Download ES Apr 4 and 5 Test Review and Answers

ES Apr 4 and 5 Test Review and Answers
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
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8:11 AM
TEST ON FRIDAY OVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM
QUESTIONS ABOUT Astronomy WE HAVE THOUGHT OF TODAY:
How big is the north star? How bright?
What color star is our sun? (This question is postponed until next
chapter when we study stars).
What are the brightest objects?
Layers of sun?
Earth-like planets
If the city lights weren't there…
What did ancient civilizations think of stars?
How long does it take star light traveling from space to earth?
Possibilities of terra-forming
Sun reputable video outer layers (atmosphere layers?) corona
chromosphere and photosphere: https://youtu.be/KFxJ_8ob6BM
Sun Inner layers core radiative and convection: https://youtu.be/BGkqGb-KDK4
Phases of the Moon video: https://youtu.be/AQ5vty8f9Xc
Sun Song: https://youtu.be/GZC7mocf1Q4
Class assignment #2 = Create a grid showing 28 boxes and draw a
picture of the moon for each of the 28 boxes to make a complete moon
phase cycle.
Class assignment #1 = Finish, grade, and correct your quiz from last
Friday. Questions and Answers are shown below:
NUMBER OF THE QUESTION YOU ARE ANSWERING!
Put answers here↓ or on
the back
1. What is the diameter of the Sun?
1. ~1 MILLION KM actually 1.4 million
2. How many moons does Saturn have? 2. MORE THAN 60 LESS THAN 70. RINGS
Do the rings count?
DON’T COUNT
3. What is the specific definition of a
3. NATURAL SATELLITE AROUND A PLANET
4. GANYMEDE A MOON OF JUPITER
moon?
4. What the largest moon in our solar
5. PLANE THAT IS EARTH’S ORBIT
6. DWARF PLANET
system?
5. What is the ecliptic?
7. EMPTY SPACE
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5. What is the ecliptic?
6. What is the classification of Pluto?
7. What does most of the solar system
consist of?
8. What is an astronomical unit?
9. What is a nebula?
10. What is nebular theory?
11. Explain the relationship between a
nebula and an ice skater.
12. What force causes a nebula to
contract?
13. How are the outer planets different
from the inner planets? Why are they
different?
14. Did the planets start forming before
or after the Sun ignited?
15. Why does a nebula spin faster as it
contracts?
16. When did our solar system start to
form?
17. What are sunspots?
18. What are the layers of the sun?
19. Which layer is of the sun is thinnest?
20. Which layer of the sun is hottest?
21. Which layer of the sun is between the
other two?
22. Was the sun more massive 1000 years
ago than it is today?
23. What happens to the amount of the
Sun's mass as it burns?
24. What is the age of the Sun?
25. What is the smallest planet in our
solar system?
26. Which planet in our solar system is
closest to Sun?
27. Which planet in our solar system is
furthest planet from Sun?
28. Which planet in our solar system is
the largest Planet?
29. What is the relative shape of the Solar
System?
30. Where are the rocky planets in
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7. EMPTY SPACE
8. DISTANCE FROM EARTH TO SUN
9. CLOUD OF GAS AND DUST
10. THEORY OF HOW THE SOLAR SYSTEM
FORMED
11. ICE SKATER BRINGS ARMS IN&SPINS
FASTER-NEBULA CONTRACTS&SPINS
FASTER
12. GRAVITY
13. GAS GIANTS OUTER AND ROCKY INNER
14. I DON’T KNOW
15. CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM
16. 4.5 OR 4.6 OR 5 BILLION YEARS AGO
17. COOLER DARKER PARTS OF SUN
18. PHOTOSPHERE CHROMOSPHERE
CORONA
19. PHOTOSPHERE
20. CORONA
21. CHROMOSPHERE ^PHOTOSPHERE v
CORONA
22. YES, BUT ONLY A TINY AMOUNT
23. IT DECREASES
24. 4.5 OR 4.6 OR 5 BILLION YEARS AGO
25. MERCURY
26. MERCURY
27. NEPTUNE
28. JUPITER
29. FLAT PLANE/PLATE
30. CLOSEST
31. MERCURY VENUS EARTH MARS
32. FARTHEST
33. JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE
34. ROCKY CORE. HAVEN’T SENT AN
EXPLORER DRONE THERE YET
35. SUN MOON EARTH
36. SUN EARTH MOON
37. THE MOON BLOCKING THE SUN IS SO
MUCH SMALLER SO IT ONLY AFFECTS A
TINY PART OF THE SURFACE OF THE
EARTH!
38. ANY OBJECT IN SPACE
39. STRAIGHT UP
30. Where are the rocky planets in
relationship to the Sun?
31. Name the rocky planets.
32. Where are the gas giants in
relationship to the Sun?
33. Name the gas giants.
34. What is hypothesized is at the center
of gas giants? Why don't we have
physical evidence of what is
there….yet?
35. What is the order of the Earth, Moon,
Sun in a solar eclipse?
36. What is the order of the Earth, Moon,
Sun in a lunar eclipse?
37. Why is a solar eclipse seen so much
less often by human beings?
38. What is a celestial object or celestial
body?
39. What does 90 degrees of altitude
mean when looking at the sky?
40. What is the speed of light?
41. Where is 0 degrees on the NESW
coordinate system?
42. Where is 90 degrees on the NESW
coordinate system?
43. Between which two directions would
you find 190 degrees on the NESW
coordinate system?
44. If you are standing in the bus parking
lot behind the science building, how
can you determine which way north
is?
45. What is the difference between a
solar and lunar eclipse?
46. What is an eclipse?
39. STRAIGHT UP
40. 300,000,000 m/s 300,000 km/s 186,000
mi/h
41. North
42. East
43. SOUTH AND WEST
44. LOOK AT THE DIRECTION OF THE SOLAR
PANETS THEY ARE PERFECTLY NORTH
SOUTH
45. SOLAR – MOON BLOCKS SUN
LUNAR
EARTH BLOCKS LIGHT FROM SUN
46. WHEN SOMETHING PASSES IN FRONT
OF BRIGHT OBJECT
Test is on Friday. We will do a review before we take the test. Today
we are finishing up anything I have missed that is on Friday's test.
How did Earth's moon form? https://youtu.be/vRf-hB8X7b0
Why doesn't the atmosphere keep Mars warm? https://youtu.be/5V49yL4pe2E
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Why doesn't the atmosphere keep Mars warm? https://youtu.be/5V49yL4pe2E
Atmosphere of Venus?
What two materials make up gas Giants? https://youtu.be/SeC22-94PMw
Why does the same side of the moon always face the earth?
https://youtu.be/O3Q2bSkLXDg
Friday's test will be 25 multiple choice questions. The questions below
are the review we will complete in class BEFORE the test!
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What is the ecliptic?
What is an astronomical unit?
What force causes the collapse of a nebula?
What is the difference between a solar and lunar eclipse?
What is the time period between the major phases of the moon?
How did earth’s moon form?
What is earth’s moon’s composition most like?
How does the effect of a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus
differ from the carbon dioxide atmosphere on Mars which is a very cold
planet?
What materials make up a gas giant?
How is the suns energy produced?
How is the solar system like an atom?
What is thought to be at the center of a gas giant planet?
At what times of day does the sun shine on the moon?
What portion of the moon’s surface is lit by the sun all the time?
What portion of the moon’s surface that we can see is lit by the sun
during the third quarter moon?
Why are rocky planets found closer to the sun than gas giants?
Why does one side of the moon always face earth?
What are the smallest and largest planets in our solar system?
Name the rocky planets in order of their distance from the sun, closest
first.
Name the gas giant planets in order of distance from the sun, closest
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20. Name the gas giant planets in order of distance from the sun, closest
first.
21. If it's the first quarter moon in New Mexico, what is the phase of the
moon in Australia?
22. What are the important characteristics of a sunspot?
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