct detection so difficult? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Because exoplanets are so far away and therefore
very dim. Also, their host stars outshine them.
Correct answer(s): Because planets emit the same kind of light as the stars.
Because exoplanets are so far away and therefore very dim. Also, their host stars outshine
them.
Actually, direct detection is not that difficult. Most of the exoplanets discovered to date
have been detected using this method.
Both a and b are correct.
Question 3 (1618362):The Doppler method works only in cases where Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): There is some component of motion
in which the star has a non-zero radial velocity.
Correct answer(s): We are looking at the star/planet system from a face-on vantage point.
There is an extremely massive planet, several times the mass of Jupiter.
There is some component of motion in which the star has a non-zero radial velocity.
The Doppler method has not yet been successful at detecting extra solar planets.
Question 4 (1618360):A planet and its host star orbit about Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): their common center of mass.
Correct answer(s): the center of the star.
the center of the planet.
their common center of mass.
each other.
Question 5 (1618359):Most of the exoplanets discovered so far tend to be Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): high-mass.
Correct answer(s): high-mass.
low-mass.
Earth-like.
none of the above.
Question 1 (1618388):What is the difference between a meteoroid, a meteor and a
meteorite? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A
meteoroid is a piece of debris in space. A meteor is a piece of debris burning up in Earths
atmosphere and a meteorite is a chunk of debris that reaches the Earths surface.
Correct answer(s): A meteoroid is a chunk of debris that reaches the Earths surface. A
meteor is a piece of debris in space and a meteorite is a piece of debris burning up in
Earths atmosphere.
A meteoroid is a large asteroid. A meteor is a comet and a meteorite is a rock.
A meteoroid is a piece of debris in space. A meteor is a piece of debris burning up in
Earths atmosphere and a meteorite is a chunk of debris that reaches the Earths surface.
A meteoroid is a comets coma. A meteor is a comets tail and a meteorite is a comet

nucleus.
Question 2 (1618379):How are asteroids discovered? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): By sending probes to the region of space between
Mars and Jupiter and having them scan the region for asteroids.
Correct answer(s): By observing their gravitational effect on Mars.
Basically by luck, since they are so small and, therefore, difficult to see.
By taking extended time photographs and observing streaks relative to the fixed
background stars.
By sending probes to the region of space between Mars and Jupiter and having them scan
the region for asteroids.
Question 3 (1618391):What is a meteor shower? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A meteor shower occurs whenever the Earth passes
through the meteoroid debris left behind by a comet. The result is that more meteors will
occur during that time.
Correct answer(s): A meteor shower is the collection of icy, rocky objects located beyond
the orbit of Neptune.
A meteor shower occurs whenever the Earth passes through the meteoroid debris left
behind by a comet. The result is that more meteors will occur during that time.
A meteor shower is a storm that occurs at night.
A meteor shower is a group of comets discovered in close succession.
Question 4 (1618381):How large are the largest asteroids? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): About the size of the Earth
Correct answer(s): About the size of a bowling ball.
About the size of a mountain on Earth.
A few hundred miles in diameter.
About the size of the Earth
Question 5 (1618382):How crowded is the Asteroid Belt? Do spacecraft have trouble
traveling through it? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
The asteroid belt is extremely crowded. Each asteroid is separated from the others by
only a few miles. A spacecraft would have a very difficult time passing through the
asteroid belt without colliding with at least one of the asteroids.
Correct answer(s): In the asteroid belt, asteroids are separated from each other by
millions of miles. By human standards, the asteroid belt is not crowded at all. Spacecraft
would be able to pass through the asteroid belt with very little chance of colliding with an
asteroid.
We think that the asteroid belt is not crowded, but some probes sent to the outer planets
have collided with asteroids in the asteroid belt while en-route.
There is no way of knowing whether the asteroid belt is crowded at all since it is too far
away.
Question 6 (1618387):How does a comet eventually die? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Comets eventually disintegrate after several passes
close to the Sun.
Correct answer(s): Comets eventually fall into the Sun.
Comets die by receding into the depths of space, never to return.
Comets die by exploding in a giant fireball.
Comets eventually disintegrate after several passes close to the Sun.

Question 7 (1618383):What is the Kuiper Belt? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A collection of many small icy objects beyond the
orbit of Neptune.
Correct answer(s): A collection of rocky-metallic objects between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter.
A collection of many small icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
The gases escaping from a comet nucleus and stretching out in space.
None of the above.
Question 8 (1618390):What are the two basic types of meteorites? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Stones or Stone Meteorites and Irons or Iron
Meteorites.
Correct answer(s): Meteors and Meteoroids.
Stones or Stone Meteorites and Irons or Iron Meteorites.
Silicated Iron and Stoney Iron Meteorites.
Rocky Meteorites and Metallic Meteorites.
Question 9 (1618389):Where do most meteorites come from? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): From the outer crusts of asteroids freed
during collisions.
Correct answer(s): From the outer crusts of asteroids freed during collisions.
From the inner cores of asteroids freed during major asteroid collisions.
From deep within the Earths crust.
From the debris left in a comets orbit.
Question 10 (1618393):Why does the Moon have so many more impact craters than the
Earth? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The Moon has
no atmosphere, so there has been no erosion of the craters. Also, the Moon has no
geological activity that could have replaced the cratered surface over geological
timescales.
Correct answer(s): The Moon has no atmosphere, so there has been no erosion of the
craters. Also, the Moon has no geological activity that could have replaced the cratered
surface over geological timescales.
The Moon has had many more impacting events than Earth.
The Moon is in space, while Earth is not.
The Moon has shielded Earth from most of the potential impacts.
Question 1 (1618389):Where do most meteorites come from? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): From the outer crusts of asteroids freed
during collisions.
Correct answer(s): From the outer crusts of asteroids freed during collisions.
From the inner cores of asteroids freed during major asteroid collisions.
From deep within the Earths crust.
From the debris left in a comets orbit.
Question 2 (1618390):What are the two basic types of meteorites? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Stones or Stone Meteorites and Irons or Iron
Meteorites.
Correct answer(s): Meteors and Meteoroids.
Stones or Stone Meteorites and Irons or Iron Meteorites.
Silicated Iron and Stoney Iron Meteorites.

Rocky Meteorites and Metallic Meteorites.
Question 3 (1618393):Why does the Moon have so many more impact craters than the
Earth? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The Moon has
no atmosphere, so there has been no erosion of the craters. Also, the Moon has no
geological activity that could have replaced the cratered surface over geological
timescales.
Correct answer(s): The Moon has no atmosphere, so there has been no erosion of the
craters. Also, the Moon has no geological activity that could have replaced the cratered
surface over geological timescales.
The Moon has had many more impacting events than Earth.
The Moon is in space, while Earth is not.
The Moon has shielded Earth from most of the potential impacts.
Question 4 (1618384):What is the difference between a comet and a meteor?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A comet is an asteroidsized chunk of rock and ices in orbit around the Sun while a meteor is a small chunk of
debris burning up in the Earths atmosphere.
Correct answer(s): A comet is a small chunk of debris burning up in the Earths
atmosphere while a meteor is a small chunk of debris that has survived the plunge
through Earths atmosphere and can be recovered.
A comet is a small chunk of debris burning up in the Earths atmosphere while a meteor
is an asteroid-sized chunk of rock and ices in orbit around the Sun.
A comet is an asteroid-sized chunk of rock and ices in orbit around the Sun while a
meteor is a small chunk of debris burning up in the Earths atmosphere.
None of the above.
Question 5 (1618391):What is a meteor shower? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A meteor shower occurs whenever the Earth passes
through the meteoroid debris left behind by a comet. The result is that more meteors will
occur during that time.
Correct answer(s): A meteor shower is the collection of icy, rocky objects located beyond
the orbit of Neptune.
A meteor shower occurs whenever the Earth passes through the meteoroid debris left
behind by a comet. The result is that more meteors will occur during that time.
A meteor shower is a storm that occurs at night.
A meteor shower is a group of comets discovered in close succession.
Question 6 (1618381):How large are the largest asteroids? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A few hundred miles in diameter.
Correct answer(s): About the size of a bowling ball.
About the size of a mountain on Earth.
A few hundred miles in diameter.
About the size of the Earth
Question 7 (1618387):How does a comet eventually die? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Comets eventually disintegrate after several passes
close to the Sun.
Correct answer(s): Comets eventually fall into the Sun.
Comets die by receding into the depths of space, never to return.
Comets die by exploding in a giant fireball.
Comets eventually disintegrate after several passes close to the Sun.
Question 8 (1618382):How crowded is the Asteroid Belt? Do spacecraft have trouble

traveling through it? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
In the asteroid belt, asteroids are separated from each other by millions of miles. By
human standards, the asteroid belt is not crowded at all. Spacecraft would be able to pass
through the asteroid belt with very little chance of colliding with an asteroid.
Correct answer(s): In the asteroid belt, asteroids are separated from each other by
millions of miles. By human standards, the asteroid belt is not crowded at all. Spacecraft
would be able to pass through the asteroid belt with very little chance of colliding with an
asteroid.
We think that the asteroid belt is not crowded, but some probes sent to the outer planets
have collided with asteroids in the asteroid belt while en-route.
There is no way of knowing whether the asteroid belt is crowded at all since it is too far
away.
Question 9 (1618380):Why is there an asteroid belt rather than a single object, such as a
planet, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Jupiters gravitational effect serves to gently tug at
the asteroids, preventing them from coalescing into a single larger object such as a planet.
Correct answer(s): Jupiters gravitational effect serves to gently tug at the asteroids,
preventing them from coalescing into a single larger object such as a planet.
Because at some time in the distant past, there was a major collision, which resulted in
the breaking apart of a planet into the asteroids that we see today.
Because the Sun gravitationally pulled debris in from the outer solar system after the
planets had all formed.
None of the above.
Question 10 (1618385):What are the two main reasons for a comets interesting
behavior? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Their
composition, mostly ices, and their highly eccentric orbits.
Correct answer(s): Their composition, mostly rock and metal, and their nearly circular
orbits.
Their composition, mostly ices, and their highly eccentric orbits.
Their composition, mostly ices, and their nearly circular orbits.
Their composition, mostly rock and metal, and their highly eccentric orbits that bring
them close to Jupiter.
Question 1 (1618425):What are the two main factors that control how a Terrestrial
planets surface will evolve? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Size and distance from the Sun (temperature)
Correct answer(s):
Size and distance from the Sun (temperature)
Density and distance from the Sun (temperature)
Size and thickness of atmosphere.
None of the above.
Question 2 (1618431):Which of the following lists two reasons why it is so cold on
Mars? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Mars is far
from the Sun (less warmth from the Sun) and very little greenhouse warming due to its
very thin atmosphere.
Correct answer(s):
Far from the Sun (so less warmth from the Sun) and no volcanoes to warm the surface.
No volcanoes to warm the surface and a thick atmosphere, which prevents sunlight from
penetrating to the surface.
Mars is far from the Sun (less warmth from the Sun) and very little greenhouse warming
due to its very thin atmosphere.
None of the above.
Question 3 (1618429):What properties do Venus and Earth have in common?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Size and Mass
Correct answer(s):
Size and atmospheric composition
Size and Mass
Tectonics and surface temperature
Size and distance from the Sun
Question 4 (1618432):Why is Mars no longer geologically active? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Due to its small size, Marss interior has
cooled to a solid state.
Correct answer(s):
Mars has a hot, molten interior, but its thick crust may be prohibiting any geological
activity.
Due to its small size, Marss interior has cooled to a solid state.
Marss thin atmosphere has halted all geological activity.
Marss magnetosphere has almost disappeared.
Question 5 (1618426):Which factor controls whether or not a planet will have an
atmosphere and how thick it will be? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): Mass
Correct answer(s): Distance from the Sun
Temperature
Density
Mass
Question 6 (1618428):Since the surface of Mercury and Earths Moon are so similar,
which factor was likely most important in shaping their surfaces? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Size
Correct answer(s): Size
Distance from the Sun
Orbital Period
Rotational Period
Question 7 (1618430):What ONE initial difference is ultimately responsible for the vastly
different conditions on Venus compared to Earth? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Distance from the Sun and, therefore, temperature.
Correct answer(s):
Mass and, therefore, density.
Geological activity.
Orbital period.
Distance from the Sun and, therefore, temperature.
Question 8 (1618433):What gas, abundant in Earths atmosphere, is unique to Earth and
where did this gas come from? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Oxygen in the atmosphere is unique to Earth and is produced by vegetation.

Correct answer(s):
Oxygen in the atmosphere is unique to Earth and is produced by vegetation.
CO2 is unique to Earth and came from the oceans..
Nitrogen is unique to Earth and came from volcanic degassing..
None of the above.
Question 1 (1618425):What are the two main factors that control how a Terrestrial
planets surface will evolve? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Size and distance from the Sun (temperature)
Correct answer(s): Size and distance from the Sun (temperature)
Density and distance from the Sun (temperature)
Size and thickness of atmosphere.
None of the above.
Question 2 (1618432):Why is Mars no longer geologically active? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Marss thin atmosphere has halted all
geological activity.
Correct answer(s): Mars has a hot, molten interior, but its thick crust may be prohibiting
any geological activity.
Due to its small size, Marss interior has cooled to a solid state.
Marss thin atmosphere has halted all geological activity.
Marss magnetosphere has almost disappeared.
Question 3 (1618427):Which factor controls whether or not a planet will have geological
activity and how long it will last? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Size
Density
Size
Existence of an atmosphere
Question 4 (1618428):Since the surface of Mercury and Earths Moon are so similar,
which factor was likely most important in shaping their surfaces? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Size
Correct answer(s): Size
Distance from the Sun
Orbital Period
Rotational Period
Question 5 (1618431):Which of the following lists two reasons why it is so cold on
Mars? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Mars is far
from the Sun (less warmth from the Sun) and very little greenhouse warming due to its
very thin atmosphere.
Correct answer(s): Far from the Sun (so less warmth from the Sun) and no volcanoes to
warm the surface.
No volcanoes to warm the surface and a thick atmosphere, which prevents sunlight from
penetrating to the surface.
Mars is far from the Sun (less warmth from the Sun) and very little greenhouse warming
due to its very thin atmosphere.
None of the above.
Question 6 (1618426):Which factor controls whether or not a planet will have an

atmosphere and how thick it will be? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): Mass
Temperature
Density
Mass
Question 7 (1618433):What gas, abundant in Earths atmosphere, is unique to Earth and
where did this gas come from? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Oxygen in the atmosphere is unique to Earth and is produced by vegetation.
Correct answer(s): Oxygen in the atmosphere is unique to Earth and is produced by
vegetation.
CO2 is unique to Earth and came from the oceans..
Nitrogen is unique to Earth and came from volcanic degassing..
None of the above.
Question 8 (1618434):How does the greenhouse effect on Venus differ from the
greenhouse effect on Mars? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Since Marss atmosphere is so thin, very little greenhouse warming occurs
there.
Correct answer(s): There is no difference between the greenhouse effect on Mars and the
greenhouse effect on Venus.
Since Marss atmosphere is so thin, very little greenhouse warming occurs there.
The greenhouse effect is much stronger on Mars than on Venus.
The greenhouse effect is just beginning to happen on Mars, while it has been going on for
a very long time on Venus.
Question 1 (1618466):Why is Jupiters moon, Io, volcanic? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): All of the above.
Correct answer(s):
It is constantly being squeezed and stretched by the tidal forces due to massive Jupiter
and the three other large moons of Jupiter. This produces heat in Ios interior.
Constant bombardment by meteoroids is continually opening up the crust allowing lava
from below to spill out onto the surface.
It is still cooling off from when it formed, so hot material from below works its way to
the surface.
All of the above.
Question 2 (1618471):About how large are the largest Jovian satellites? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): They are all much larger than the
largest Terrestrial planet.
Correct answer(s):
Jupiters largest satellites are similar in size to Terrestrial planets.
They are all much larger than the largest Terrestrial planet.
They are all much smaller than the smallest Terrestrial planet.
They are the size of a typical asteroid.
Question 3 (1618467):What is unusual about Jupiters moon, Europa? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Europa may have a relatively warm,
liquid ocean beneath an ice crust. This would be the only known liquid water ocean other
than those on the surface of the Earth.
Correct answer(s): Europa is the most volcanically active moon in the solar system.
Europa may have a relatively warm, liquid ocean beneath an ice crust. This would be the
only known liquid water ocean other than those on the surface of the Earth.
Europa is the largest moon in the solar system.
The surface of Europa is covered with a liquid water ocean.
Question 4 (1618463):How was the planet Neptune discovered Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Astronomers had noticed that the motion of
Uranus did not agree with what was predicted by Newtons laws of motion. To account
for these perturbations in the motion of Uranus, astronomers posited a massive planet at a
particular place in its orbit beyond Uranus. Subsequent observations of that place reveled
the presence of the planet Neptune.
Correct answer(s): According to the Titus-Bode law, a planet should exist with an orbital
radius of about 19.2 AU. This matches what was discovered by Herschel to be the precise
location of the planet Neptune.
Astronomers had noticed that the motion of Uranus did not agree with what was
predicted by Newtons laws of motion. To account for these perturbations in the motion
of Uranus, astronomers posited a massive planet at a particular place in its orbit beyond
Uranus. Subsequent observations of that place reveled the presence of the planet
Neptune.
The position of the planet Neptune was predicted by Ptolemy when he observed a large
object beyond the orbit of Saturn.
The planet Neptune was predicted by astrologers who felt a presence while computing
horoscopes.
Question 5 (1618468):How is Saturns moon, Titan, able to hold onto its atmosphere?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): It is very cold at Titan.
Cold gases are more easily held in place by gravity, so although Titian is the size of
Mercury, it is able to cling to this gold gas.
Correct answer(s): Titan has no appreciable atmosphere, so the question is meaningless.
Nitrogen is very, very heavy, so Titan is able to hold on even though there is not much
gravity.
Titan does not spin on its axis, so the atmosphere is not thrown off.
It is very cold at Titan. Cold gases are more easily held in place by gravity, so although
Titian is the size of Mercury, it is able to cling to this gold gas.
Question 6 (1618469):What do Europa of Jupiter and Titan of Saturn have in common?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): They are the only two
moons in the solar system with thick atmospheres.
Correct answer(s): They are both interesting from the perspective of the search for life
beyond Earth.
They are both believed to have a liquid water ocean beneath their surfaces.
They are the only two moons in the solar system with thick atmospheres.
They both have evidence of geological activity in the form of volcanoes or guysers.
Question 7 (1618470):What do Io of Jupiter and Triton of Neptune have in common?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): They both have
evidence of geological activity in the form of volcanoes or guysers.
beyond Earth.
Question 8 (1618474):What was the Great Dark Spot? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A large storm system on Neptune, similar to the
Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
Correct answer(s): A large, permanent storm on Jupiter.
A large storm system on Neptune, similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
A large black cloud produced by guysers on the surface of Triton.
A large sink hole on the surface of Titan.
Question 9 (1618461):What are Shepherd Moons? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Shepherd moons are small moons or large ring
particles that serve to keep a ring in place.
Correct answer(s): Shepherd moons are the four largest moons around Jupiter.
Shepherd moons are full moon phases, which occur twice in one calendar month.
Shepherd moons are small moons or large ring particles that serve to keep a ring in place.
Shepherd moons are moons that have their own rings around them.
Question 10 (1618465):What is Jupiters Great Red Spot? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): A long lasting, possibly permanent, storm.
Correct answer(s): A massive impact crater on the surface of Jupiter.
A large hole in the atmosphere of Jupiter revealing lower level atmospheric gases.
A large fire burning in Jupiters upper atmosphere.
A long lasting, possibly permanent, storm.
Question 1 (1618462):How was the position of planet Uranus predicted? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): According to the Titus-Bode law, a
planet should exist with an orbital radius of about 19.2 AU. This matches what was
discovered by Herschel to be the precise location of the planet Uranus.
Correct answer(s): According to the Titus-Bode law, a planet should exist with an orbital
radius of about 19.2 AU. This matches what was discovered by Herschel to be the precise
location of the planet Uranus.
Astronomers had noticed that the motion of Saturn did not agree with what was predicted
by Newtons laws of motion. To account for these perturbations in the motion of Saturn,
astronomers posited a massive planet at a particular place in its orbit beyond saturn.
Subsequent observations of that place reveled the presence of the planet Uranus.
The position of the planet Uranus was predicted by Ptolemy when he observed a large
object beyond the orbit of Saturn.
The planet Uranus was predicted by astrologers who felt a presence while computing
horoscopes.
Question 2 (1618464):Of what two gases are the Jovian planets primarily composed?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Hydrogen and Helium
Correct answer(s): Hydrogen and Methane
Methane and Nitrogen
Hydrogen and Helium
Nitrogen and Helium.
Question 3 (1618458):What is the Roche limit? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The Roche limit is the distance from the center of a
planet, about 2.5 times the radius of the planet, within which the tidal forces are too
strong for the mutual gravitation of the ring particles to pull together to form a moon.
Correct answer(s): The Roche limit is the maximum distance from a planet at which a
moon can form.
The Roche limit is the maximum distance above the surface of a planet at which an
atmosphere can be.

The Roche limit is the distance from the center of a planet, about 2.5 times the radius of
the planet, within which the tidal forces are too strong for the mutual gravitation of the
ring particles to pull together to form a moon.
The Roche limit is the minimum number of moons that a planet can posses.
Question 4 (1618457):How do we think planetary ring systems formed? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Rings were once moons that were
torn apart by the strong tidal forces within the Roche limit of the host planet.
Correct answer(s): Rings were once moons that were torn apart by the strong tidal forces
within the Roche limit of the host planet.
Rings formed from the surrounding solar nebula at the same time that the planets formed.
Rings were formed from material that was spun out of the planets atmospheres due to the
rapid rotation of the Jovians.
None of the above.
Question 5 (1618467):What is unusual about Jupiters moon, Europa? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Europa may have a relatively warm,
liquid ocean beneath an ice crust. This would be the only known liquid water ocean other
than those on the surface of the Earth.
Correct answer(s): Europa is the most volcanically active moon in the solar system.
Europa may have a relatively warm, liquid ocean beneath an ice crust. This would be the
only known liquid water ocean other than those on the surface of the Earth.
Europa is the largest moon in the solar system.
The surface of Europa is covered with a liquid water ocean.
Question 6 (1618466):Why is Jupiters moon, Io, volcanic? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): It is constantly being squeezed and stretched by the
tidal forces due to massive Jupiter and the three other large moons of Jupiter. This
produces heat in Ios interior.
Correct answer(s): It is constantly being squeezed and stretched by the tidal forces due to
massive Jupiter and the three other large moons of Jupiter. This produces heat in Ios
interior.
Constant bombardment by meteoroids is continually opening up the crust allowing lava
from below to spill out onto the surface.
It is still cooling off from when it formed, so hot material from below works its way to
the surface.
All of the above.
Question 7 (1618468):How is Saturns moon, Titan, able to hold onto its atmosphere?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): It is very cold at Titan.
Cold gases are more easily held in place by gravity, so although Titian is the size of
Mercury, it is able to cling to this gold gas.
Correct answer(s): Titan has no appreciable atmosphere, so the question is meaningless.
Nitrogen is very, very heavy, so Titan is able to hold on even though there is not much
gravity.
Titan does not spin on its axis, so the atmosphere is not thrown off.
It is very cold at Titan. Cold gases are more easily held in place by gravity, so although
Titian is the size of Mercury, it is able to cling to this gold gas.
Question 8 (1618460):Why are tidal forces important in Jovian planet systems?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Because the tidal
forces are what ultimately create the ring systems around the Jovian planets.
Correct answer(s): Because tidal forces are responsible for the fact that Jovian planets
have many moons.

Because the tidal forces are what ultimately create the ring systems around the Jovian
planets.
Because tidal forces keep the Jovian planets in orbit around the Sun.
Because tidal forces hold the gases on the Jovian planets.
Question 9 (1618469):What do Europa of Jupiter and Titan of Saturn have in common?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): They are both believed
to have a liquid water ocean beneath their surfaces.
beyond Earth.
Question 10 (1618472):What causes the bluish color of Uranus and Neptune?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The presence of
atmospheric methane gas is responsible for the bluish color of Uranus and Neptune.
Correct answer(s): The presence of atmospheric nitrogen is responsible for the bluish
color of Uranus and Neptune.
They are both covered with liquid water oceans.
The presence of atmospheric methane gas is responsible for the bluish color of Uranus
and Neptune.
None of the above.
Question 1 (1618521):Why must some types of telescopes be placed in orbit?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): To get above the
atmospheric absorption.
Correct answer(s): To get closer to the objects being observed.
Because it is darker there.
To get above the atmospheric absorption.
All of the above.
Question 2 (1618511):On what does the color of light depend? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The speed of the light wave.
Correct answer(s): Wavelength and, therefore, frequency.
The speed of the light wave.
The Amplitude of the light wave.
All of the above.
Question 3 (1618518):Which is more energetic, a red or a violet photon? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Violet
Correct answer(s): Red
Violet
Both are equally energetic.
Question 4 (1618524):What two things can be learned from examining the spectrum of a
star? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Its temperature
and composition.
Correct answer(s): Its mass and its distance from us.
Its mass and its temperature.
Its distance from us and its composition.
Its temperature and composition.

Question 5 (1618520):What are the factors involved in good seeing for a telescope?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): All of the above.
Correct answer(s): Low atmospheric turbulence
Minimal light pollution
Thin atmosphere.
All of the above.
Question 6 (1618517):Which of the following lists the four most common colors of stars
in order from the hottest to the coolest? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): Blue, White, Yellow, Red
Correct answer(s): White, Yellow, Blue, Red
Red, Yellow, White, Blue
Blue, White, Yellow, Red
Red, Blue, White, Yellow
Question 7 (1618519):Which of the following types of electromagnetic waves penetrate
our atmosphere the best? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Radio
Correct answer(s): Ultraviolet
Radio
Infrared
X-Rays
Question 8 (1618514):What type of electromagnetic wave comes from the highest
temperature sources? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
X-Rays
Correct answer(s): X-Rays
Visible
Infrared
Radio
Question 9 (1618516):Which type of electromagnetic wave travels through the vacuum
of space the fastest? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
All electromagnetic waves travel through space at the same speed.
Visible
Radio
All electromagnetic waves travel through space at the same speed.
Question 10 (1618523):Which type of spectrum do stars produce? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Absorption.
Correct answer(s): Thermal or continuous.
Absorption.
Emission.
Reflection.
Question 1 (1618523):Which type of spectrum do stars produce? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Absorption.
Correct answer(s): Thermal or continuous.
Absorption.
Emission.
Reflection.
Question 2 (1618522):What is meant by the size of a telescope? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The diameter of the objective lens or primary
mirror.
Correct answer(s): The diameter of the objective lens or primary mirror.
The storage capacity of the electronic sensors.
The length of the tube.
The distance between the eyepiece and the objective lens.
Question 3 (1618511):On what does the color of light depend? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Wavelength and, therefore, frequency.
Correct answer(s): Wavelength and, therefore, frequency.
The speed of the light wave.
The Amplitude of the light wave.
All of the above.
Question 4 (1618525):Which of the following lists the spectral-types of the four most
common colors of stars in order from coolest to hottest? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): M, K, A, B
Correct answer(s): B, A, K, M
M, K, B, A
M, K, A, B
B, K, M, A
Question 5 (1618521):Why must some types of telescopes be placed in orbit?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): To get above the
atmospheric absorption.
Correct answer(s): To get closer to the objects being observed.
Because it is darker there.
To get above the atmospheric absorption.
All of the above.
Question 6 (1618524):What two things can be learned from examining the spectrum of a
star? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Its temperature
and composition.
Correct answer(s): Its mass and its distance from us.
Its mass and its temperature.
Its distance from us and its composition.
Its temperature and composition.
Question 7 (1618520):What are the factors involved in good seeing for a telescope?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): All of the above.
Correct answer(s): Low atmospheric turbulence
Minimal light pollution
Thin atmosphere.
All of the above.
Question 8 (1618519):Which of the following types of electromagnetic waves penetrate
our atmosphere the best? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Radio
Correct answer(s): Ultraviolet
Radio
Infrared
X-Rays
Question 9 (1618513):What is the shortest wavelength electromagnetic wave?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): X-Rays
Visible
Infrared
Radio
Question 10 (1618515):What type of electromagnetic wave comes from the lowest
temperature sources? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Radio
Visible
Infrared
Radio
Question 1 (1618572):Find the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse in table 9.1. Which is larger?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Betelgeuse
Correct answer(s): Rigel
Betelgeuse
There is not enough information in table 9.1 to answer this question.
Question 2 (1618566):The Suns absolute magnitude is about +4.8. Are most of the stars
in table 9.2 intrinsically brighter or dimmer than the Sun? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Most are intrinsically brighter than the Sun.
Correct answer(s): Most are intrinsically brighter than the Sun.
Most are intrinsically dimmer than the Sun.
Question 3 (1618574):How is the mass of a star determined directly? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): By measuring the absolute
magnitude. The brighter the star, the more massive.
Correct answer(s): By measuring the absolute magnitude. The brighter the star, the more
massive.
By measuring its temperature. The hotter the star, the more massive.
By observing its orbital period about its companion star.
It is not possible to directly determine the mass of a star.
Question 4 (1618563):What is true regarding the actual brightness of most of the stars in
table 9.2? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Most
actually are very bright.
Correct answer(s): Most actually are very dim.
Most actually are very bright.
Question 5 (1618568):On the H-R diagram, __________________ stars are cool and
dim. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Red Dwarf
Correct answer(s): Middle of the Main Sequence (the Sun)
Red Giant
White Dwarf
Blue Giant
Red Dwarf
Question 6 (1618573):Find the stars Wolf 359 and Procyon B in table 9.2. Which is likely
smaller? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Procyon B
Correct answer(s): Procyon B
Wolf 359
Question 7 (1618569):On the H-R diagram, __________________ stars are cool, but
bright. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Red Giant
Red Giant
White Dwarf
Blue Giant
Red Dwarf
Question 8 (1618564):Proxima Centauri has a parallax angle of 0.772 seconds of arc.
What should be true about the parallax angles of all other stars in table 9.2?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): They will all have
larger parallax angles.
Correct answer(s): They will all have larger parallax angles.
They will all have smaller parallax angles.
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Most are intrinsically brighter than the Sun.
Question 10 (1618557):If other stars in table 9.1 (textbook) are more luminous than
Sirius, how can Sirius appear the brightest of all stars? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): It is much further away than most stars.
Correct answer(s): It is much further away than most stars.
It must be much bigger than the other stars.
It is closer than most stars.
The question does not make sense because Sirius does NOT appear bright.
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Most are intrinsically dimmer than the Sun.
Question 2 (1618559):What color are the hottest stars in table 9.1? Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Blue
Correct answer(s): Red
Blue
Yellow
Question 3 (1618575):How do the masses of stars on the upper-left corner of the H-R
diagram compare to the masses of stars at the lower-right of the H-R diagram?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): They are more
massive.
Correct answer(s): They are more massive.
They are less massive.
They are about the same mass.
There is no way to tell the difference.
Question 4 (1618562):Now refer to table 9.2 in the text. What is true regarding the
apparent brightness of most of the stars in table 9.2? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Most appear very dim.
Correct answer(s): Most appear very dim.
Most appear very bright.
Question 5 (1618572):Find the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse in table 9.1. Which is larger?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Betelgeuse
Correct answer(s): Rigel
Betelgeuse
Question 6 (1618563):What is true regarding the actual brightness of most of the stars in
table 9.2? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Most
actually are very dim.
Correct answer(s): Most actually are very dim.
Most actually are very bright.
Question 7 (1618557):If other stars in table 9.1 (textbook) are more luminous than Sirius,
how can Sirius appear the brightest of all stars? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): It is closer than most stars.
Correct answer(s): It is much further away than most stars.
It must be much bigger than the other stars.
It is closer than most stars.
The question does not make sense because Sirius does NOT appear bright.
Question 8 (1618568):On the H-R diagram, __________________ stars are cool and
dim. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Red Dwarf
Red Giant
White Dwarf
Blue Giant
Red Dwarf
Question 9 (1618558):Which stars in Table 9.1 are among the hottest? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Sirius and Deneb
Correct answer(s): Betelgeuse and Antares
Sirius and Deneb
Spica and Hadar
Question 10 (1618571):On the H-R diagram, __________________ stars are between hot
and cool and between dim and bright. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): Middle of the Main Sequence (the Sun)
Red Giant
White Dwarf
Blue Giant
Red Dwarf
Question 1 (1618622):Which of the following lists the layers of the Sun in order from
innermost to outermost. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Core, Radiation Zone, Convection Zone, Photosphere, Chromosphere,
Corona.
Correct answer(s): Nucleus, Convection Zone, Radiation Zone, Photosphere,
Chromosphere, Corona.
Core, Photosphere, Radiation Zone, Convection Zone, Chromosphere, Corona.
Corona, Chromosphere, Photosphere, Convective Zone, Radiative Zone, Core.
Core, Radiation Zone, Convection Zone, Photosphere, Chromosphere, Corona.
Question 2 (1618625):The state in which a stars gravitational collapse is balanced
between gravity pushing inward and gas pressure pushing outward is called
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Hydrostatic
equilibrium
Correct answer(s): Thermonuclear Fusion
The Photosphere
Hydrostatic equilibrium
A Supernova Explosion
Question 3 (1618621):What is the energy source for Main Sequence stars? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Thermonuclear fusion of Hydrogen
into Helium.
Correct answer(s): Thermonuclear fusion of Helium into Carbon.
Thermonuclear fusion of Hydrogen into Helium.
Chemical burning of coal and/or oil.
Supernova explosions in their cores.
Question 4 (1618620):A _____________ is a massive object that forms inside a
gravitationally collapsing nebula. The object will eventually become a star. Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Protostar
Correct answer(s): Main Sequence star
Black Hole
Protostar
Brown Dwarf
Question 5 (1618619):What objects are considered the birthplace of stars?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Nebulae composed
primarily of hydrogen gas and dust.
Correct answer(s): Nebulae composed primarily of hydrogen gas and dust.
Hot gas clouds composed mostly of heavy elements such as Iron and Lead.
In deep space where there are no other stars, planets or nebulae.
The center of galaxies.
Question 6 (1618624):What is the relationship between the mass of a star and how long
the star will live? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Higher mass stars live shorter lives.
Correct answer(s): Higher mass stars live shorter lives.
Higher mass stars live longer lives.
The mass is not a factor in the lifespan of a star.
Question 7 (1618631):How do we detect black holes? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): By examining surrounding material that is affected
by the strong gravitational pull of a black hole.
Correct answer(s): By sending space probes into their vicinity and measuring their
motion.
By direct observation.
By examining surrounding material that is affected by the strong gravitational pull of a
black hole.
We cannot detect Black Holes.
Question 8 (1618627):What type of object could be described as almost, but not quite a
star? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Brown Dwarf
Correct answer(s): Planet
Red Dwarf
Brown Dwarf
None of the above
Question 9 (1618628):When a Red Giant finally throws off about half of its mass into
space, it forms a Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s):
Planetary Nebula
Correct answer(s): Planetary Nebula
Supernova Explosion
Black Hole
Protostar
Question 10 (1618623):A group of hundreds or even thousands of stars which formed
from a single nebula is called a Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Star Cluster
Correct answer(s): Constellation
Star Cluster
A Solar System
A Galaxy
Question 1 (1618671):Which of the following lists the four types of galaxies identified by
Edwin Hubble. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Spiral,
Barred-Spiral, Elliptical and Irregular
Correct answer(s): Spiral, Barred-Spiral, Elliptical and Irregular
Spiral, Milky Way, Elliptical and Irregular
Elliptical, Quasar, Spiral and Irregular
Elliptical, Irregular, Nebular, Spiral
Question 2 (1618669):The Chapley-Curtis Debate concerned the location of
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Spiral Nebulae.
Correct answer(s): The Milky Way galaxy.
Spiral Nebulae.
The Sun within the Milky Way galaxy.
Center of the Universe.

Question 3 (1618674):On the Hubble distance ladder, which technique is useful for
determining the distances to objects located about 100 parsecs away? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Parallax
Correct answer(s): Radar
Hubbles Law
Measuring the period of variable stars and applying the Period-Luminosity relationship.
Parallax
Question 4 (1618670):How was the Shapley-Curtis Debate resolved? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Astronomer Edwin Hubble was able
to determine that the distance to a variable star in the Andromeda nebula was over a
million light-years away.
Correct answer(s): The debate has yet to be resolved.
Harlow Shapley won the debate stating that the Spiral Nebulae were within our own
Milky way galaxy.
Herber Curtis won the debate by stating that the Spiral Nebulae were independent
galaxies.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the distance to a variable star in the
Andromeda nebula was over a million light-years away.
Question 5 (1618672):The Milky Way galaxy is most likely an example of which type of
galaxy? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Irregular
Correct answer(s): Spiral
Barred Spiral
Elliptical
Irregular
Question 6 (1618668):Currently, the Sun is thought to be located in the galactic
_____________ about ____________ the center of the galaxy. Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Disk, 28 thousand light-years from
Correct answer(s): Halo, 5 thousand light-years from
Nucleus, very near
Disk, 28 thousand light-years from
Disk, 100,000 light-years from
Question 7 (1618676):What are found at the centers of most galaxies? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Supermassive Black Holes.
Correct answer(s): Supermassive Black Holes.
Nothing.
Extremely massive, bright stars.
Pulsars
determining the distance to an object located beyond 15 million parsecs away.
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Hubbles Law
Hubbles Law
Parallax
Question 1 (1618668):Currently, the Sun is thought to be located in the galactic
_____________ about ____________ the center of the galaxy. Type:Multiple Choice

Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Disk, 28 thousand light-years from
Correct answer(s): Halo, 5 thousand light-years from
Nucleus, very near
Disk, 28 thousand light-years from
Disk, 100,000 light-years from
Question 2 (1618671):Which of the following lists the four types of galaxies identified by
Edwin Hubble. Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Spiral,
Barred-Spiral, Elliptical and Irregular
Correct answer(s): Spiral, Barred-Spiral, Elliptical and Irregular
Spiral, Milky Way, Elliptical and Irregular
Elliptical, Quasar, Spiral and Irregular
Elliptical, Irregular, Nebular, Spiral
Question 3 (1618673):The shape of our galaxy was determined on the inside looking
out by surveying the Milky Way using ____________ telescopes. Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Infrared
Correct answer(s): Optical
X-Ray
Radio
Infrared
Question 4 (1618669):The Chapley-Curtis Debate concerned the location of
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Spiral Nebulae.
Correct answer(s): The Milky Way galaxy.
Spiral Nebulae.
The Sun within the Milky Way galaxy.
Center of the Universe.
Question 5 (1618676):What are found at the centers of most galaxies? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Supermassive Black Holes.
Correct answer(s): Supermassive Black Holes.
Nothing.
Extremely massive, bright stars.
Pulsars
Question 6 (1618670):How was the Shapley-Curtis Debate resolved? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Astronomer Edwin Hubble was able
to determine that the distance to a variable star in the Andromeda nebula was over a
million light-years away.
Correct answer(s): The debate has yet to be resolved.
Harlow Shapley won the debate stating that the Spiral Nebulae were within our own
Milky way galaxy.
Herber Curtis won the debate by stating that the Spiral Nebulae were independent
galaxies.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble was able to determine that the distance to a variable star in the
Andromeda nebula was over a million light-years away.
determining the distances to objects located about 100 parsecs away? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Measuring the period of variable
stars and applying the Period-Luminosity relationship.
Hubbles Law
Parallax
determining the distance to an object located beyond 15 million parsecs away.
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Measuring the period
of variable stars and applying the Period-Luminosity relationship.
Hubbles Law
Parallax
Question 1 (1817664):What is the cosmological redshift? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The stretching of the wavelength of light that occurs
by virtue of the fact that cosmic background photons have been traveling through space,
which is itself expanding, for billions of years.
Correct answer(s): The redshifting of light due to the motion of the emitting object away
from the observer.
The redshifting of light due to the motion of the emitting object away from the observer.
The stretching of the wavelength of light that occurs by virtue of the fact that cosmic
background photons have been traveling through space, which is itself expanding, for
billions of years.
The slope of the plot of galaxy recessional velocity vs. distance.
Question 2 (1817665):If all galaxies are moving away from us and the further ones are
moving more rapidly, we know that Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): The Universe is expanding, but there is no preferred or special location
in the Universe in order to observe this. Any observer in any galaxy would observe the
same motions in the Universe.
Correct answer(s): The Universe is expanding, but there is no preferred or special
location in the Universe in order to observe this. Any observer in any galaxy would
observe the same motions in the Universe.
It is most likely some sort of illusion. The Universe is forever unchanging.
The Universe is expanding and we are located at the center of that expansion.
This motion will eventually reverse itself and the Universe will shrink.
Question 3 (1817666):The Universe is ______________ years old. Type:Multiple Choice
Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 13.7 billion
Correct answer(s): 18 billion
13.7 billion
6,000
an infinite number of
Question 4 (1817667):How do we estimate the age of the Universe? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): By measuring the recession velocities
and the distances of distant galaxies and noticing that these parameters are intimately
related to time.
Correct answer(s): By observing the rotation rate of spiral galaxies and determining when
they must have begun to rotate.
By reading ancient texts, which instruct us on the origin of the Universe.
By examining the spectra of Cepheid Variable stars in neighboring galaxies.
By measuring the recession velocities and the distances of distant galaxies and noticing
that these parameters are intimately related to time.
Question 5 (1817668):What is the cosmic horizon? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The maximum distance from us through which light
from any object has had time to travel since the Big Bang.
Correct answer(s): The maximum distance from us through which light from any object
has had time to travel since the Big Bang.
The distance from a black hole at which the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light.
The distance at which the curvature of the Universe prohibits us from seeing over the
horizon.
A space probe tasked with measuring the temperature of the cosmic microwave
background radiation.
Question 6 (1817669):According to the Big Bang Theory, the density and temperature of
the Universe is ___________ now than in the past. Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): lower
Correct answer(s): higher
lower
about the same
(all of the above)
Question 7 (1817670):What happened before the Big Bang? Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): From a theoretical standpoint, the question is
meaningless since time itself was created at the Big Bang.
Correct answer(s): There was a Big Crunch of the previous Universe.
Something exploded.
From a theoretical standpoint, the question is meaningless since time itself was created at
the Big Bang.
A black hole formed followed by its disintegration and subsequent explosion.
Question 8 (1817671):What evidence is there for the Big Bang theory? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): The presence of Cosmic Microwave
Background radiation, the behavior of subatomic particles in particle physics experiments
and the information received from distant quasars.
Correct answer(s): There is no evidence to support the Big Bang theory.
We can actually witness the moment of the Big Bang by examining images collected by
the Hubble Space Telescope.
The fact that life has emerged on at least one planet is evidence enough that the Big Bang
theory is correct.
The presence of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, the behavior of subatomic
particles in particle physics experiments and the information received from distant
quasars.
Question 9 (1817672):A quasar is Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): an infant galaxy, observed with a long look-back time as it was forming.
Correct answer(s): a supernova explosion in a distant galaxy.
an infant galaxy, observed with a long look-back time as it was forming.
a galaxy that formed purely from dark matter.
The force responsible for the increased expansion rate of the Universe.
Question 10 (1817673):The inflation period was proposed Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): because the Universe has a very uniform
temperature profile and matter seems to have clumped into galaxies leaving mostly empty
space.
Correct answer(s): to account for the observed expansion of the Universe.
as a joke to ridicule those scientists who insist that the Universe is steady state.
because the Universe has a very uniform temperature profile and matter seems to have
clumped into galaxies leaving mostly empty space.
to counteract Einsteins cosmological constant.
Question 11 (1817674):Dark matter is Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): unseen mass that accounts for the observed orbital velocities of stars in
rotating galaxies and in the behavior of galactic clusters.
Correct answer(s): anything that reflects very little light or no light at all.
composed of atoms and molecules that are inside gaseous nebulae.
not real. There is no evidence for its existence.
unseen mass that accounts for the observed orbital velocities of stars in rotating galaxies
and in the behavior of galactic clusters.
Question 12 (1817675):Dark Energy is Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00
Your Answer(s): the repulsive force responsible for the increasing expansion rate of the
Universe.
Correct answer(s): the repulsive force responsible for the increasing expansion rate of the
Universe.
The attractive force, like gravity, that will eventually pull everything together in a Big
Crunch.
unseen mass that accounts for the observed orbital velocities of stars in rotating galaxies
and in the behavior of galactic clusters.
not real. There is no evidence for its existence.
Question 13 (1817676):Based on current data, the ultimate fate of the Universe is that
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): the Universe will
continue to expand and the expansion rate will continue to increase.
Correct answer(s): the expansion will halt and then reverse, with the Universe ending in a
Big Crunch.
the expansion will eventually halt in an infinite amount of time.
the Universe will continue to expand at the same rate that has been since the Big Bang.
the Universe will continue to expand and the expansion rate will continue to increase.
Question 14 (1817677):Why do some believe that the Universe is fine-tuned for life?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Because many of the
fundamental constants of nature, in a Universe where life emerged, are fine-tuned to the
extent that if they were different by even a very small amount, life would not have
emerged at all.
Correct answer(s): Because we humans must have a reason for being here.
Because intelligent life must be the ultimate goal of any Universe designed by a supreme
being.
Because many of the fundamental constants of nature, in a Universe where life emerged,
are fine-tuned to the extent that if they were different by even a very small amount, life
would not have emerged at all.
Because many of the fundamental constants of nature are changing as the Universe gets
older and we know that these constants changed right at the time that life was emerging
on Earth.
Question 1 (1857900):What was produced in the Miller-Urey experiment? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Amino acids

Correct answer(s): Single-celled micro-organisms
Bacteria
Amino acids
Nothing
Question 2 (1857901):Is there life on Mars? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 /
1.00 Your Answer(s): Yes, but only in the form of micro-organisms.
Correct answer(s): There is no definitive evidence that life exists or has ever existed on
Mars.
Yes, but only in the form of micro-organisms.
There is currently no life on Mars, but there was in the past.
Yes. There is a civilization which has built clearly visible canals to bring water from the
melting ice-caps to the cities and towns speckled across the surface of the planet.
Question 3 (1857902):In addition to earth and Mars, _________ and _________ are
considered to be promising places in our solar system where life might develop.
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Titan, Europa
Correct answer(s): Mars, Europa
Titan, Europa
Europa, Jupiter
Mars, Venus
Question 4 (1857903):The Drake Equation Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 /
1.00 Your Answer(s): Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in our galaxy
that may harbor technically communicative life-forms.
Correct answer(s): Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in the Universe
Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in the Solar System that may harbor
technically communicative life-forms.
Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in our galaxy that may harbor lifeforms of any kind, no matter how primitive they may be.
Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in our galaxy that may harbor
Question 5 (1857904):The most likely method of communication with extra-terrestrial
life-forms is probably through Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Radio
Correct answer(s): Radio
Interstellar space travel (spacecraft).
Smoke Signals.
Question 6 (1857905):The letters SETI stand for the Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Correct answer(s): Search for Extra-Terrestrial Invaders.
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Sourcebook of Extrasensory Transient Incidents.
Search for Evidence of Terrestrial-planet Inhabitants.
Question 7 (1857906):Project SETI has been ongoing for about ________ years and has
so far communicated with __________ other civilizations. Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 50, zero
Correct answer(s): 10, zero
2,000, several
50, zero
100, 2
Question 8 (1857907):What are the chances that radio transmissions from Earth or
messages sent on distant space probes will ever be received by living beings?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Very low.
Correct answer(s): About 50%.
Extremely high.
Very low.
Question 1 (1857900):What was produced in the Miller-Urey experiment? Type:Multiple
Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Amino acids
Correct answer(s): Single-celled micro-organisms
Bacteria
Amino acids
Nothing
Question 2 (1857901):Is there life on Mars? Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 /
1.00 Your Answer(s): There is no definitive evidence that life exists or has ever existed on
Mars.
Correct answer(s): There is no definitive evidence that life exists or has ever existed on
Mars.
Yes, but only in the form of micro-organisms.
There is currently no life on Mars, but there was in the past.
Yes. There is a civilization which has built clearly visible canals to bring water from the
melting ice-caps to the cities and towns speckled across the surface of the planet.
Question 3 (1857902):In addition to earth and Mars, _________ and _________ are
considered to be promising places in our solar system where life might develop.
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Titan, Europa
Correct answer(s): Mars, Europa
Titan, Europa
Europa, Jupiter
Mars, Venus
Question 4 (1857903):The Drake Equation Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 /
1.00 Your Answer(s): Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in our galaxy
Correct answer(s): Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in the Universe
Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in the Solar System that may harbor
Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in our galaxy that may harbor lifeforms of any kind, no matter how primitive they may be.
Provides an estimate of how many planets there are in our galaxy that may harbor
Question 5 (1857904):The most likely method of communication with extra-terrestrial
life-forms is probably through Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your
Answer(s): Radio
Correct answer(s): Radio
Interstellar space travel (spacecraft).
Smoke Signals.
Question 6 (1857905):The letters SETI stand for the Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Correct answer(s): Search for Extra-Terrestrial Invaders.
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Sourcebook of Extrasensory Transient Incidents.
Search for Evidence of Terrestrial-planet Inhabitants.
Question 7 (1857906):Project SETI has been ongoing for about ________ years and has
so far communicated with __________ other civilizations. Type:Multiple Choice Points
awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 50, zero
Correct answer(s): 10, zero
2,000, several
50, zero
100, 2
Question 8 (1857907):What are the chances that radio transmissions from Earth or
messages sent on distant space probes will ever be received by living beings?
Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Very low.
Correct answer(s): About 50%.
Extremely high.
Very low.

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Question 1 (1569564):One Light Year (LY) is equivalent to about how many kilometers?

Type:Multiple Choice Points awarded:0.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): 9.45x1015

Question 8 (1569557):What is the diameter of the Earth in kilometers? Type:Multiple

awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): His accurate and comprehensive astronomical

Correct answer(s): Rock and Metal

Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Jovian

their common center of mass.

A meteoroid is a comets coma. A meteor is a comets tail and a meteorite is a comet

Comets eventually disintegrate after several passes close to the Sun.

Silicated Iron and Stoney Iron Meteorites.

Question 8 (1618382):How crowded is the Asteroid Belt? Do spacecraft have trouble

Answer(s): Oxygen in the atmosphere is unique to Earth and is produced by vegetation.

Question 6 (1618426):Which factor controls whether or not a planet will have an

atmosphere can be.

have many moons.

Its temperature and composition.

Center of the Universe.

_ about the center of the galaxy. Type:Multiple Choice

Choice Points awarded:1.00 / 1.00 Your Answer(s): Amino acids

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