Quiz-Ch-1_ Intro to Astronomy w_lab
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Quiz-Ch-1: Intro to Astronomy w/lab (17937-202410)
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Quiz-Ch-1
Due Jan 29 at 11:59pm
Points 10
Questions 10
Available Jan 22 at 12am - Jan 29 at 11:59pm
Time Limit None
This quiz was locked Jan 29 at 11:59pm.
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Question 1
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It was made by our Sun.
It was produced in the Big Bang.
It was created by chemical reactions in interstellar space.
It was made by nuclear fission of uranium and other radioactive materials.
Correct!
It was produced by nuclear fusion in stars.
Question 2
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It will take the Voyager spacecraft about 20,000 years to travel just 1 light-year.
It's about 4 light-years from here to Alpha Centauri.
The Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter.
A light-year is about 10 trillion kilometers.
Correct!
It will take me light-years to complete this homework assignment.
Earth is made mostly of metals and rocks. Where did this material come from?
Which of the following statements does not
use the term light
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year
in an appropriate way?
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Question 3
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Correct!
300,000 kilometers from the Earth
twice the distance from the Earth to the Sun
1 light year from the Earth
1 astronomical unit from the Earth
3,000 kilometers from the Earth
Question 4
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Correct!
1.08 billion km
100 million km
300,000 km
18 million km
9.46 trillion km
Question 5
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oxygen and carbon
hydrogen and oxygen
Correct!
hydrogen and helium
nearly equal portions of all the elements
carbon and nitrogen
Question 6
1 / 1 pts
Light takes approximately one second to travel from the Earth to the Moon. This means that the moon is
approximately
One light
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hour
is the distance that light travels in an hour. How far is this, in kilometers? (Recall that the
speed of light is 300,000 km/s.)
What is the Sun mainly made of?
Which of the following correctly describes the concept of galactic recycling
?
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