Astronomy Chapter 15 Review

What is Exoplanet short for?

• Extraterrestrial Planet

• Experimental Observable Planet

• Extra Out-There Planet

• Extrasolar Planet

What is the problem with seeing planets orbiting other stars?

• They are faint

• They are sitting right on top of their parent star

• They are really far away

• All of these answers are correct

What is one way exoplanets are indirectly detected?

• The Hubble Space Telescope

• Infrared Waves

• X-Rays

• The doppler shift

What are large, short-period exoplanets called?

• Big Hotties

• Hot Jupiters

• Hot Saturns

• Hot Exoplanets

What is it called when a planet crosses directly in front of it's star?

• a Hot Jupiter

• an eclipse

• a direct line

• a transit

What is an exoplanet?

• A planet in our solar system
• A dead planet
• A star that does not have enough mass
• A planet outside of our solar system

What part of the James Webb Telescope is used to block and process star light to uncover blocked planets?

• Photosynthesis

• Light Blockonator

• Coronagraph

• NASA Star Finder 2.0

What is a habitable zone?

• the range of distances from a star where a planet's temperature allows liquid water oceans

• the distance from the Earth to the Sun

• the range of distances where a planets temperature allows water vapor to exist

• the range of distances where planets have oxygenated atmospheres

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

What definition best fits the class of planets known as "Super-Earths"?

• a planet that looks exactly like Earth but bigger

• a planet that is bigger than Jupiter but has Earth-like qualities

• a planet that orbits a star that is much larger than the Sun

• planets that are between the size of Earth and Neptune

A successful scientific model of the origin of planetary systems must be able to account for all of the following solar system features, except for

• intelligent life

• the roughly circular planetary orbits

• the roughly coplanar planetary orbits

• the extremely distance orbits of the comets

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4