Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, To The Sky!, Chapter 22, Tiptoeing Through the Milky Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the "great demotions" that Sagan cites?
(a) Light and magnetism are the same thing.
(b) There are planets orbiting other stars.
(c) The Earth is 6 billion years old.
(d) There may have been life on Mars.

2. The primary discipline that Sagan argues nations benefit from by investing in space exploration is called which of the following?
(a) Interstellar surveying.
(b) Gestalt geosurveying.
(c) Planetary science.
(d) Atmospheric metrics.

3. What is the most important thing that would immediately be apparent to any alien intelligence that found the Voyager probes?
(a) The human DNA sequence.
(b) The location of Earth.
(c) That the probes were intelligently designed.
(d) How to decode the records.

4. How fast was Voyager I moving in 1990?
(a) 10,000 mph.
(b) 500 mph.
(c) 1,000 mph.
(d) 40,000 mph.

5. What is the constituent particle of light?
(a) The photon.
(b) The neutron.
(c) The electron.
(d) The neutrino.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Voyager probes found large amounts of what element on Titan?

2. What hazard from nuclear weapons causes "nuclear winter"?

3. What is the primary way that humans add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

4. What was the major result of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Collision?

5. What astronomical discovery did Galileo make that significantly damaged the geocentric theory?

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