ES Unit 1: Intro and Beyond Earth

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, how much would a woodchuck chuck?

• Over 9000

• a chuck-ton

• chuck norris

• what the chuck!?

The arrangement of waves that includes gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, visible light, infrared radiation, microwaves, and radio waves according to wavelength and frequency is called the ____________.

• electromagnetic spectrum

• electromagnetic radiation

Telescopes are placed _____________ in order to most effectively collect infrared and ultraviolet radiation, Xrays, and gamma rays.

• on top of buildings

• on a mountaintop

• above the atmosphere

• on planes

The telescope that uses lenses to bring visible light to a focus is a ____________.

• reflecting

• refracting

The space exploration program that landed astronauts on the Moon was _____________.

• Mercury

• Discovery

• Apollo

• Space X

The Moon's surface is very different from the surface of Earth because the Moon has no __________.

• hills

• erosion

• valleys

• craters

The theory that suggests the Moon formed as a result of a collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object is called the ______________ theory.

• plate tectonics

• paleomagnetism

• impact

• bump

One reason different seasons occur on Earth is because Earth's _________________ is tilted 23.5° relative to the ecliptic.

• axis

• orbit

• prime meridian

• equator

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When the Moon waxes during its lunar cycle, the amount of its sunlight portion that we see appears to _____________ in size.

• decrease

• increase

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A lunar eclipse can only occur during the phase of the ____________.

• new moon

• full moon

• waxing moon

• quarter moon

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