Astronomy (Synergy Answers)

Astronomy Synergy Test Responses
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During a solar eclipse, a spot formed by a lunar shadow can reach ...
100 km
10 000 km
10 m
100 m

The neutron star ...
very big and heavy
very large and light
incredibly small and light
incredibly small and heavy
The white dwarf is ...
extinct and cooling star
a star very far from Earth
gas planet
newly formed star

Photosynthesis is possible due to the presence of plant cells ...
glucose
carbon dioxide
chlorophyll
oxygen

A supernova is born ...
as a result of the explosion of the red giant
from a gas and dust cloud
as a result of a white dwarf explosion
from a black hole

The longest days of the year are ...
September 23-24
March 20-21
December 21-22
June 21-22

The motion of the earth around the sun is explained by the action ...
inertia forces
surface tension forces
centrifugal force
elastic forces

Solar energy is the result of ...
fusion
oxidation
melting
burning

The process of planet formation can last ...
1 billion years
10 thousand years
100 thousand years
100 Ma

It’s not true that ... refers to rock properties
permeability
bulk
subsidence
solubility

In the process of aging, the Sun will turn into ...
blue dwarf
red dwarf
blue giant
red giant
One of the oldest observatories on Earth - ...
European Southern Observatory
the Pyramid of Cheops
Kukulkan pyramid
Stonehenge

“Failure in space" can be called ...
neutron star
black hole
white dwarf
supernova

The fact that the Earth has the shape of a ball ...
the first to find Pythagoras and Parmenides
Nikolay Copernicus was the first to find out
first found Galileo Galilei
Claudius Ptolemy was the first to find out

In ancient Greece, the luminaries (the Sun and the Moon) were personified by the gods ...
Zeus and Hera
Helios and Selena
Amon and Yah
Ischel and Tonatiu

Soil - the surface layer ... of the Earth
hydrospheres
atmosphere
lithosphere
technospheres
The law of gravity formulated ...
Claudius Ptolemy
Galileo Galilei
Nikolai Copernicus
Isaac Newton
The leaders in solar energy consumption are ...
people
plants
mushrooms
animals

The gas that the sun is made up of is ...
nitrogen
argon
helium
oxygen

The surface temperature of the Sun is ...
10,000 ° C
5 800 ° C
2 800 ° C
15 million ° C
Geology is a science that studies ...
groundwater only
minerals only
land surface
internal structure of the Earth and the history of its development

The shape of the Earth’s orbit has the shape ...
parallelogram
a circle
ellipse
trapeze

The work "General Natural History and Theory of Heaven" was written
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Sigmund Freud
By emmanuel kant
Rocks, consisting of one or more minerals or from a cluster of their debris, are divided into ...
clastic, igneous, and volcanic
sedimentary, metamorphic and deep
sedimentary, volcanic and deep
igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic

Earth is protected from cosmic radiation by a layer ...
nitrogen
helium
ozone
oxygen

It is not true that the human eye perceives ...
Red color
infrared radiation
purple
White light
The sun lit up about ... back
4.5 billion years
100 Ma
100 billion years
1 billion years
The closest star to Earth is ...
Venus, in ancient times called the "morning star"
polar Star
The sun
Alpha Centauri

The main structural elements of the earth´s crust on the continents, in the areas of archipelagos and shallow seas, are ...
geosynclinal regions, platforms and marginal troughs
only marginal deflections
only geosynclinal areas
platforms only

Development of the use of solar energy began in ...
I c.
XXI century
XX century
XIV century