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Asynchronous Quiz 20
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Written Nov 19, 2023 4:29 PM - Nov 19, 2023 4:30 PM
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 4. Question 1. Watch the Unit 10 Part 4 lecture
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video and answer the following question: What are the most abundant
types of exoplanets found so far?
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 4. Question 2. Watch the Unit 10 Part 4 lecture
video and answer the following question: What is a hot Jupiters?
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 4. Question 3. Watch the Unit 10 Part 4 lecture
video and answer the following question: In addition to being bigger, how
are super-Earth's likely different from our planet?
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a. Gas giants
b. Ice giants
c. Super Earths and mini Neptunes
d. Rocky terrestrials
a. A rocky exoplanet that orbits extremely close to its star
b. The most abundant type of exoplanet found so far.
c. A gas giant like Jupiter that orbits extremely close to its star.
d. A gas giant much hotter than Jupiter even though it is at an orbital
distance similar to Jupiter relative to its own star.
a. They likely have significantly more water
b. They likely have hydrogen atmospheres
c. They are likely hotter at the top of their atmospheres
d. They likely have planetary rings
Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 5. Question 4. Watch the Unit 10 Part 5 lecture
video and answer the following question: When is a planet considered to
be in the habitable zone?
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 5. Question 5. Watch the Unit 10 Part 5 lecture
video and answer the following question: If a star is larger than our Sun,
where would its habitable zone be located compared to our Solar System.
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 5. Question 6. Watch the Unit 10 Part 5 lecture
video and answer the following question: Which factor is considered in the
calculation of an exoplanet's Earth Similarity Index?
a. When it shows signs of life
b. When it is the same distance from its star that Earth is from the
Sun
c. When it has the right temperature to support liquid water on its
surface
d. When it is the same size as Earth
a. Closer to the star
b. Farther away from the star
c. The distance of the habitable zone is not affected by the distance
from the star
a. Its radius
b. Its escape velocity
c. Its surface temperature
d. All the above
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 5. Question 7. Watch the Unit 10 Part 5 lecture
video and answer the following question: What is unique about the
exoplanet Proxima b?
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 6. Question 8. Watch the Unit 10 Part 6 lecture
video and answer the following question: How many galaxies are there
estimated to be in the visible universe?
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 6. Question 9. Watch the Unit 10 Part 6 lecture
video and answer the following question: For which of the following are
there more of these than grains of sand on Earth?
a. It is the only potentially habitable planet the same size and
distance from its star as Earth is from the Sun.
b. It is the closest potentially habitable planet we'll ever find.
c. It has the highest Earth Similarity Index of any exoplanet found so
far.
d. It is the only potentially habitable planet that orbits a red dwarf.
a. 4 thousand
b. 4 million
c. 4 billion
d. 4 trillion
a. Stars
b. Planets
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Quiz 20: Unit 10. Part 6. Question 10. Watch the Unit 10 Part 6 lecture
video and answer the following question: Which of the following are
possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox?
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c. Earth-like planets
d. All the above
a. We are not looking in the right places — space is vast, and we can
only listen in a few directions at a time.
b. Alien civilizations do not communicate in the radio spectrum like
we do, and thus we do not know how to recognize their signals yet.
c. Transmissions from alien civilizations are too weak to pick up
because of vast distances.
d. All the above