UB Astronomy Post Test Review

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

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

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

• microorganisms
• biomolecules
• water
• plants

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

• capture
• fission theory
• coaccretion
• giant impact theory

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

• astronomical unit
• aphelion
• LaGrange point
• perihelion

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

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

• rhombus
• cone
• circle
• ellipse

Our sun will go through what main stages over the course of its life cycle?

• supernova, main sequence, red giant, black hole
• main sequence, red giant, black hole, supernova
• protostar, main sequence, red giant, white dwarf
• protostar, black hole, white giant, red dwarf

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Which planets are gaseous and have many moons?

• Pluto and Eros
• Jovian
• Titan, Io, and Enceladus
• Terrestrial

When a large stellar core contracts rapidly, the end result can be a massive explosion also known as what term?

• pulsar
• nebula
• starburst
• supernova