Test Bank For 21st Century Astronomy The Solar System Fifth Edition By Kay Palen

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