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UB Astronomy Post Test Review

Authored by Jim Schmidt

Science

11th Grade

NGSS covered

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UB Astronomy Post Test Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term describes the path an object takes as it travels around a body in space?

triangle
orbit
eclipse
transit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the formula developed to quantify the number of possible communicating civilizations within our universe?

Hawking’s equation
Probability formula
Drake’s equation
Higgs boson

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Urey-Miller experiment create using the elements present on the early Earth and electricity to simulate lightning?

microorganisms
biomolecules
water
plants

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the leading theory about the origin of Earth’s Moon?

capture
fission theory
coaccretion
giant impact theory

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which term describes the farthest an object will be from the Sun in its orbit?

astronomical unit
aphelion
LaGrange point
perihelion

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is caused by the fact that we cannot always see all of the lit side of the Moon in our nighttime sky?

lunar eclipse
solar eclipse
the apocalypse
moon phases

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What term is used to describe the oval shape of a comet's orbit?

rhombus
cone
circle
ellipse

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