Exploring Worlds Within Worlds

Exploring Worlds Within Worlds

Assessment

Interactive Video

Physics

9th - 10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Nancy Jackson

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is hidden beneath the cloud tops of Neptune and Uranus?

A magnetic field

A liquid ocean

A rocky core

A gaseous atmosphere

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the nickname given to the hydrogen cloud discovered around GJ 436b?

The Giant

The Colossus

The Behemoth

The Leviathan

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why is GJ 436b's atmosphere evaporating?

Due to its rapid rotation

Because of extreme irradiation from its parent star

Because of its large size

Due to gravitational pull from nearby planets

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What makes 'Hot Super-Earths' different from Earth?

They are closer to their stars

They have thicker atmospheres

They are larger and hotter

They are smaller and colder

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What advantage does Hubble's ultraviolet vision provide in studying exoplanets?

It can detect visible light

It can see through clouds

It can observe ultraviolet light blocked by Earth's atmosphere

It can measure gravitational fields