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Astronomy Week #1 Questions: 1. What is the largest dimension you have personal knowledge about? How would you describe its size? 2. Why are light-years more convenient than miles, kilometers, or astronomical units for measuring certain distances? 3. The diameter of Earth is 7928 mi. What is its diameter in inches? In yards? 4. 1 astronomical unit is about 150,000,000 km. Venus orbits 0.7 AU from the sun. What is that distance in kilometers? 5. If the speed of light is 300,000 km/sec how many kilometers are in a light year? How many meters? 6. The sun is almost 400 times farther from Earth than is the moon. How long light from the moon take to reach Earth? 7. Explain why we are looking back into time when we observe very distant stars and galaxies. 8. Name the types of electromagnetic radiation. 9. Explain why a light year is a unit of distance. 10. Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? 11. How do constellations relate to patterns of stars? 12. How are constellations like states? 13. What is the latitude of the North Pole of the Earth? Why is it impossible to give the longitude of the Earth’s North Pole? 14. Why is the North Star used for navigation? 15. What happens to the location of constellations as we approach the winter season? Why? 16. What is the difference between as asterism and a constellation? 17. Distinguish between a hypothesis and a theory? Give an example of each. 18. What is the difference between a science and a pseudoscience? Give an example of each. 19. An asteroid is found is space with a constant speed of 4.0 x 10³ m/s. How far does it travel in 2 minutes? 20. Why must scientific results be reproducible?