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