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EAPS 60 EXAM 3 Comprehensive
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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? - โ โ d. All the
above
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? - โ โ c. From the manner in which starlight dims as these bodies passes in front of them (called occultation).
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? - โ โ c. It will be
pulled apart and form a ring
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? - โ โ c. Equatorial orbits
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? - โ โ d. The moon's mineralogy
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? - โ โ d. All the above
Quiz 17: Unit 9. Part 2. Question 6. Watch the Unit 9 Part 2 lecture video and answer the
winters are a 21-year-long day and night, respectfully.
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? - โ โ d.
Almost all clouds and weather occur in it.
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? - โ โ c. Mars' gravity keeps large bodies from
accreting in that orbit.
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? - โ โ d.
Because they have a significant amount of empty space in their interiors.
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? - โ โ b. Because they
are a loose collection of rocks (a rubble pile).
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? - โ โ b. It points away from
the Sun.
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? - โ โ c. It points away from the Sun and rotates away from the direction the comet is traveling.
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? - โ โ c. The change in
temperature in Saturn's atmosphere is more gradual
Quiz 14: Unit 7. Part 5. Question 6. Watch the Unit 7 Part 5 lecture video and answer the
following question: What might the compression of methane in the icy mantles of Uranus and Neptune lead to? - โ โ a. Diamond snow
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? - โ โ c. Irregularly shaped with smooth
surfaces
Quiz 15: Unit 8. Part 1. Question 2. Watch the Unit 8 Part 1 lecture video and answer the following question: What is regolith? - โ โ d. A layer of dust and small particles that rain down on their surface after impacts.
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? - โ โ b. Stratosphere
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? - โ โ c. Oxygen
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? - โ โ b. Because the top of the zones
are higher and colder
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? - โ โ a. It has no regolith
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? - โ โ c. Within Jupiter's orbit
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
following question: Where do meteor showers arise from? - โ โ d. From when Earth passes through the remnants of a comet.
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? - โ โ a. By comparing photographs of the
night sky at different times.
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? - โ โ b. Nitrogen ice
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? - โ โ c. Because the
surface is expanding as its subsurface ocean cools
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? - โ โ b.
Because they did not want school children to have to memorize too many planet names.
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? - โ โ b. Planets must clear their neighborhood
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? - โ โ d. All the above
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? - โ โ c. Since its origin, the Moon has
experienced tidal forces that changed its orbit.
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? - โ โ a. Charon is the only
moon to have tidally locked its planet.
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? - โ โ
d. All the above
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? - โ โ 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 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? - โ โ c. Mars' slow rotation
compared to Phobos' orbit causes the tidal bulge to lag behind the direction to Phobos.
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? - โ
โ 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 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? - โ โ b. Because tidal forces are trying to pull them apart.
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? - โ
โ d. All the above
