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8. 64,200,000,000 is equal to
a. 6.42107
b. 6.4210−7
c. 6.421010
d. 6.4210−10
e. 1.01064.2
ANS: C PTS: 1
12. If the light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the sun and the nearest star is 4.7 ly from the sun, what
is the distance from the sun to the nearest star in astronomical units?
a. 37.6 AU
b. 1.7 AU
c. 214 AU
d. 310,000 AU
e. 1.51011 AU
ANS: D PTS: 1
15. The radius of the moon's orbit is about ____ times larger than the radius of Earth.
a. 0.6
b. 6
c. 60
d. 600
e. 6000
ANS: C PTS: 1
20. If the Milky Way Galaxy contains 100 billion stars and only one star in 100 has an Earth-like planet,
how many stars in the Milky Way Galaxy have Earth-like planets?
a. 1
b. 1000
c. 1,000,000
d. 1,000,000,000 = one billion
e. 100 billion
ANS: A PTS: 1
21. In science fiction movies, it is common to use a space craft to travel across the Milky Way Galaxy or
to assert that we have been visited by alien space craft from the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy. If
one has a space craft that can travel at the speed of light, to an observer on the earth, how long will it
take to go from one edge of the Milky Way Galaxy to the other and return?
a. 4.6 years
b. 9.2 years
c. 1000 years
d. 15,000 years
e. 150,000 years
ANS: E PTS: 1
22. Suppose we wish to travel to the nearest star using a super space ship capable of traveling at 11010
km/yr. We have nothing even close to this space ship yet. How long will it take us to get to the nearest
star which is about 41013 km away from us?
a. 4 years
b. 400 years
c. 4000 years
d. 4 billion years
ANS: C PTS: 1
23. What does the size of the image of a star in a photograph tell us about the star?
a. the diameter of the star
b. the brightness of the star
c. the mass of the star
d. the temperature of the star
e. the distance to the star
ANS: B PTS: 1
24. Earth has a radius of about 6400 km, the sun has a radius of about 7.0105 km, and a rubber ball has a
radius of 6.4 cm. If you were to construct a scale model of the solar system using the rubber ball to
represent the earth, what is the radius of a ball needed to represent the sun in your model?
a. 7.0105 cm
b. 7.0 cm
c. 700 cm
d. 70 cm
e. 7000 cm
ANS: C PTS: 1
25. Earth has a radius of about 6400 km, the sun has a radius of about 7.0105 km. Assume Earth to be a
typical planet and the sun to be a typical star. If you were to attempt to use a telescope to observe an
Earth type planet circling the nearest star, one AU from that star, which would be easier to see with the
telescope, the star or the planet?
a. Both would be equally hard to observe.
b. the star
c. the planet
d. Both would be easily observed.
ANS: C PTS: 1
26. If the Earth were represented as a basketball (~10 in) and the Moon as a baseball (~3 in) then, to order
of magnitude, what size would best represent the diameter of the Sun?
a. 10 ft
b. 100 ft
c. 1000 ft
d. 10000 ft
ANS: B PTS: 1
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