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Test Your Astronomical Awareness

Test Your Astronomical Awareness. No Pressure!. Here’s a series of astronomical questions, with no marks at stake – just for fun!. Summer Heat. 1. The Seasons. The Earth's orbit is not quite a perfect circle. (That much is indeed true.)

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Test Your Astronomical Awareness

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  1. Test Your Astronomical Awareness

  2. No Pressure! Here’s a series of astronomical questions, with no marks at stake – just for fun!

  3. Summer Heat

  4. 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?

  5. Black Holes

  6. 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?

  7. Weightlessness

  8. 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?

  9. Lunar Phases

  10. 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?

  11. Christopher Columbus

  12. 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?

  13. Harvest Moon

  14. 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?

  15. Circulating Water

  16. 7. Moving Water If you pull the plug in an ordinary sink full of water, or flush a toilet, it will drain out while circulating (swirling) in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere. Water in the identical sink or toilet would swirl in the other direction in the Southern Hemisphere. A: True or B:False?

  17. Earth’s Rotation

  18. 8. The Spinning Earth If the Earth were to gradually slow down its rotation (spin) and come to a complete stop, we would all go floating off into space. A: True or B:False?

  19. From ‘Down Under’

  20. 9. Upside-Down From Australia, the moon appears to be upside-down relative to the way we see it. A: True or B:False?

  21. Evidence from Down Under

  22. Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars

  23. Hurricane Ivan, 2004

  24. Heads Up!

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