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Astronomy Midterm Quiz

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1. Altitude is?




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2. For an observer in New Brunswick, NJ, what range of azimuth would include all the locations on the horizon at which stars can rise?




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3. 3/4 moon phases are called?




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4. Hypatia's birth date and contributions:




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5. Circumpolar stars are?




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6. The sailor moon crescent moon is actually called?




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7. What is a theory?




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8. What season is the sun the highest and thus has the longest days?




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9. Aristarchus' birth date and theories:




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10. The Ptolemaic System




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11. The apparent dome of the sky




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12. The 18 year 11 month period of eclipse cycles




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13. (longitude) angle along celestial equator




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14. The circle from north through zenith to south




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15. 4 minutes




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16. Summer




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17. 1. Observation of nature 2. Detection of patterns or regularities 3. Induction of underlying laws of nature 4. Deductive prediction of new phenomena 5. Experimental test of predictions 6. Generalization and reduction




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18. (latitude) angle north or south of the equator towards celestial pole




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19. A half moon, the white part being on the right. The last quarter has the white part on the left.




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20. (428-348 BC) Theory has a "real" world of perfection vs our "visible" world of perception. Hard for his theories to be disproved by evidence bc his theories cannot be proven wrong.





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