PHYS 1404 Week 3 Quiz

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•             Question 1

               

                The planets Mercury and Mars have high populations of visible impact craters while the Earth and Venus do not. This is largely due to:                                     

               

                                               

•             Question 2

               

                True or False: Shooting stars are stars that are streaking across our view of the sky.                                        

               

                                               

•             Question 3

 

               

                A solar system such as ours formed from a large, spherical cloud of gas and dust  known as:                                        

               

                                               

•             Question 4

               

                The age of the Earth is approximate:                                      

               

                                               

•             Question 5

               

                The atmosphere of the Earth is mainly composed of:                                     

               

                                               

•             Question 6

               

                What is the light collecting area of a 3m diameter telescope?                                     

               

                                               

•             Question 7

               

                The terrestrial planet with the highest surface temperature is:                                  

               

                                               

•             Question 8

               

                The process by which gravity helps separate a planet’s interior into layers of different compositions and densities is called:                                  

               

                                               

•             Question 9

               

                True or False: Human activity is solely responsible for the greenhouse effect on Earth:                                  

               

                                               

•             Question 10

               

                The most ideal location to put a telescope that collects light from the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum is:                                           

               

                                               

•             Question 11

               

                Flattened and spinning clouds of gas and dust observed surrounding young stars and believed to be the early formation of planetary systems are called:                                          

               

                                               

•             Question 12

               

                Ground telescopes view the light coming from celestial objects through the turbulent atmosphere of the Earth. The distortion effect this turbulence causes to the light passing through it is called: