Final Exam
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| Constellations | show 🗑
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| show | 88
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| show | Polaris
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| show | The rotation of the Earth.
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| What do you call stars and constellations that never set? | show 🗑
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| show | horizontally
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| How do that stars move at the equator? | show 🗑
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| How do stars move at mid-latitudes? | show 🗑
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| Will the sun appear to move with respect to the constellations? | show 🗑
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| show | The zodiac. Ecliptic.
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| Precession | show 🗑
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| Sidereal year | show 🗑
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| Tropical year | show 🗑
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| What will happen to the "summer triangle" in 13,000 years? | show 🗑
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| show | Pattern of stars seen in Earth's sky which is not an official constellation.
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| show | Second brightest star in Orion
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| Messier Catalog | show 🗑
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| show | Because big telescopes can only look at small portions of the sky.
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| show | Position.
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| What causes night and day? | show 🗑
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| Solar day | show 🗑
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| show | The revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
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| show | Path the Earth's motion around the Sun traces on the Celestial Sphere
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| T/F The sun is lower in the sky in the winter. | show 🗑
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| Equinoxes | show 🗑
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| show | Sun's farthest northernly or southernly position. (summer or winter)
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| show | Path that the sun follows in the sky. 23.5 degrees to the celestial equator
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| Northernmost point above the celestial equator | show 🗑
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| Southernmost point below the celestial equator | show 🗑
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| Points where paths cross celestial equator | show 🗑
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| Time from one vernal equinox to the next | show 🗑
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| Season | show 🗑
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| Moon's revolution around the earth causes: | show 🗑
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| show | moon takes about 29.5 days to go through whole cycle of phases
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| Phases are due to | show 🗑
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| Lunar Eclipse | show 🗑
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| show | sun disappears
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| Lunar eclipses occur when | show 🗑
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| Umbra | show 🗑
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| penumbra | show 🗑
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| show | all of moon in umbra
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| partial eclipse | show 🗑
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| penumbral eclipse | show 🗑
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| show | the Earth enters the shadow of the moon (moon blocks the sun"
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| Annular eclipse | show 🗑
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| Why arent eclipses more frequent? | show 🗑
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| # solar eclipses per year | show 🗑
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| show | maximum is 3
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| show | maximum is 7
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| show | 7 1/2 minutes
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| show | 1 hour 47 minutes
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| Spring tide | show 🗑
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| Neap tide | show 🗑
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| show | 2
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| Lunar phases during which tides are particularly strong | show 🗑
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| show | Asteroid belt
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| show | large chunks of rock and metal left over from the formation of the solar system
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| Meteroids | show 🗑
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| show | flash you see when a meteoroid hits the Earth's atmosphere and gets burned up.
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| Meteorites | show 🗑
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| Comets | show 🗑
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| 2 comet tails | show 🗑
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| show | Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud
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| Kuiper Belt | show 🗑
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| show | Spherical distribution of material even darther
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| The “Terrestrial Planets” include | show 🗑
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| show | AU
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| show | Venus
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| show | Craters
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| show | Cooler
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| show | 2 years 3 rotations
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| show | Greenhouse
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| show | Magnetic North
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| show | Magnetosphere
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| show | Van Allen
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| When these overflow, we see _______________. | show 🗑
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| show | Meteor
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| show | Olympus Mons
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| show | Photosphere
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| Chromosphere | show 🗑
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| Corona | show 🗑
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| show | Dark blotches ont he surface of the sun
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| Sunspots are linked by | show 🗑
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| show | the rotation of the sun drags magnetic field lines around with it
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| show | varies with time. 11 year cycle
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| show | Dark sunspots result
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| When does the Sun's northern magnetic pole become the southern magnetic pole? | show 🗑
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| Solar Flares | show 🗑
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| show | emits charged particles that can affect the Earth
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| How do stars shine? | show 🗑
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| Nuclear fusion | show 🗑
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| Hydrostatic Equilibrium | show 🗑
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| Stellar evolution | show 🗑
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| A stars brightness is effected by | show 🗑
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| show | Move 2x as far from a light and it gets 4x dimmer
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| show | Color of a star is indicative of its temperature. Red- cool Blue- Hot
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| Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram | show 🗑
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| Percent of stars on "main sequence" | show 🗑
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| Percent of stars are red giants | show 🗑
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| show | 1%
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| show | dwarfs
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| show | much bigger than the sun, coolest
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| Supergiants | show 🗑
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| show | Much smaller than the sun, very hot but not very bright, remnants of dead or dying stars
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| show | star blown into smithereens
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| nebula | show 🗑
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| show | type of neutron star emitting regular pulses of light
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| What happens when compressed gas from stars collides? | show 🗑
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| show | when two unequal size galaxies collide and merge
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| Quasars | show 🗑
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| Most big galaxies have supermassive _______ in their centers | show 🗑
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| During a merger, what happens when fuel is fed into a black hole? | show 🗑
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| show | black hole surrounded by an accretion disk
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| When did the universe begin? | show 🗑
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| show | study of the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe
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| Universe | show 🗑
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| show | Matter is uniformly spread throughout space
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| Isotrophy | show 🗑
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| show | any observer in any part of the universe sees the same general features
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| show | If the universe is homogeneous, isotropic, infinite, and unchanging, the entire sky should be as bright as the surface of the Sun
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| show | The universe is homogeneous and isotropic, it must not be infinite or unchanging
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| show | The universe is not unchanging, it is expanding
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| show | motion through space-time
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