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CQ2 no moon
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1You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, which way are you looking?- ANorth
- BSouth
- CEast
- DWest
2You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, where are you?- AEquator
- BPhiladelphia
- CNorth Pole
- DSouth Pole
3 You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots (out of the ground), where are you?- AEquator
- BPhiladelphia
- CNorth Pole
- DSouth Pole
4You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots (out of the ground, going up) which way are you looking?- ANorth
- BSouth
- CEast
- DWest
5You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, where are you?- AEquator
- BPhiladelphia
- CNorth Pole
- DSouth Pole
6You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, which way are you looking?- ASouth
- BNorth
- CEast
- DWest
7You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, where are you?- AEquator
- BPhiladelphia
- CNorth Pole
8You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, which way are you looking?- ANorth
- BSouth
- CEast
- DWest
- EAny Direction but Up
9You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, are you?- AStanding up and looking straight out
- BLooking up
10You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, where are you?- AEquator
- BPhiladelphia
- CSouth Pole
- DNorth Pole
11You are watching the stars overnight.
If the motion of the stars is indicated by the dots, which way are you looking?- AStraight out
- BUp
- CSouth
12Why are different stars seen in different seasons?
- Abecause of Earth’s axis tilt
- Bbecause stars move during the year
- Cbecause as Earth orbits the Sun, the night side of Earth faces in different directions
- Dbecause of precession
13On about September 22, the Sun sets directly to the west as shown on the diagram below. Where did the Sun set two weeks earlier?
- AFarther south
- BIn the same place
- CFarther north
14If the tilt of Earth’s axis to its orbital plane was 40 degrees, instead of 23 ½, but its distance from the Sun remained the same, what would happen to the seasons?
- AThey wouldn’t change much.
- BThey would become less extreme–winter and summer would be more alike.
- CThey would become more extreme–winter colder and summer warmer.
- DAll of Earth would get colder.
- EAll of Earth would get warmer.
15If you could see stars during the day, this is what the sky would look like at noon on a given day. The Sun is near the stars of the constellation Gemini. Near which constellation would you expect the Sun to be located at sunset?
- ALeo
- BGemini
- CPisces
- DCancer
- ETaurus
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- Quiz on CQ2 no moon, created by throwa74 on 30/04/2015.
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