Test Your Astronomical Awareness

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Test Your Astronomical Awareness

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No Pressure!

• Heres a series of astronomical questions, with
  no marks at stake just for fun!

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Summer Heat
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1. The Seasons

• The Earth's orbit is not quite a perfect
  circle. (That much is indeed true.)
• Consider this claim summer occurs and the
  hottest days of the year are in July because that
  is when the Earth is closest to the sun.
• A True
• or B False?

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Black Holes
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2. Black Holes

• If the sun were to become a black hole, the
  Earth and all the other planets in the Solar
  System would be sucked into it.
• A True
• or B False?

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Weightlessness

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3. Weightlessness

• An astronaut in the Space Shuttle feels
  weightless because he or she is beyond the
  Earth's gravity.
• A True
• or B False?

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Lunar Phases
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4. Lunar Phases

• The moon goes through its phases (new,
  crescent, full, etc) because of the different
  amount of the Earth's shadow which falls on it
  from time to time.
• A True
• or B False?

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Christopher Columbus
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5. The Flat Earth

• Until the time of Columbus, it was believed by
  almost all learned people that the world was
  flat.
• A True
• or B False?

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Harvest Moon
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6. The Full Moon

• The full moon is measurably larger when it is
  close to the horizon, smaller when it is
  overhead.
• A True
• or B False?

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From Down Under
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7. Upside-Down

• From Australia, the moon appears to be
  upside-down relative to the way we see it.
• A True
• or B False?