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ASTRONOMY CSCC - EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Extraterrestrial life is defined to be - Answer️️ -any kind of life found beyond the Earth Humanity has been thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life - Answer️️ -throughout human history since the time of the an...

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ASTRONOMY CSCC - EXAM 1 STUDY
GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Extraterrestrial life is defined to be - Answer✔️✔️-any kind of life found
beyond the Earth

Humanity has been thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life -
Answer✔️✔️-throughout human history since the time of the ancient Greeks

Astronomy has shown us that the fundamental laws of physics are -
Answer✔️✔️-the same everywhere in the universe

The discovery of any kind of life beyond the Earth would - Answer✔️✔️-
cause a profound change in perspective of the whole of humanity

Beneath the surface of which moon of Saturn is there evidence for the
existence of a subsurface ocean of liquid water? - Answer✔️✔️-Enceladus

The ancient view of an Earth-centered geocentric universe suggested that
life elsewhere should be - Answer✔️✔️-rare

Astrobiology as a field of scientific research, includes contributions from -
Answer✔️✔️-many different scientific disciplines

Among the other planets, probably the most likely place to find evidence
for life either now or in the past is on - Answer✔️✔️-Mars




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For most of human history it was believed that the Earth was at the center
of the universe. This idea is referred to as - Answer✔️✔️-geocentric

The modern view of our place in the universe suggests that life elsewhere
may be - Answer✔️✔️-common

Apparent retrograde motion occurs when a planet appears to - Answer✔️✔️-
move westward with respect to background stars

The seven days of the week are related to the - Answer✔️✔️-Sun, Moon and
five naked eye planets

The Ptolemaic model has planets moving in - Answer✔️✔️-
smallcircles,thecentersofwhichmoveinalargercircleabouttheEarth

The geocentric model of the Greeks consisted of a - Answer✔️✔️-spherical
Earth at the center of the universe surrounded by a celestial sphere

In the heliocentric (Sun-centered) model, apparent retrograde motion is
due to - Answer✔️✔️-relative motion between the Earth and another planet
in its orbit

One fundamental consequence of the Copernican model which many
people had difficulty accepting at the time it was proposed was that the
Earth - Answer✔️✔️-must be moving through space

According to Kepler's Second Law of planetary motion, a planet moves
fastest in its orbit when it is - Answer✔️✔️-at perihelion




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