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Astronomy Spring Final Review
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1. What are the features of the Moon and how were they formed?
2. What are the characteristics of eclipses?
3. Describe the orbits of asteroids and comets. Do they ever cross Earth’s orbit?
4. Which planets have magnetospheres, and how are they formed? Which planets do not have
magnetospheres?
5. Describe the climates, atmospheres, and geologies of the planets.
6. Which planets have tectonic activity?
7. When does the far side of the moon face the Earth?
8. What are the theories of how the Moon was formed?
9. How does the Moon affect Earth’s climate?
10. When does the full moon rise and set? When does the new moon rise and set? Is the moon the same size on
the horizon as it is high in the sky?
11. Why is Mercury the most battered planet in the solar system?
12. Describe the atmosphere and geology of Venus. How are the features of Venus named?
13. How does the greenhouse effect on Venus compare to the greenhouse effect on Mars?
14. What is unusual about the movement of Mars as seen from Earth?
15. What is the primary component of the atmosphere of Mars? Venus?
16. How effective would it be to use nuclear weapons against an asteroid?
17. What is not found above the K-T boundary?
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18. Why did ancient peoples (and some modern ones) consider comets to be omens?
19. Why did the Kuiper Belt not condense into a planet?
20. How many tails do comets have?
21. What are the moons of Jupiter? What are their characteristics?
22. Which planet was discovered using a telescope and which was discovered using mathematics?
23. Which of Jupiter’s moons has the greatest likelihood of having life? Saturn’s?
24. What two elements are most plentiful in the Sun?
25. How does nuclear fusion produce energy?
26. Describe the stellar magnitude system invented by Hipparchus.
27. What is a measure of the total power radiated by a star?
28. What can we learn about a star from its color?
29. What is the relationship between the size of a star and its lifespan?
30. What element is the key component in stars?
31. How do stars end their lives? What determines the ending?
32. What is the nearest large galaxy to ours? What is our galactic neighborhood called?
33. How old do we think the universe is?
34. Describe the following missions:
A. Voyager
D. Dawn
B. Mars rovers
E. NEAR
C. Viking
F. New Horizons
35. Terms to know:
A. Quasar
G. Stardust
H. Coronal Mass Ejections
O. emission nebula
B. Spacetime
I. Flares
P. planetary nebula
C. Roche limit
J. Prominences
Q. Event Horizon
D. Galilean Moons
K. Sunspots
R. Singularity
E. K-T boundary
L. absolute brightness
F. Trojan asteroids
M. apparent brightness
G. Axial tilt
N. luminosity
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The Moon
36. When does the far side of the moon face the Earth?
37. Which theory of lunar formation states that a Mars sized object that formed in Earth’s accretion region
slams into early Earth?
38. How does the Moon affect Earth’s climate?
39. Is the moon the same size on the horizon as it is high in the sky?
40. When does the full moon rise?
41. When does the full moon set?
42. When does the new moon rise?
43. When does the new moon set?
44. What is the name given to the dark areas on the Moon?
Mercury,Venus, and Mars
45. Why is Mercury the most battered planet in the solar system?
46. What is the primary component of the atmosphere of Venus, and what is its source?
47. What have geologists concluded about the surface of Venus?
48. What lead them to reach that conclusion?
49. Most features of Venus have what kind of names?
50. What is unusual about the movement of Mars as seen from Earth?
51. What is the primary component of the atmosphere of Mars?
52. Mars is said to have experienced a “reverse greenhouse” effect. What does this mean?
53. What is notable about the magnetosphere of Mars?
Solar System Debris
54. How effective would it be to use nuclear weapons against an asteroid?
55. What holds the Trojan asteroids in the position 60º ahead of and behind Jupiter?
56. What is not found above the K-T boundary?
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57. Why did ancient peoples (and some modern ones) consider comets to be omens?
58. Why did the Kuiper Belt not condense into a planet?
59. How many tails do comets have?
Gas Giants
60. Which planet has the largest magnetosphere?
61. How is Jupiter’s magnetic field generated?
62. Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are referred to as what type of moons?
63. Which moon is the most geologically active body in the solar system?
64. Which of Jupiter’s moons most likely has a liquid ocean beneath its crust that may contain life?
65. Which planet was the first to be discovered using a telescope?
66. Which planet was the first to be discovered using mathematics?
67. Which of Saturn’s moons has the greatest likelihood of having life?
68. Which of Jupiter’s moons has the greatest likelihood of having life?
69. What is the name of the limit at which satellite moons are torn apart to form rings?
The Sun
70. What two elements are most plentiful in the Sun?
71. How does nuclear fusion produce energy?
72. What are the relatively dark blemishes on the solar surface?
73. What is a large explosion on the Sun’s surface?
74. What is an ejection of material from the solar corona?
75. What is a stream of charged particles ejected from the upper atmosphere of the Sun?
Stars and Black Holes
76. In the stellar magnitude system invented by Hipparchus, what does a smaller magnitude indicates a about a
star?
77. In that same stellar magnitude system, what does a larger magnitude indicates a about a star?
78. What can be determined about a blue star relative to other stars?
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79. How does the lifespan of a large star compare to other stars?
80. What is a way to describe how bright a star appears when viewed from Earth?
81. What is a measure of the total power radiated by a star?
82. What element is the key component in stars?
83. What is formed when a star ejects its outer layers to become a white dwarf?
84. What element is the last that can be made in a star before it goes supernova?
85. What is the name for the bottom of the black hole?
86. What is the name for the absolute dark sphere of the black hole?
87. What is the name for the four-dimensional fabric of the universe?
The Milky Way and Galaxies
88. What is the nearest large galaxy to ours?
89. What is the name given to “quasi-stellar objects;” galaxies that send out tremendous amounts of light?
90. What is our galactic neighborhood called?
91. How old do we think the universe is?
Space Exploration
92. What are the two rovers currently on Mars?
93. What was significant about the Viking missions?
94. What is the name of the unmanned missions that explored all of the gas giants?
95. What is the name of the NASA mission to Pluto?
96. What is the name of the NASA mission to asteroid Ceres?
97. What is the name of the NASA mission that collected particles of comet dust and returned them to Earth?
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