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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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No Pressure! Here’s a series of astronomical questions, with no marks at stake – just for fun!
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
9. Upside-Down From Australia, the moon appears to be upside-down relative to the way we see it. A: True or B:False?
