Test Bank For 21st Century Astronomy The Solar System Fifth Edition By Kay Palen
Contents
Chapter 1 | Thinking Like an Astronomer 1
Chapter 2 | Patterns in the Sky—Motions of Earth and the Moon 18
Chapter 3 | Motion of Astronomical Bodies 37
Chapter 4 | Gravity and Orbits 53
Chapter 5 | Light 72
Chapter 6 | The Tools of the Astronomer 90
Chapter 7 | The Birth and Evolution of Planetary Systems 107
Chapter 8 | The Terrestrial Planets and Earth’s Moon 124
Chapter 9 | Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets 144
Chapter 10 | Worlds of Gas and Liquid—The Giant Planets 163
Chapter 11 | Planetary Moons and Rings 181
Chapter 12 | Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies 198
Chapter 13 | Taking the Measure of Stars 216
Chapter 14 | Our Star—The Sun 236
Chapter 15 | Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium 254
Chapter 16 | Evolution of Low-Mass Stars 273
Chapter 17 | Evolution of High-Mass Stars 292
Chapter 18 | Relativity and Black Holes 314
Chapter 19 | Galaxies 334
Chapter 20 | The Milky Way—A Normal Spiral Galaxy 356
Chapter 21 | The Expanding Universe 378
Chapter 22 | Cosmology 397
Chapter 23 | Large-Scale Structure in the Universe 419
Chapter 24 | Life 443
Bloom’s Taxonomy
This Test Bank provides 2,400 multiple choice and short answer questions. Each chapter consists of six question levels classified according to Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
