EAPS EXAM 3
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 5. Question 7. Watch the Unit 7 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: True or False: On the surface of Venus, daytime and nighttime temperatures are the same.
True
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 2. Question 7. Watch the Unit 7 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Which statement best characterizes water on the surface of Mars?
a. Billions of years ago there were lakes and rivers on the surface of Mars, but none exist today.
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 4. Question 5. Watch the Unit 8 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: How was Pluto discovered?
a. By comparing photographs of the night sky at different times.
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 4. Question 2. Watch the Unit 9 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: What is unique about Pluto's moon Charon?
a. Charon is the only moon to have tidally locked its planet.
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 6. Question 10. Watch the Unit 7 Part 6 lecture video and answer the following question: What might the compression of methane in the icy mantles of Uranus and Neptune lead to?
a. Diamond snow
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 1. Question 1. Watch the Unit 7 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: What are the main components of a primary atmosphere?
a. Hydrogen and Helium
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 1. Question 3. Watch the Unit 8 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: What is unusual about asteroid Bennu compared to larger asteroids?
a. It has no regolith
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 3. Question 2. Watch the Unit 8 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: Why is Haley's comet the most famous of all comets?
a. It is the only comet visible to the naked eye that comes around once in a lifetime.
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 3. Question 9. Watch the Unit 7 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: What is the primary cause of Earth's seasons?
a. Its tilted orbit
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 3. Question 8. Watch the Unit 9 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: What's happening at the Tiger Stripes on Saturn's moon Enceladus?
a. Jets of ice particles are being shot into space.
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 5. Question 8. Watch the Unit 7 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: What happens to the temperature of Earth's atmosphere as we lose sea ice?
a. Nothing, sea ice only affects water temperatures
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 5. Question 6. Watch the Unit 9 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: What is the Roche limit?
a. The distance from a planet where tidal forces that work to deform a moon are equal to the moon's own gravitational forces that work to keep it spherical.
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 3. Question 1. Watch the Unit 8 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: Which pairing of comet types and the reach of the orbit is correct?
a. Ultra-short period comets orbit inside of Jupiter's orbit
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 2. Question 6. Watch the Unit 7 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Why is liquid water more stable on Earth compared to Mars?
b. Because Earth has a higher atmospheric pressure
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 2. Question 8. Watch the Unit 7 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Why is it important to know how long Mars had water on its surface?
b. Because the evolution of life takes time.
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 4. Question 4. Watch the Unit 7 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Jupiter's zonal clouds are a different color then its belt clouds because they are comprised of different ices (ammonia as opposed to ammonium hydrosulfide). Why is this?
b. Because the top of the zones are higher and colder
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 2. Question 7. Watch the Unit 8 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Why do comets readily come apart before impact?
b. Because they are a loose collection of rocks (a rubble pile).
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 5. Question 8. Watch the Unit 8 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: Why was the International Astronomical Union (IAU) motivated to declassify Pluto as a planet?
b. Because they did not want school children to have to memorize too many planet names.
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 5. Question 7. Watch the Unit 9 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: Why do shepherd moons like Saturn's Atlas and Pan have fissures and elongated equators?
b. Because tidal forces are trying to pull them apart.
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 2. Question 8. Watch the Unit 8 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Which is a characteristic of a comet gas tail?
b. It points away from the Sun.
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 3. Question 9. Watch the Unit 9 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following has Saturn's moon Mimas not been compared to?
b. Mickey Mouse
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 4. Question 6. Watch the Unit 8 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: What fills the Sputnik Planum impact basin?
b. Nitrogen ice
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 5. Question 9. Watch the Unit 8 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: What condition for a planet did the IAU come up with that Pluto did not meet?
b. Planets must clear their neighborhood
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 4. Question 2. Watch the Unit 7 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following atmospheric layers exists on Earth but not Venus or Mars?
b. Stratosphere
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 1. Question 3. Watch the Unit 7 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: In addition to the temperature of a planet's atmosphere, which of the following factors strongly influence the velocity of an atmospheric gas molecule?
b. The atomic weight of the gas molecule
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 4. Question 7. Watch the Unit 8 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Why does Pluto have normal faults on its surface?
c. Because the surface is expanding as its subsurface ocean cools
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 1. Question 3. Watch the Unit 9 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following observations support the idea that Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos formed from a giant impact?
c. Equatorial orbits
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 5. Question 9. Watch the Unit 9 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: How do we know there are rings around small asteroids like Chariklo and Chiron and the dwarf planets Haumea?
c. From the manner in which starlight dims as these bodies passes in front of them (called occultation).
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 2. Question 6. Watch the Unit 9 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Which is the only moon in the Solar System with a substantial magnetic field?
c. Ganymede
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 1. Question 1. Watch the Unit 8 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: What do most asteroids look like?
c. Irregularly shaped with smooth surfaces
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 4. Question 1. Watch the Unit 9 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: What is unique about Neptune's Moon Triton?
c. It is the only large moon in the Solar System to have been captured.
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 2. Question 9. Watch the Unit 8 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Which is a characteristic of a comet dust tail?
c. It points away from the Sun and rotates away from the direction the comet is traveling.
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 5. Question 10. Watch the Unit 9 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: What happens when Neptune's moon Triton migrates inside Neptune's Roche limit?
c. It will be pulled apart and form a ring
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 1. Question 5. Watch the Unit 8 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: Which is not a reason why the asteroid belt could never become a planet?
c. Mars' gravity keeps large bodies from accreting in that orbit.
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 4. Question 5. Watch the Unit 9 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Why is Phobos moving toward Mars?
c. Mars' slow rotation compared to Phobos' orbit causes the tidal bulge to lag behind the direction to Phobos.
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 4. Question 3. Watch the Unit 7 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: To live comfortably at the top of Venus' clouds, what would you have to bring with you?
c. Oxygen
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 1. Question 1. Watch the Unit 9 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: If our Moon resulted from a giant impact, how do you explain the fact that the Moon is currently 30 Earth diameters away and does not orbit around the Earth's equatorial plane?
c. Since its origin, the Moon has experienced tidal forces that changed its orbit.
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 3. Question 3. Watch the Unit 8 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: What does the fact the comets come at us from all directions tell us about the Oort cloud?
c. That the Oort cloud must be spherical in shape
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 4. Question 5. Watch the Unit 7 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Why are Saturn's bands colors muted (less bright) compared to Jupiter's?
c. The change in temperature in Saturn's atmosphere is more gradual
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 1. Question 4. Watch the Unit 7 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following is not a major difference between the atmospheres of Venus and Mars?
c. The composition
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 1. Question 2. Watch the Unit 7 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: In addition to the mass of a planet, which of the following factors influences the escape velocity from the surface of a planet?
c. The radius of the planet
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 1. Question 4. Watch the Unit 8 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: Where do the Trojan asteroids orbit?
c. Within Jupiter's orbit
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 5. Question 6. Watch the Unit 7 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following statements about greenhouse gases is true?
c. Without them our planet would be completely covered over by ice
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 1. Question 2. Watch the Unit 8 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: What is regolith?
d. A layer of dust and small particles that rain down on their surface after impacts.
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 6. Question 9. Watch the Unit 7 Part 6 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following is true about Jupiter's Great Red Spot?
d. All the above
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 5. Question 10. Watch the Unit 8 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: Going strictly by the IAU definition for a planet, which of the following are not planets?
d. All the above
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 1. Question 2. Watch the Unit 9 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following observations support the idea that our Moon formed from a giant impact?
d. All the above
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 2. Question 5. Watch the Unit 9 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: In what way is Jupiter and the Galilean moons system like the Sun and planets?
d. All the above
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 2. Question 7. Watch the Unit 9 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Which is an indication that a moon was captured?
d. All the above
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 4. Question 3. Watch the Unit 9 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Why do we suspect an impact origin for Haumea's two moons?
d. All the above
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 5. Question 8. Watch the Unit 9 Part 5 lecture video and answer the following question: Which planet has rings?
d. All the above
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 4. Question 1. Watch the Unit 7 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following characterizes the troposphere?
d. Almost all clouds and weather occur in it.
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 2. Question 6. Watch the Unit 8 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Why is do comets have an average density less than that of ice?
d. Because they have a significant amount of empty space in their interiors.
Quiz 18: Unit 9. Part 4. Question 4. Watch the Unit 9 Part 4 lecture video and answer the following question: Why is the Moon moving away from Earth?
d. Earth's fast rotation compared to the Moon's orbit causes the tidal bulge to move ahead of the direction to the Moon.
Quiz 16: Unit 8. Part 3. Question 4. Watch the Unit 8 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: Where do meteor showers arise from?
d. From when Earth passes through the remnants of a comet.
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 2. Question 10. Watch the Unit 8 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: What happened to the Philae lander when it reached the surface of comet 67P?
d. It bounced.
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 3. Question 10. Watch the Unit 9 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: What is unique about Saturn's moon Titan?
d. It is the only body besides Earth to have liquid on its surface.
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 3. Question 10. Watch the Unit 7 Part 3 lecture video and answer the following question: Which is a consequence of Uranus spinning on its side compared to the other planets?
d. Its summers and winters are a 21-year-long day and night, respectfully.
Quiz 13: Unit 7. Part 1. Question 5. Watch the Unit 7 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: How did Earth achieve its oxygen rich atmosphere?
d. The emergence of oxygen producing bacteria.
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 2. Question 4. Watch the Unit 9 Part 2 lecture video and answer the following question: Which of the following observations is the key factor differentiating a giant impact moon from a co-accretion moon?
d. The moon's mineralogy
