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.Cosmology and the Infinitesimal

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38

#now are the questions

#1
M:2 2
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 What is the Greek word for "order of
 the universe"?
>
1. chaos.
2. cosmos.

#2
M:1 3
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 What is the 'Big Dipper' constellation
 called in France? (The other 2 names
 are what England and China called it.)
>

1. the Casserole.
2. the Great Bear.
3. the Plough.

#3
M:2 3
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 What is the longest day of the year?
>
1. July 10.
2. June 21.
3. August 3.


#4
M:4 4
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 How long does it take Pluto to orbit
 the sun just once? (one 'year' on
 Pluto)
>
1. about one earth year.
2. about 5 years.
3. about 7 years.
4. over 100 years.


#5
M:1 4
<
 In 1908 the 'Tungusta Event' which
 occurred in Siberia and astonishingly
 wiped out 2000 acres in a moments time
 has been postulated to have been caused
 by all but which of the following?
>
1. a nuclear bomb.
2. a comet hitting the Earth.
3. an antimatter mass hitting the Earth.
4. a black hole hitting the Earth.


#6
M:3 4
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 Shooting stars are really just small
 meteors (about the size of a grain of
 dust) burning up as they enter the
 atmosphere. At what altitude do we see
 them burning up at?
>
1. about 1 mile.
2. about 40 miles.
3. about 60 miles.
4. about 100 miles.


#7
M:1 4
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 How many craters are there on the near
 side of the moon?
>
1. about 10,000.
2. about 5000.
3. about 100.
4. about 50.

#8
M:2 4
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 'Meteor Crater' in Arizona is almost a
 full mile in diameter. How large must
 the meteor that hit Earth be to produce
 such a large crater?
>
1. about 2 meters across.
2. about 25 meters across.
3. about 100 meters across.
4. about 500 meters across.


#9
M:3 4
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 How fast was the meteor that created
 meteor crater moving when it hit the
 Earth over 15,000 years ago?
>
1. 1 mile per second.
2. 5 miles per second.
3. 10 miles per second.
4. 100 miles per second.

#10
M:4 4
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 How hot is the surface of Venus?
>
1. -100 degrees (Fahrenheit).
2. 0 degrees.
3. 500 degrees.
4. 900 degrees.

#11
Y:Y
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 Did the Viking space craft sent to
 Mars carry experiments designed to
 test for life on that planet?
>


#12
M:3 3
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 How long did it take the Voyager 2
 space craft to reach Jupiter?
>
1. 2 weeks.
2. 2 months.
3. 2 years.

#13
M:3 4
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 Jupiter is the largest planet in the
 solar system. How many planets the
 size of our Earth would fit inside?
>
1. 10.
2. 500.
3. 1000.
4. 10,000.

#14
Y:Y
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 Is the bright red spot on Jupiter
 really just a storm that has been
 raging for hundreds of years?
>

#15
M:1 3
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 What keeps the surface of Jupiter's
 moon 'Io' from appearing pockmarked
 like our moon?
>
1. volcanoes.
2. ice.
3. dust.


#16
M:2 4
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Where is the nearest asteroid belt?
>
1. between Earth and Mars.
2. between Mars and Jupiter.
3. between Jupiter and Saturn.
4. somewhere beyond the orbit of Pluto.

#17
M:1 3
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 Even though Jupiter is 1000 times
 larger than Earth and takes many Earth
 years to circle the sun, it has a
 remarkably short day. How long is a
 day on Jupiter?
>
1. about 10 hours.
2. about 7 Earth days.
3. about one Earth month.



#18
M:3 3
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 The Beaufort Scale from 0 to 12
 measures what?
>
1. temperature.
2. humidity.
3. wind speed.



#19
M:1 2
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What do you call the study of
projectiles in motion?
>
1. ballistics.
2. dynamics.


#20
M:1 4
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 Which planet is closest to the sun?
>
1. Mercury.
2. Venus.
3. Earth.
4. Mars.


#21
M:1 2
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 Who was the first man on the moon?
>
1. Neil Armstrong.
2. Buzz Aldrin.


#22
M:2 2
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 What is the name for minor planets?
>
1. meteor.
2. asteroid.


#23
M:1 3
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 How many times does the Earth circle
 the sun each year?
>
1. once.
2. twice.
3. four times.


#24
M:2 2
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 What is the nearest spiral galaxy to
 the Milky Way?
>
1. M31.
2. Andromeda.



#25
M:3 3
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 The planet Venus is 30 million times
 bigger than the largest known comet.
 Venus also has:
>
1. breathable air.
2. 17 moons.
3. about the same mass & size as Earth.


#26
M:1 4
<
 The rings of Saturn are made of ice.
 What is the average size of the
 particles in the rings?
>
1. about 1 meter across.
2. about 25 meters across.
3. about 500 meters across.
4. they are microscopic particles.


#27
M:1 2
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 The Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the
 solar system. The emptiness of space
 will preserve the spacecraft forever.
 Will Voyager 1 ever enter another
 solar system?
>
1. yes, who knows what's out there.
2. no, it will never again pass a star.


#28
M:3 3
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 How long will it take the voyager
 spacecraft to circle the Milky Way?
>
1. 1,000 years.
2. 100,000 years.
3. a few hundred million years.


#29
M:1 3
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 The earth moves in an orbit around the
 sun. How far around is that orbit?
>
1. 600,000,000 kilometers.
2. 600,000,000,000 kilometers.
3. 600,000,000,000,000 kilometers.


#30
M:2 3
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 How far away are YOU from the center of
 the galaxy?
>
1. about 1 million miles.
2. about 30,000 to 40,000 light years.
3. as far as the edge of the galaxy.


#31
M:1 3
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 How far away is M31, the closest galaxy
 (which contains more than a billion stars)?
>
1. about 2 million light years.
2. about 10 billion light years.
3. about 119 trillion light years.


#32
Y:N
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 Earth is in a relatively dim part of
 the galaxy because there are not many
 stars around like, say, near the center
 of the universe. If the sun went down
 on a planet near the center of the
 universe, would the sky grow dark?
>


#33
M:4 4
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 What year did Albert Einstein die?
>
1. 1803.
2. 1899.
3. 1946.
4. 1955.


#34
Y:Y
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 Are the two Voyager spacecraft the
 fastest machines ever launched?
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#35
M:2 3
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 How long would it take a Voyager
 spacecraft to reach the closest star
 (if it were in fact aimed in that
 direction)?
>
1. 400 years.
2. 40,000 years.
3. 4 million years.


#36
M:2 4
<
In Einsteinian physics, the word
relativity means:
>
1. particles move relatively slow.
2. there's no stationary reference point.
3. light is relatively fast.
4. light is a relative of matter.

#37
M:1 3
<
 What year did Leonardo da Vinci die?
>
1. 1519.
2. 1289.
3. 1021.

#38
Y:N
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 Is it possible to travel the speed of
 light?
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