Unit 2 (Astronomy) Vocabulary Quiz
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- Q1What is a group of planets that circle one or more stars called?Milky WayBarycenterGalaxySolar System10s
- Q2What is a galaxy?the center of mass between two or more bodies that orbit each othera group of planets that circle one or more starsa cloud of gas and dusta collection of stars, dust, and planets held together by gravity10s
- Q3What is the Milky Way?a cloud of gas and dusta small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old low mass starthe galaxy that contains the Sun and all of the stars visible from Eartha group of planets that circle one or more stars10s
- Q4What is the spinning of Earth on its axis called?RotationRadiationRevolutionRed Giant10s
- Q5What is the movement of Earth around the Sun called?RevolutionRed GiantRadiationRotation10s
- Q6Which is true about a solstice?the Sun crosses the equatorthe Sun is closest to the equatorthe Sun is either farthest north or south of the equatorday and night are equally long10s
- Q7What is the time of the year when day and night are equally long called?Solar EclipseLunar EclipseSolsticeEquinox10s
- Q8What is the center of mass between two or more bodies that orbit each other called?RotationElectromagnetic WaveRevolutionBarycenter10s
- Q9Which is true about a lunar eclipse?the Earth is directly between the Sun and the moonthe sunlight to Earth is blockedit occurs at a new moonthe moon is directly between the Sun and Earth10s
- Q10Which occurs when the moon is directly between the Sun and Earth?Lunar EclipseNuclear FusionNuclear FissionSolar Eclipse10s
- Q11What is the transfer of energy from the Sun to the Earth as electromagnetic waves called?RadiationRevolutionNuclear FissionRotation10s
- Q12What is an electromagnetic wave?the process of atoms combiningthe transfer of energy from the Sun to the Earththe process of atoms splitting aparta wave produced from an energy transfer of electrical charges10s
- Q13Which process combines atoms to generate energy?RotationNuclear FissionNuclear FusionRadiation10s
- Q14Which process splits atoms apart?RadiationNuclear FissionRevolutionNuclear Fusion10s
- Q15What is a nebula?a group of planetsa collection of stars and planetsa cloud of gas and dusta small, hot, dim star10s