QB/AstroMars

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• _Name_* QB/AstroMars
• _Permalink_* Special:Permalink/1327222
• _wiki_* https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/
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• _Attribution_* http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Astronomy_college_course/Mars/questions&oldid=1327222
• _See_* User:Guy vandegrift

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1

Giovanni Schiaparelli 1877

Lowell circa 1914.

These drawings by Schiaparelli and Lowell were ultimately shown to be:

	slip faults
	subduction zones
	rilles
	optical illusions
	rift valleys

2 Antipodal to the Tharsis bulge is

	What Wikipedia contends IS an impact basin
	What Wikipedia contends MIGHT BE an impact basin
	What Wikipedia contends IS an active volcano
	What Wikipedia contends MIGHT BE an active volcano
	the northern lowlands

3

Martian lobate feature

The lobate feature shown in the figure is evidence of

	dust storms
	plate tectonics
	water flow
	lava flow
	wind erosion

4 The Martian dichotomy separates

	Valles Marineris from Olympus Mons
	the rift valley from the volcanoes
	the highlands from the lowlands
	the Tharsus buldge from Hellas basin
	the crust from the mantle

5 According to Wikipedia, ______ was formed due to swelling of the Tharsis bulge which caused the crust to collapse

	Valles Marineris
	Elysium
	the southern lowlands
	Hellas basin
	the northern lowlands

6

gray hematite

What is this hematite?

	evidence that Mars once had oceans
	irrefutable evidence that Mars once had life
	controversial evidence that Mars once had life
	evidence that Mars once had active volcanoes
	evidence that Mars now has active volcanoes

7 The polar ice caps on Mars are ___

	caused by geysers
	actually clouds above the surface of Mars
	a nearly equal mix of water and carbon dioxide
	mostly water
	mostly carbon dioxide

8 Liquid water cannot exist on Mars due to ___

	high pressure
	low pressure
	high temperature
	low temperature
	the solar wind

9

magnified Martian meteorite

What is at the center of this magnified image of a Martian meteorite? fragment?

	evidence that Mars once had oceans
	irrefutable evidence that Mars once had life
	controversial evidence that Mars once had life
	evidence that Mars once had active volcanoes
	evidence that Mars now has active volcanoes

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