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Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Although electromagnetic waves differ in their wavelengths, they all travel at the speed of light, which is
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a. 300,000 km/s
c. 100 km/s
b. 6,000 km/h
d. 10,000 km/s
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2. In a ____ telescope, light passes through convex lenses.
a. reflecting
c. refracting
b. Hubble
d. shuttle
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3. Space stations are ____.
a. satellites
b. space probes
c. either a or b
d. neither a nor b
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4. Optical telescopes include ____.
a. reflecting telescopes and refracting telescopes
b. reflecting telescopes only
c. refracting telescopes only
d. radio telescopes only
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5. A rocket is a motor that can burn fuel without requiring ____.
a. water
c. electricity
b. air
d. fire
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6. ____ telescopes collect and record radio waves given off by some objects in space.
a. Radio
c. Refracting
b. Optical
d. Reflecting
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7. An artificial satellite is a spacecraft that ____.
a. completes only one orbit
b. is built by humans and orbits another object
c. travels outward across the entire solar system
d. orbits beyond the orbit of the Sun
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8. A space probe is a spacecraft that ____.
a. completes only one orbit
b. is built and launched by humans
c. gathers information and sends it back to Earth
d. both b and c
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9. The first human to step onto the Moon was ____.
a. Neil Armstrong
c. Michael Collins
b. Edwin Aldrin
d. Yuri A. Gagarin
____ 10. A characteristic of the space shuttle is that ____.
a. it is reusable
b. it can land like an airplane
c. the cargo bay can be used for a wide variety of tasks
d. all of the above
____ 11. Methane absorbs the red and yellow light on ____, while the clouds of these planets reflect the green and blue
light.
a. Venus and Earth
c. Saturn and Jupiter
b. Uranus and Neptune
d. Neptune and Venus
____ 12. ____ has colorful clouds in bands of white, red, tan, and brown.
a. Saturn
c. Jupiter
b. Uranus
d. Neptune
____ 13. Most of the frozen ice in a comet's ____ vaporizes after the comet's many trips around the Sun.
a. coma
c. heart
b. tail
d. nucleus
____ 14. Vaporized gases and released dust form a bright cloud called a(n) ____ around the solid part of a comet.
a. coma
c. heart
b. core
d. nucleus
____ 15. In 1543, ____ published his views of Earth and other planets revolving around the Sun.
a. Kepler
c. Copernicus
b. Magellan
d. Galileo
____ 16. Two of the inner planets are ____.
a. Venus and Saturn
b. Mars and Venus
c. Earth and Pluto
d. Mercury and Jupiter
____ 17. Pluto is different from the outer planets because ____.
a. it may have been a moon of an inner planet that escaped
b. it formed near Earth and moved outward
c. it is close to the inner planets
d. none of the above
____ 18. Pluto is considered a ____ planet.
a. large
b. dwarf
c. small
d. huge
____ 19. Scientists hypothesize that the Sun formed ____.
a. less than a billion years ago
c. less than a million years ago
b. from a cloud of gas and dust
d. from a chunk of Jupiter
____ 20. Which is not a dwarf planet?
a. Pluto
b. Eris
c. Mercury
d. Ceres
____ 21. The order of the inner planets outward from the Sun is ____.
a. Mercury, Earth, Venus, and Mars
c. Mars, Venus, Earth, and Mercury
b. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
d. Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury
____ 22. The orbits of ____ lie closer to the Sun than does Earth's orbit.
a. Mercury and Mars
c. Mars and Venus
b. Mercury and Venus
d. Jupiter and Mercury
____ 23. Venus and Earth both experience a ____ because of heat trapped by their atmospheres.
a. cloud cover
b. slow rotation
c. greenhouse effect
d. cooling effect
____ 24. The positions of the constellations appear to change throughout the year because ____.
a. Earth revolves around the Moon
b. Earth revolves around the Sun
c. the constellations revolve around Earth
d. the Sun revolves around Earth
____ 25. The distances to nearby stars can be measured by using ____.
a. absolute magnitude
c. color
b. temperature
d. parallax
____ 26. The hottest stars in space are ____ in color.
a. yellow
b. red
c. blue
d. white
____ 27. The intense magnetic fields of sunspots cause archlike eruptions called ____.
a. solar eclipses
c. photospheres
b. corona
d. prominences
____ 28. Our Sun is NOT ____.
a. a part of a binary system
b. a main sequence star
c. in a galaxy
d. a medium hot star
____ 29. A galaxy that has a shape similar to a football is a(n) ____ galaxy.
a. normal spiral
c. elliptical
b. barred spiral
d. irregular
____ 30. All of the following are true of the Milky Way EXCEPT that it ____.
a. is a spiral galaxy
c. is a member of the Local Group
b. has more than 800 billion stars
d. is 100,000 light-years across
____ 31. A ____ is a region so dense that nothing, including light, can escape its gravity field.
a. supernova
c. black hole
b. white dwarf
d. supergiant
____ 32. A sequence of star colors from hottest to coolest is ____.
a. blue, yellow, orange, red
c. blue, red, yellow, orange
b. red, orange, yellow, blue
d. yellow, blue, orange, red
____ 33. Two stars orbit each other in a(n) ____ star system.
a. binary
c. single
b. closed
d. individual
____ 34. The spiral shape of the Milky Way Galaxy CANNOT be seen from Earth because ____.
a. we are located above the galaxy
b. we are located within one of its spiral arms
c. our view is blocked by the Sun
d. none of the above
Matching
Match the letter shown in Figure 22-1 with the correct term below.
Figure 22-1
____ 35. focal point
____ 36. eyepiece lens
____ 37. concave mirror
____ 38. objective lens
____ 39. reflecting telescope
____ 40. refracting telescope
second 9 weeks benchmark test
Answer Section
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