Astronomy 1 Name _________________________ Exam 1 (chap 1-5) I. Multiple Choice. Select all correct answers. 1. Which of the planets known to the ancient astronomers can never be seen high overhead at night? a) Mercury b) Venus c) Mars d)Saturn e) Jupiter 2. On the first day of spring‚ the Sun sets a) north of west b) directly west c) south of west d) can’t answer‚ it depends where you are on Earth. 3. One-hundred arcminutes
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scream. Sensing that I was frightened‚ he gave me a translator to put on my ears that would allow me to understand his language. I hesitatingly agreed and learnt that he indeed had come from Mars. He wanted to take me to his friends and show me his planet. I politely refused‚ telling him that I had my Math’s exams the very next day and hence could not oblige. He extended his thin wiry like hand in friendship‚ but I was wary of him and chose to do namaste instead. Though he sounded friendly‚ I was scared
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is because the book contains outrageous descriptions of impossible events. Plot Summary: War of the Worlds is a tale about an alien invasion. The story begins on a normal day in England. There is an unusual bright flash‚ seemingly coming from the planet‚ Mars. The people soon discover that this was the launching of an artificial cylinder‚ containing monstrous “martians”. A second cylinder follows‚ then a third‚ fourth‚ fifth‚ and so on. They attack with massive heat rays‚ which destroy almost anything
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The Ptolemaic-Aristotelian view was very idealized and simple compared to the knowledge we have today. They taught that the planets were perfectly spherical‚ traveling in circular orbits‚ at a constant speed. The geocentric model of our galaxy was also taught‚ meaning the earth would be at the center. Bit by bit‚ philosophers‚ especially in the eighteenth century‚ began to find discrepancies in the ancient model. Copernicus‚ believed that a heliocentric model of the galaxy better accounted for planetary
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Martian habitat would take months or years to complete..." Since it takes quite a long time for supplies to get to Mars‚ there could be a chance that the astronauts will starve or get dehydrated and die. Unless they are good at farming on another planet‚ it will be difficult for them to get food
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The little prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery 2 Chapter 1 Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book‚ called True Stories from Nature‚ about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole‚ without chewing it. After that they are not able to move‚ and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.” I pondered
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whether they come from Mexico‚China‚ England‚ or one of the many other countries on this planet we call home. Those are not the kind of aliens I want to make you believe in though‚ not the aliens from different countries‚ but the one’s from a different world. I strongly believe that the exterestrail life that we havemade movies‚ books‚ and jokes about for years truely does exist and I believe they have visited our planet Earth. - I had watched something on the History Channel once about the Ancient
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“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a story about a girl named Margot that lives in the planet Venus where it rains every seven years. She has lived on Earth she is a shy girl and she has seen the sun before. Margot wanted to see the sun again also her classmates‚ she also wants to tell her classmates about the sun but they are jealous of her. So‚ the classmates locked her in the closet. Finally‚ the kids saw the sun for only two hours‚ realized they were bullies‚ and opened the closet to get
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You must have heard of bigfoot‚ the notchless monster‚ and especially aliens! The question whether or not there is life on Mars sparks up many arguments. So far there isn’t much evidence to proof whether life exists on Mars. Mars doesn’t have enough resources to keep an organism alive‚ which explains why nothing is interacting with its atmosphere. “Everything learned from space exploration thus far indicates that the knowledge lying in wait for those who manage to observe the universe from outside
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light in the darkest of times. Could you even imagine a world without a moon? A world in which the black of night would only be interrupted by countless stars‚ the sun would be doomed to rise and shine on its own and the earth would be a lonely rocky planet only surrounded by celestial bodies to far away to see with human eyes. In order to research the effects the moon has on different variables‚
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