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