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PHSC 121 B06 LUO EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS How can you determine the relative ages of the Moon's maria and highlands? - Answer-Maria are younger than highlands, because fewer craters are observed on mare surfaces. Why is it not surprising that there is no evidence of plate tectonics on Mercury's surface? - Answer-The crust of Mercury is thick and heat flowing outward is unable to drive plate tectonics. What evidence can you give that Mercury had volcanism? - Answer-Lava flows within...

PHSC 121 HW 2 Practice Study Guide Exam 2024. Tonight you see the Moon at midnight at its highest point in your sky. What is the phase of the Moon? - CORRECT ANSWER Full moon You are located in Knoxville, TN, United States. Your friend is located in Lima, Peru. You see a waning gibbous moon in your clear night sky. What phase, if any, will your friend see if the night sky in Lima is also clear? - CORRECT ANSWER waning gibbous Which has the larger angular diameter in the sky—the Sun ...

PHSC 121 Astronomy Exam 1 Definitions Correctly Answered 2024. Scientific method - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Observation 2. Hypothesis - an educated guess from observation to explain the phenomenon 3. Test the Hypothesis - many times! 4. Theory - developed from tested hypothesis 5. Natural Law - a theory tested over much time, many situations Constellation - CORRECT ANSWER pattern formed by the brighter stars in the sky (88 of them) Star - CORRECT ANSWER GREAT BIG BALL O GAS Planet - C...

Astronomy Chap 5 (Liberty University) (PHSC 121) Review Practice Test 2024. What is the orbital speed at Earth's surface? Ignore atmospheric friction. (Note: Earth's average radius is , Earth's mass is , 6370 km, Earth's mass is 5.97x 10(24) kg, G= 6.67 x 10(-11) m(3)/ kg x s(2) - CORRECT ANSWER 7900 m/s When you ride a fast elevator upward, you feel slightly heavier as the trip begins and slightly lighter as the trip ends. How is this phenomenon related to the equivalence principle?...

PHSC 121-B06 LUO Final Exam Prediction Questions With Correct Answers 2024. How can you determine the relative ages of the Moon's maria and highlands? - CORRECT ANSWER Maria are younger than highlands, because fewer craters are observed on mare surfaces. Why is it not surprising that there is no evidence of plate tectonics on Mercury's surface? - CORRECT ANSWER The crust of Mercury is thick and heat flowing outward is unable to drive plate tectonics. What evidence can you give that ...

Why are most of the constellations that were invented in modern times composed of faint stars or located in the southern sky? Faint stars or stars in the southern sky were not visible to early astronomers observing from northern latitudes How does the Greek letter designation of a star give you clues both to its location and its apparent brightness? The brightest star in a constellation is usually designated as Alpha, the second brightest as Beta, and so on. The star's approximate lo...

PHSC-121 Astronomy Quiz 1 With Complete Solution 2024. Why is there astronomy? - CORRECT ANSWER People look for patterns in order to understand the world. scientific notation - CORRECT ANSWER a method of expressing a quantity as a number multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power What is the universe? - CORRECT ANSWER All that is Multiverse - CORRECT ANSWER The set of parallel universes that may exist, with our observable universe as only one part. Lagrange points - CORRECT ANSWE...

PHSC 211 Midterm Review (Answers for Quizzes 1-7) Graded A+ 2024. All the following properties of minerals are used for identification except ____________. - CORRECT ANSWER Melting Point Quartz can scratch all of the following except ____________. - CORRECT ANSWER Topaz A naturally occurring inorganic substance with a definite chemical composition is a ____________. - CORRECT ANSWER Mineral Having 3 planes of cleavage is an identifying property of which mineral(s)? - CORRECT ANSWER...

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Astro Midterm Prep Exam Questions & Answers 2024. According to Aristotle, if earth and water were displaced then they would return naturally to their proper place. Today, what do we call this Aristotelian natural motion? - CORRECT ANSWER Today, natural motion of Aristotle's time is known as the motion produced by the force of gravity Today, what do we call the Aristotelian violent motion? - CORRECT ANSWER Today, the violent motion of Aristotle's time is known as the motion produced whe...