Astronomy Exam Questions With Complete Solutions.
The way scientists know that a hypothesis in astronomy is a reasonable
description of nature is to
do experiments and observations about the predictions of the hypothesis.
Which of the following is the Earth NOT located in?
You can't fool me, we are located in all of these
A star is 230 light years away. The light we see tonight from that star left it
______.
230 year ago
The Astronomical Unit (AU) as defined by astronomers is
the average distance between the Earth and the Sun
Light travels 3 x 105meters every second. That number in words is
300,000 meters
For scientists, an element (like gold) is defined by
the number of protons
A large body in space that consistently makes its own light (instead of merely
reflecting another body's light) is called
a star
You are on a camping trip, far away from city lights. You look up into the dark
night sky, and see lots of stars, some brighter, some dimmer. All the stars you
see with your unaided eye are
in the Milky Way Galaxy
By the term universe, astronomers mean
everything that we can observe
The location of the Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy is _____.
a little less than 30,000 LY from the center
All molecules (like molecules of water or carbon dioxide) are made up of
very small pieces of dust, from the material that lies between the stars
The way scientists know that a hypothesis in astronomy is a reasonable
description of nature is to
do experiments and observations about the predictions of the hypothesis.
Which of the following is the Earth NOT located in?
You can't fool me, we are located in all of these
A star is 230 light years away. The light we see tonight from that star left it
______.
230 year ago
The Astronomical Unit (AU) as defined by astronomers is
the average distance between the Earth and the Sun
Light travels 3 x 105meters every second. That number in words is
300,000 meters
For scientists, an element (like gold) is defined by
the number of protons
A large body in space that consistently makes its own light (instead of merely
reflecting another body's light) is called
a star
You are on a camping trip, far away from city lights. You look up into the dark
night sky, and see lots of stars, some brighter, some dimmer. All the stars you
see with your unaided eye are
in the Milky Way Galaxy
By the term universe, astronomers mean
everything that we can observe
The location of the Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy is _____.
a little less than 30,000 LY from the center
All molecules (like molecules of water or carbon dioxide) are made up of
very small pieces of dust, from the material that lies between the stars
