Astronomy Chapter 3 Exam Questions Correctly Answered.
1) People of central Africa predicted the weather by
A) recording the seasonal changes in average temperature.
B) observing the path of the planets across the sky.
C) observing the length of the lunar cycle.
D) observing the orientat...
Astronomy Chapter 3 Exam Questions
Correctly Answered.
1) People of central Africa predicted the weather by
A) recording the seasonal changes in average temperature.
B) observing the path of the planets across the sky.
C) observing the length of the lunar cycle.
D) observing the orientation of the crescent Moon relative to the horizon.
E) observing the location of the Moon relative to the Sun in the sky. - CORRECT ANSWER D
2) The names of the seven days of the week are based on the
A) seven naked-eye objects that appear to move among the constellations.
B) seven planets closest to the Sun.
C) seven brightest stars in the prominent constellation Orion.
D) most popular Norse gods.
E) seven largest constellations of the ancient world. - CORRECT ANSWER A
3) Suppose the planet Uranus were much brighter in the sky, so that it was as easily visible to the naked
eye as Jupiter or Saturn. Which one of the following statements would most likely be true in that case?
A) Its brightness would make it possible to read by starlight at night.
B) Its gravity would cause the tides to be much higher than they actually are.
C) Its slow motion through the sky would have led it to be named after the Goddess of Procrastination.
D) The discovery that Earth is a planet going around the Sun would have come hundreds of years earlier.
E) A week would have eight days instead of seven. - CORRECT ANSWER E
4) Compared with the standard hour of 60 minutes used today, the hour of ancient Egypt
A) was longer than the hour used today.
B) was shorter than the hour used today.
C) differed in length depending on the pharaoh in power at the time.
, D) was longer than 60 minutes in the summer and shorter than 60 minutes in the winter.
E) divided the entire day into 12 equal parts. - CORRECT ANSWER D
5) In order to tell time at night, the ancient Egyptians of 3000 B.C. used
A) sundials, with light provided by the Moon.
B) water clocks, measuring the flow of water through an opening.
C) hourglasses, measuring the flow of sand through an opening.
D) Moon clocks, which measured time based on the Moon's position relative to the stars.
E) star clocks, which measured time based on the positions of stars at particular times of night and
particular times of year. - CORRECT ANSWER E
6) Historians trace the origins of a 24-hour day to
A) the druids of Stonehenge.
B) the ancient Egyptians.
C) the Mayans.
D) the Aztecs.
E) the Babylonian astronomer, Meton. - CORRECT ANSWER B
7) What do the structures of Stonehenge, the Templo Mayor, and the Sun Dagger all have in common?
A) They were all places used for religious sacrifice.
B) They were all built on the orders of ancient Mediterranean kings.
C) They all can be used as lunar calendars.
D) They were all used by ancient peoples for astronomical observations.
E) all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER D
8) At the Sun Dagger in New Mexico, a dagger-shaped beam of sunlight pierces a spiral
A) every day at noon.
B) at noon on the summer solstice.
C) at sunset on the spring equinox.
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