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SECTA Geoscience 2018-19 Midterm Review
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1
Which scientist used the telescope to confirm the heliocentric theory?
Aristotle
Copernicus
Galileo
Ptolemy
2
What term means the appearance of the planets moving backwards in the sky?
retrograde planetary motion
ethereal
protoplanetary disk
epicycle
3
What is happening in the core of a star?
Degeneration
Quark annihilation
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fission
4
Why is a full moon so bright?
The moon's polar icecaps are visible
It is reflecting man-made light from earth
It generates more energy when it is full
More surface area is reflecting sunlight
5
What claim tester means believing in the credibility of your source?
Intuition
Authority
Logic
Evidence
6
What do we know about the atoms that make up dark matter?
We know quite a bit; it’s very similar to regular matter.
A little bit, but really not much at all.
its atoms are very different from the atoms of normal matter
Everything that there is to know
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Pick the threshold: variations in density of matter and temps above 10 million C
New chemical elements
Stars
Solar System and Earth
Life
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Which of the following is NOT a claim tester?
Authority
Intuition
Evidence
Legality
9
The materials for our Solar System came from what?
Moon
Supernova
Cluster
Dying low mass star
10
_________________ is the fundamental force of attraction between bodies of mass.
Gravy
Matter
Gravity
The atom
11
What is the region of the Earth where organisms can live comfortably?
geology
atmosphere
biology
biosphere
12
Which of the following did NOT emerge in the first seconds after the Big Bang?
Gravity
Strong nuclear force
Quarks
Iron
13
What natural philosopher came up with the idea of elliptical orbits?
Newton
Kepler
Ptolemy
Copernicus
14
When did the stars begin to light up?
200 million years ago
4.5 billion years ago
13.8 billion years ago
100-200 million years after the Big Bang
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Dimitri Mendeleev was mainly known for coming up with what?
nuclear fusion
the periodic table of the elements
The Big Bang Theory
star theory
16
Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?
Solar
Oil
Natural gas
Coal
17
What is accelerating the expansion of the Universe?
Blueshift
Fusion
Dark energy
Dark matter
18
What is an example of a greenhouse gas?
Hydrogen
Helium
Oxygen
Methane
19
Which of the following was NOT part of Hubble's evidence for an expanding Universe?
Cepheid variable stars
Sonar technology
LeMaitre's theory of the primordial atom
Red shift
20
What elements are created from the death of low mass stars?
Up to Uranium
Up to Iron
Up to Polonium
Up to Carbon
21
Heliocentric means
Earth-centered
Planetary-centered
Sun-centered
Retrograde-centered
22
What distance is the astronomical unit (AU) based on?
The diamater of the earth
The distance from the moon to the Earth
The diameter of our solar system
The distance from the Sun to the Earth
23
a specific set of conditions necessary to enable greater complexity
ingredients
Goldilocks Conditions
emergent properties
thresholds
24
What is the study of elements and the composition of matter?
Biology
Chemistry
Astronomy
Physics
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The new complexities that emerged immedately after the Big Bang include:
planets, time, energy, & gravity
time, space, energy, and matter
matter, space, gravity, & atoms
time, galaxies, gravity, & atoms
