Astronomy CH 2

The north celestial pole is 35° above your north horizon. This tells that you are at... (a) Latitude 35° N (b) Longitude 35° E (c) Latitude 35°S

(a) Latitude 35° N

In winter, Earths axis points toward the star Polaris. In spring, the axis points towards? (a) Polaris (b) Vega (c) the Sun

(a) Polaris

Is there is going to be a total lunar eclipse tonight, then you know that... (a) The moons phase is full (b) The moons phase is new (c) The moons phase is unusually close to the Earth

(a) The moons phase is full

Beijing and Philadelphia have about the same latitude but different longitudes. Therefore, tonight's night sky in these two places: (a) look about the same (b) have completely different sets of constellations (c) have partially different sets of constellations

(a) look about the same

When it is summer in Australia, the season in the United States is? (a) winter (b) summer (c) spring

(a) winter

When we Saturn going through a period of apparent retrograde motion, it means... (a) Saturn is temporarily moving backwards in its orbit of the sun (b) Earth is passing Saturn in its orbit, with both planets on the same side of the sun (c) Saturn and Earth must be on opposite sides of the sun.

(b) Earth is passing Saturn in its orbit, with both planets on the same side of the sun

If the Sun rises precisely due east: (a) you must be located at Earth's equator. (b) it must be the day of either the March or September equinox. (c) it must be the day of the June solstice.

(b) it must be the day of either the March or September equinox.

The fact that we always see the same face of the moon tells us that the moon? (a) does not rotate (b) rotates with the same period that it orbits earth (c) looks the same on both sides

(b) rotates with the same period that it orbits earth

A week after full moon, the Moon's phase is: (a) first quarter (b) third quarter (c) new

(b) third quarter

Two stars that are in the same constellation: (a) must both be part of the same cluster of stars in space. (b) must both have been discovered at about the same time. (c) may actually be very far away from each other.

(c) may actually be very far away from each other.