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Astronomy midterm Test 1 Study Guide-v1s1

1. When did astronomy split between theoretical and observational branches?

___ a) In the last decade

___ b) In the 20th century

___ c) In the 18th century

___ d) After Galileo

___ e) In the 19th century

2. What does the Wikipedia 'Astronomy' call astrology?

___ a) the belief that all people should learn astronomy

___ b) the belief system which claims that human affairs are correlated with the positions of celestial objects.

___ c) the study of planetary atmospheres

___ d) the study of planetary cores

___ e) the study of comets and asteroids

3. Cosmology is the study of

___ a) the oceans

___ b) the formation of the solar system

___ c) the universe as a whole

___ d) the birth and death of stars

___ e) planetary atmospheres

4. What does the Wikipedia 'Astronomy' article say about astronomy and astrophysics

___ a) They are often considered to be opposites

___ b) They must be in agreement or the result cannot be trusted

___ c) They are often in conflict

___ d) They often yield different results

___ e) They are often considered to be synonymous

5. The goecentric theory put the Sun

___ a) in orbit around Earth

___ b) at the center of the solar system

___ c) none of the above or below are true

___ d) at the center of the universe

___ e) orbiting around the Moon

6. In the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus of Samos estimated the size of

___ a) the Moon and Sun

___ b) Earth and the Moon

___ c) the Sun

___ d) Earth and the Sun

___ e) the Moon

7. In the 19th century Fraunhoffer and Kirchoff studied light from the Sun and found

___ a) a wobble that led to the discovery of new planets

___ b) a golden ring

___ c) Mercury's shadow

___ d) sunspots and the sunspot cycle

___ e) spectral lines and concluded that they were caused by the elements

8. The ancient Greeks discovered (named) most of the constellations

___ a) in the eastern hemisphere

___ b) in the southern hemisphere

___ c) in both all hemispheres

___ d) in the northern hemisphere

___ e) in the western hemisphere

9. When did astronmers establish that the Milky way is only one of many billions of galaxies in the universe?

___ a) 16th century

___ b) 14th century

___ c) 20th century

___ d) 18th century

10. According to the Wikipedia Astronomy article, the first known efforts in the mathematical and scientific study of Astronomy began

___ a) among the Babylonians

___ b) in south America

___ c) in central America

___ d) among the Chinese

___ e) in ancient Greece

11. How many years did it take before Europe made a device as sophisticated as Antikythera?

___ a) 1500 years

___ b) 300 years

___ c) 3000 years

___ d) 30 years

___ e) 15,000 years

12. The saro cycle was about repeating cycles of

___ a) seasons

___ b) planets

___ c) eclipses

13.

Who drew these sketches?

___ a) Galileo

___ b) Aristotle

___ c) Ptolemy

___ d) Kepler

___ e) Copernicus

14. In what century was parallax first used to measure the distance to a Star (other than our Sun)?

___ a) 17th century

___ b) 19th century

___ c) 16th century

___ d) 20th century

___ e) 18th century

15. The largest galaxy in the local group is

___ a) M52

___ b) Andromeda

___ c) M-31

___ d) ant-galexy

___ e) Milky way

16. What two names are associated with the first new planet found (after those known by the ancients using the naked eye)

___ a) Uranus and George's Star

___ b) Pluto and Goofy

___ c) Mercury and Friendship

___ d) Neptune and the Alabama Streaker

___ e) Mars and the Candy Bar

17. The historical record shows that in 1066 AD a supernovae was discovered by astronomers in _____ and _____

___ a) Egypt and China

___ b) Greece and North America

___ c) Greece and Central America

___ d) Greece and China

___ e) China and South America

18.

What is this?

___ a) the magnetic field of Venus

___ b) a dying star

___ c) a supernovae remnant

___ d) the magnetic field of Saturn

___ e) colliding galaxies

19. Wihlem Conrad Rontgen, a pioneer in X-rays is famous for his photo of

___ a) a double star

___ b) Barnard's star

___ c) The Sun

___ d) a supernovae

___ e) his wife

20. Earth based infrared observatories tend to be located in

___ a) where the air is cold

___ b) near the north and south poles

___ c) underground

___ d) near the equator

___ e) where the air is dry

21. The shortest wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is associated with

___ a) blue light

___ b) gamma rays

___ c) infrared

___ d) ultra violet

___ e) X-rays

22.

What are the blue things in this figure?

___ a) one galaxy

___ b) none of these is correct

___ c) a globular cluster

___ d) a cluster of galaxy

___ e) an open cluster of stars

23. Most of the ______ that astronomers observe from Earth is seen in the form of synchrotron radiation, which is produced when electrons oscillate around magnetic fields.

___ a) energy

___ b) meteorites

___ c) photons

___ d) radio waves

___ e) meteors

24. Most gamma rays are

___ a) from hot stars

___ b) from the Sun

___ c) from cold stars

___ d) in bursts

___ e) the Andromeda galaxy

25. Studies in the infrared are useful for objects that are

___ a) cold

___ b) in other galaxies

___ c) inside the solar system

___ d) associated with supernovae

___ e) in our own galaxy

26. The best place to observe neutrinos is

___ a) near the north and south poles

___ b) near the equator

___ c) where the air is dry

___ d) underground

___ e) where the air is cold

27. An active galaxy is emitting a significant amount of its energy from _____

___ a) nuclear fission

___ b) nuclear fusion

___ c) magnetism

___ d) exploding stars

___ e) gravity

28. The Wikipedia article Sidereus Nuncius suggests that the inventor of the telescope was likely to be

___ a) none of these

___ b) Galileo

___ c) a Chinese scientist

___ d) A Greek scholar

___ e) a lensmaker

29. Galileo called his telescope

___ a) the liberator

___ b) an optical cannon

___ c) the magic eye

___ d) a mistake

___ e) a double magnifying glass

30. The "terminator" for Galileo was

___ a) his trial for heresy

___ b) the equator

___ c) sunrise or sunset

___ d) the division between east and west

___ e) the most distant star he could see

31. Galileo used the terminator to

___ a) observe the wobble of the Moon's orbit

___ b) correlate color with whether the region had mountains

___ c) compensate for stellar parallax

___ d) deduce the color beneath the dust layer

___ e) none of these

32. Galileo used the terminator to

___ a) publicize his ideas

___ b) correlate dark and light regions with terrain

___ c) measure the height of mountains

___ d) compensate for stellar parallax

___ e) two of these

33. What statement is FALSE about Galileo and the Median Stars

___ a) Galileo named them after a famous and wealthy family

___ b) motion could be observed after observing a moon for just one hour

___ c) they are actually moons

___ d) they were lined up

___ e) they were described by Aristotle

34. The title of Galileo's book, Sidereus Nuncius, is often translated as ____, but it is probably more proper to translate it as _______

___ a) the motion of the earth - - the location of the earth

___ b) Starry messenger - - Starry message

___ c) the moons of Jupiter

___ d) the Moon close up - - the Moon through a telescope

___ e) the motion of the stars - - the location of the stars

35. The Wikipedia article, Sidereus Nuncius, points out that what the ancient Greek scientist thought was a cloudy star was really

___ a) the rings of Saturn

___ b) a supernovae remnant

___ c) a planetary nebula

___ d) many faint stars

___ e) a comet

36. Galileo's naming of the "Medicean Stars"

___ a) two of these are true

___ b) broke an agreement he made with the Pope to stop writing about astronomy

___ c) caused his house arrest

___ d) was controversial because stars were supposed to be named after Roman gods

___ e) might have earned him a promotion

37. When the German astronomy Marius provided evidence that he (Marius) had first seen the moons of Jupiter, Galileo

___ a) didn't care; he was a true scientist

___ b) pointed out that the telescope Marius was using could not have seen the Moons

___ c) used his political contacts to ensure that he (Galileo) would get credit

___ d) won the argument using his knowledge of calendars

___ e) appealed to the Pope

38. Prior to the publication of Sidereus Nuncius, the Church

___ a) had given Galileo a commission to look into the Copernican heliocentric system

___ b) none of these are true (according to the Wikipedia permalink to Sidereus Nuncius.)

___ c) was unaware of any controversy concerning the Copernican heliocentric system

___ d) had outlawed all discussion of the Copernican heliocentric system

___ e) accepted the Copernican heliocentric system as strictly mathematical and hypothetical

39. The Ptolemaic system was geocentric.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

40. The Ptolemaic system was heliocentric.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

41. Most ancient Roman and most medieval scholars thought the Earth was flat.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

42. Evidence for the Copernican system is that the Earth does not seem to move.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

43. The ancient Greeks believed in circular orbits, causing them to devise the epicycle and the deferent.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

44. Copernicus was a university-trained Catholic priest dedicated to astronomy.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

45. In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the geocentric theory.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

46. Copernicus shared his heliocentric theory with colleagues decades before he died.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

47. In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the heliocentric theory.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

48. An argument used to support the geocentric model held that heavenly bodies, while perhaps large, were able to move quickly.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

49. Tycho tended to favor religious arguments over scientific arguments when justifying his opinions about the geocentric/heliocentric controversy.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

50. Tycho was the first to propose an earth-orbiting sun had planets in orbit around the Sun.

___ a) TRUE

___ b) FALSE

51. At noon a 1st quarter moon would be

___ a) overhead

___ b) below the horizon

___ c) western horizon

___ d) eastern horizon

52. At 6pm a new moon would be

___ a) eastern horizon

___ b) below the horizon

___ c) overhead

___ d) western horizon

53. At 6am a full moon would be

___ a) overhead

___ b) western horizon

___ c) eastern horizon

___ d) below the horizon

54. At 6pm a 1st quarter moon would be

___ a) below the horizon

___ b) overhead

___ c) western horizon

___ d) eastern horizon

55. At midnight a third quarter moon would be

___ a) eastern horizon

___ b) overhead

___ c) below the horizon

___ d) western horizon

56. At noon a new moon would be

___ a) eastern horizon

___ b) below the horizon

___ c) overhead

___ d) western horizon

57. At 6pm a third quarter moon would be

___ a) eastern horizon

___ b) below the horizon

___ c) overhead

___ d) western horizon

58. At noon a third quarter moon would be

___ a) western horizon

___ b) overhead

___ c) eastern horizon

___ d) below the horizon

59. At 6am a 1st quarter moon would be

___ a) overhead

___ b) western horizon

___ c) eastern horizon

___ d) below the horizon

60. At 6am a new moon would be

___ a) overhead

___ b) below the horizon

___ c) western horizon

___ d) eastern horizon

Key to Astronomy midterm Test 1 Study Guide-v1s1

1. When did astronomy split between theoretical and observational branches?

- a) In the last decade

+ b) In the 20th century

- c) In the 18th century

- d) After Galileo

- e) In the 19th century

2. What does the Wikipedia 'Astronomy' call astrology?

- a) the belief that all people should learn astronomy

+ b) the belief system which claims that human affairs are correlated with the positions of celestial objects.

- c) the study of planetary atmospheres

- d) the study of planetary cores

- e) the study of comets and asteroids

3. Cosmology is the study of

- a) the oceans

- b) the formation of the solar system

+ c) the universe as a whole

- d) the birth and death of stars

- e) planetary atmospheres

4. What does the Wikipedia 'Astronomy' article say about astronomy and astrophysics

- a) They are often considered to be opposites

- b) They must be in agreement or the result cannot be trusted

- c) They are often in conflict

- d) They often yield different results

+ e) They are often considered to be synonymous

5. The goecentric theory put the Sun

+ a) in orbit around Earth

- b) at the center of the solar system

- c) none of the above or below are true

- d) at the center of the universe

- e) orbiting around the Moon

6. In the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus of Samos estimated the size of

+ a) the Moon and Sun

- b) Earth and the Moon

- c) the Sun

- d) Earth and the Sun

- e) the Moon

7. In the 19th century Fraunhoffer and Kirchoff studied light from the Sun and found

- a) a wobble that led to the discovery of new planets

- b) a golden ring

- c) Mercury's shadow

- d) sunspots and the sunspot cycle

+ e) spectral lines and concluded that they were caused by the elements

8. The ancient Greeks discovered (named) most of the constellations

- a) in the eastern hemisphere

- b) in the southern hemisphere

- c) in both all hemispheres

+ d) in the northern hemisphere

- e) in the western hemisphere

9. When did astronmers establish that the Milky way is only one of many billions of galaxies in the universe?

- a) 16th century

- b) 14th century

+ c) 20th century

- d) 18th century

10. According to the Wikipedia Astronomy article, the first known efforts in the mathematical and scientific study of Astronomy began

+ a) among the Babylonians

- b) in south America

- c) in central America

- d) among the Chinese

- e) in ancient Greece

11. How many years did it take before Europe made a device as sophisticated as Antikythera?

+ a) 1500 years

- b) 300 years

- c) 3000 years

- d) 30 years

- e) 15,000 years

12. The saro cycle was about repeating cycles of

- a) seasons

- b) planets

+ c) eclipses

13.

Who drew these sketches?

+ a) Galileo

- b) Aristotle

- c) Ptolemy

- d) Kepler

- e) Copernicus

14. In what century was parallax first used to measure the distance to a Star (other than our Sun)?

- a) 17th century

+ b) 19th century

- c) 16th century

- d) 20th century

- e) 18th century

15. The largest galaxy in the local group is

- a) M52

+ b) Andromeda

- c) M-31

- d) ant-galexy

- e) Milky way

16. What two names are associated with the first new planet found (after those known by the ancients using the naked eye)

+ a) Uranus and George's Star

- b) Pluto and Goofy

- c) Mercury and Friendship

- d) Neptune and the Alabama Streaker

- e) Mars and the Candy Bar

17. The historical record shows that in 1066 AD a supernovae was discovered by astronomers in _____ and _____

+ a) Egypt and China

- b) Greece and North America

- c) Greece and Central America

- d) Greece and China

- e) China and South America

18.

What is this?

- a) the magnetic field of Venus

+ b) a dying star

- c) a supernovae remnant

- d) the magnetic field of Saturn

- e) colliding galaxies

19. Wihlem Conrad Rontgen, a pioneer in X-rays is famous for his photo of

- a) a double star

- b) Barnard's star

- c) The Sun

- d) a supernovae

+ e) his wife

20. Earth based infrared observatories tend to be located in

- a) where the air is cold

- b) near the north and south poles

- c) underground

- d) near the equator

+ e) where the air is dry

21. The shortest wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is associated with

- a) blue light

+ b) gamma rays

- c) infrared

- d) ultra violet

- e) X-rays

22.

What are the blue things in this figure?

+ a) one galaxy

- b) none of these is correct

- c) a globular cluster

- d) a cluster of galaxy

- e) an open cluster of stars

23. Most of the ______ that astronomers observe from Earth is seen in the form of synchrotron radiation, which is produced when electrons oscillate around magnetic fields.

- a) energy

- b) meteorites

- c) photons

+ d) radio waves

- e) meteors

24. Most gamma rays are

- a) from hot stars

- b) from the Sun

- c) from cold stars

+ d) in bursts

- e) the Andromeda galaxy

25. Studies in the infrared are useful for objects that are

+ a) cold

- b) in other galaxies

- c) inside the solar system

- d) associated with supernovae

- e) in our own galaxy

26. The best place to observe neutrinos is

- a) near the north and south poles

- b) near the equator

- c) where the air is dry

+ d) underground

- e) where the air is cold

27. An active galaxy is emitting a significant amount of its energy from _____

- a) nuclear fission

- b) nuclear fusion

- c) magnetism

- d) exploding stars

+ e) gravity

28. The Wikipedia article Sidereus Nuncius suggests that the inventor of the telescope was likely to be

- a) none of these

- b) Galileo

- c) a Chinese scientist

- d) A Greek scholar

+ e) a lensmaker

29. Galileo called his telescope

- a) the liberator

+ b) an optical cannon

- c) the magic eye

- d) a mistake

- e) a double magnifying glass

30. The "terminator" for Galileo was

- a) his trial for heresy

- b) the equator

+ c) sunrise or sunset

- d) the division between east and west

- e) the most distant star he could see

31. Galileo used the terminator to

- a) observe the wobble of the Moon's orbit

+ b) correlate color with whether the region had mountains

- c) compensate for stellar parallax

- d) deduce the color beneath the dust layer

- e) none of these

32. Galileo used the terminator to

- a) publicize his ideas

- b) correlate dark and light regions with terrain

- c) measure the height of mountains

- d) compensate for stellar parallax

+ e) two of these

33. What statement is FALSE about Galileo and the Median Stars

- a) Galileo named them after a famous and wealthy family

- b) motion could be observed after observing a moon for just one hour

- c) they are actually moons

- d) they were lined up

+ e) they were described by Aristotle

34. The title of Galileo's book, Sidereus Nuncius, is often translated as ____, but it is probably more proper to translate it as _______

- a) the motion of the earth - - the location of the earth

+ b) Starry messenger - - Starry message

- c) the moons of Jupiter

- d) the Moon close up - - the Moon through a telescope

- e) the motion of the stars - - the location of the stars

35. The Wikipedia article, Sidereus Nuncius, points out that what the ancient Greek scientist thought was a cloudy star was really

- a) the rings of Saturn

- b) a supernovae remnant

- c) a planetary nebula

+ d) many faint stars

- e) a comet

36. Galileo's naming of the "Medicean Stars"

+ a) two of these are true

- b) broke an agreement he made with the Pope to stop writing about astronomy

- c) caused his house arrest

- d) was controversial because stars were supposed to be named after Roman gods

- e) might have earned him a promotion

37. When the German astronomy Marius provided evidence that he (Marius) had first seen the moons of Jupiter, Galileo

- a) didn't care; he was a true scientist

- b) pointed out that the telescope Marius was using could not have seen the Moons

- c) used his political contacts to ensure that he (Galileo) would get credit

+ d) won the argument using his knowledge of calendars

- e) appealed to the Pope

38. Prior to the publication of Sidereus Nuncius, the Church

- a) had given Galileo a commission to look into the Copernican heliocentric system

- b) none of these are true (according to the Wikipedia permalink to Sidereus Nuncius.)

- c) was unaware of any controversy concerning the Copernican heliocentric system

- d) had outlawed all discussion of the Copernican heliocentric system

+ e) accepted the Copernican heliocentric system as strictly mathematical and hypothetical

39. The Ptolemaic system was geocentric.

+ a) TRUE

- b) FALSE

40. The Ptolemaic system was heliocentric.

- a) TRUE

+ b) FALSE

41. Most ancient Roman and most medieval scholars thought the Earth was flat.

- a) TRUE

+ b) FALSE

42. Evidence for the Copernican system is that the Earth does not seem to move.

- a) TRUE

+ b) FALSE

43. The ancient Greeks believed in circular orbits, causing them to devise the epicycle and the deferent.

+ a) TRUE

- b) FALSE

44. Copernicus was a university-trained Catholic priest dedicated to astronomy.

+ a) TRUE

- b) FALSE

45. In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the geocentric theory.

- a) TRUE

+ b) FALSE

46. Copernicus shared his heliocentric theory with colleagues decades before he died.

+ a) TRUE

- b) FALSE

47. In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the heliocentric theory.

+ a) TRUE

- b) FALSE

48. An argument used to support the geocentric model held that heavenly bodies, while perhaps large, were able to move quickly.

+ a) TRUE

- b) FALSE

49. Tycho tended to favor religious arguments over scientific arguments when justifying his opinions about the geocentric/heliocentric controversy.

- a) TRUE

+ b) FALSE

50. Tycho was the first to propose an earth-orbiting sun had planets in orbit around the Sun.

- a) TRUE

+ b) FALSE

51. At noon a 1st quarter moon would be

- a) overhead

- b) below the horizon

- c) western horizon

+ d) eastern horizon

52. At 6pm a new moon would be

- a) eastern horizon

- b) below the horizon

- c) overhead

+ d) western horizon

53. At 6am a full moon would be

- a) overhead

+ b) western horizon

- c) eastern horizon

- d) below the horizon

54. At 6pm a 1st quarter moon would be

- a) below the horizon

+ b) overhead

- c) western horizon

- d) eastern horizon

55. At midnight a third quarter moon would be

+ a) eastern horizon

- b) overhead

- c) below the horizon

- d) western horizon

56. At noon a new moon would be

- a) eastern horizon

- b) below the horizon

+ c) overhead

- d) western horizon

57. At 6pm a third quarter moon would be

- a) eastern horizon

+ b) below the horizon

- c) overhead

- d) western horizon

58. At noon a third quarter moon would be

+ a) western horizon

- b) overhead

- c) eastern horizon

- d) below the horizon

59. At 6am a 1st quarter moon would be

- a) overhead

- b) western horizon

- c) eastern horizon

+ d) below the horizon

60. At 6am a new moon would be

- a) overhead

- b) below the horizon

- c) western horizon

+ d) eastern horizon

Attribution (for quiz questions) under CC-by-SA license

http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy_college_course/Astronomy_(wikipedia)/Quiz01&oldid=1387156

https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy_college_course/Astronomy_(wikipedia)/Quiz02&oldid=1387715

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Astronomy_college_course/Wikipedia_Sidereus_Nuncius/Quiz01

http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy_college_course/Ptolemy,_Copernicus_and_Tycho_systems/Quiz01&oldid=1388143

http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy_college_course/Lunar_Phases/Quiz(simple)&oldid=1388138

Study guide

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy&oldid=586057527

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sidereus_Nuncius&oldid=587554840

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_vandegrift/Astronomy_college_course/Ptolemy,_Copernicus_and_Tycho_systems

http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy_college_course/Lunar_Phases&oldid=1190185