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Earth Science Lecture Quiz-3-
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1. Which of the following celestial bodies is not considered a planet
a. Earth
b. Pluto
c. Jupiter
d. Mars
2. The geocentric model of the solar system was proposed by _________ and represents a
______________
a. Copernicus / sun-centered solar system
b. Copernicus / earth-centered solar system
c. Ptolemy / sun-centered solar system
d. Ptolemy / earth-centered solar system
3. Retrograde motion describes
a. the planetary motion that shows a planet
b. the appearance of backward motion of a planet in the sky
c. the appearance of forward motion of a planet in the sky
d. the appearance of a motionless planet
4. Stellar parallax shows an observer
a. The apparent displacement of background stars as the earth orbits the sun
b. that stars are stationary
c. our solar system location in the milky way
d. that most stars belong to the main sequence group of stars
5. Which of the following astronomers invented and used the telescope to view the moon for
the first time?
a. Copernicus
b. Tyco Bryae
c. Galileo
d. Ptolemy
6. One astronomical unit is equal to
a. the distance between the sun and moon
b. the distance between the moon and the earth
c. the distance between the sun and earth
d. the distance between the earth and mars
7. Which of the following planets below is not a terrestrial planet
a. Mars
b. Earth
c. Mercury
d. Saturn
8. Which of the following is NOT one of Keplers planetary laws of motion
a. all planets orbit in elliptical paths around the sun
b. the closer a planet to the sun, the faster it orbits around the sun
c. the farther the planet from the sun, the faster it orbits around the sun
d. distances to planets can be calculated in astronomical unit
9. The earths atmosphere is composed primarily of
a. Oxygen
b. Carbon Dioxide
c. Nitrogen
d. Ozone
10. Which atmospheric layers are arranged in order from the earths surface to outer space
a. troposphere – mesosphere- stratosphere – thermosphere
b. troposphere – stratosphere – thermosphere – mesosphere
c. troposphere – thermosphere – mesosphere – stratosphere
d. troposphere – stratosphere – mesosphere – thermosphere
11. As a balloon rises in the atmosphere, which of the following takes place
a. atmospheric pressure increases as altitude increases
b. the inside pressure in the balloon decreases as atmospheric pressure decreases
c. the balloon begins to expand because the outside atmospheric pressure becomes
less than the inside pressure of the balloon
d. the balloon will stay the same size, because atmospheric pressure and balloon
pressure are in equilibrium
12. Adiabatic processes describe:
a. the influence of air pressure on a lifting parcel of air
b. lifting air parcels will compress and therefore cool, while subsiding air parcels
expand and therefore heat
c. air parcels that reach dew point and condense at the LCL
d. the cooling and heating of air parcels under rising and subsiding conditions.
13. A land breeze generally occurs _________
a. at night, when the land cools below the surface temperature of the sea
b. when strong winds blow in from the sea over the land
c. only during certain restricted seasons
d. during the day, when the land heats above the surface temperature of the sea
14. Cloudy and rainy weather is often associated with the inward and upward convergence of
air within _________
a. anticyclones
b. warm fronts
c. cold fronts
d. cyclones
15. ________ precipitation is a result of air being lifted over a highland area.
a. convective b. frontal
c. adiabatic
d. orographic
16. The _________ of the air represents the actual quantity of water vapor held by the air
a. relative humidity b. specific humidity c. saturation level
d. LCL
17. Kepler’s first law of planetary motion states:
a. Planets, like the earth. orbit along the elliptical planes
b. all planets orbit the sun along the same path of parallelism
c. all planets orbit the sun in circular paths
d. all planets orbit the sun in elliptical paths
18. The planet Jupiter is ________ AU which is _________ miles from the sun.
a. 52.0/4839 million
b. .520/48.3 million
c. 5.2/4.83 billion
d. 5.2/483.6 million
19. The gravitational force is described as
a. larger objects are attracted to smaller objects
b. an acceleration force of 9.8 m/s
c. the pull ward force of the earth attracted to the moon
d. smaller objects are attracted to larger objects
20. Most of the atmospheric pressure is represented by
a. the weight of the upper atmosphere
b. the gravitational pull of the heterosphere
c. the troposphere
d. the thin lower troposphere and thicker upper thermosphere