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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #2
A Three to four days
B Two weeks
C One month
D One week
Question #3
A the corona of the sun.
B the photosphere of the sun.
C prominences.
D the chromosphere of the sun.
Question #4
A New phase and below the plane of Earth’s orbit.
B Full phase and crossing Earth’s orbital plane.
C Full phase and below the plane of Earth’s orbit.
D None of these.
E New phase and crossing Earth’s orbital plane.
Question #5
A summer solstice and the winter solstice.
B autumnal equinox and the vernal equinox.
C the sun is always on the celestial equator.
D the sun is on the ecliptic and is never on the celestial equator.
Question #6
A Winter solstice
B Summer solstice
C Autumnal equinox
D Vernal equinox
Question #7
A In some phases, the Moon can be observed during the day.
B Everyone on Earth observes the same phase of the Moon on a given night.
C The observed phase of the Moon changes over the course of one night.
D The phases of the Moon cycle with a period of approximately one month.
Question #8
A less than half
B half
C more than half
D none
E all
Question #9
A None of these.
B The large communications satellite will have an orbital period that is half as long as weather satellite.
C The large communications satellite will have an orbital period that is more than twice as long as the weather satellite.
D The large communications satellite will have an orbital period that is twice as long as the weather satellite.
Question #10
A Tycho Brahe
B Galileo Galilei
C Isaac Newton
D Johannes Kepler
E Nicholas Copernicus
Question #11
A traveled in elliptical orbits.
B were allowed to travel backwards in their orbits.
C traveled on epicycles whose centers followed orbits around the Earth.
D travel in circular orbits with uniform motion.
Question #12
A The moons appeared to be too small, and therefore too far away, to be considered part of the solar system.
B The moons did not appear to orbit the Sun.
C The moons did not appear to orbit the Earth.
D The moons moved in non-circular orbits about Jupiter.
Question #13
A was heliocentric.
B included elliptical orbits.
C contained epicycles.
D is the model we currently use.
Question #14
A that Saturn has rings
B that Jupiter has several moons orbiting it
C that the Sun rotates on its axis
D that Venus goes through phases
E that Mars moves with retrograde motion
Question #15
A the dividing line between the north and south celestial hemispheres.
B both the dividing line between the north and south celestial hemispheres and the path that the sun appears to follow on the celestial sphere as Earth orbits the sun.
C the path that the sun appears to follow on the celestial sphere as Earth orbits the sun.
D both a line around the sky directly above Earth’s equator and the dividing line between the north and south celestial hemispheres.
E a line around the sky directly above Earth’s equator.
Question #16
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #17
A The revolution of the Sun around the Earth
B The revolution of the Earth around the Sun
C The Earth’s rotation on its axis
D The revolution of the Moon around the Earth
Question #18
A our latitude is +35°
B our longitude is +35°
C our longitude is +55°
D our latitude is +55°
Question #19
A Newton’s 3rd Law
B Newton’s Law of Gravitation
C Newton’s 1st Law
D Newton’s 2nd Law
Question #20
A move the moon two times closer to Earth.
B None of the changes listed could cause the force to increase.
C All of the changes listed would cause the same increase in the force.
D double the mass of the Moon.
E double the mass of Earth.
Question #21
A noon and midnight.
B third quarter and full moons.
C new moon and first quarter moon.
D first quarter and third quarter moons.
E new moon and full moon.
Question #22
A The tides on Earth are caused by the pull of the Moon’s gravity.
B The tides on Earth are caused by the tilt in the Earth’s axis.
C The tides on Earth are caused by changes in the Earth’s orbital speed.
D The tides on Earth are caused by the pull of the Sun’s gravity.
Question #23
A Its velocity is not zero.
B There is an unbalanced force acting on it.
C Its acceleration is not zero.
D Its acceleration is zero.
Question #24
A Isaac Newton
B Tycho Brahe
C Johannes Kepler
D Nicolaus Copernicus