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Seeds - Foundations of Astronomy 10/e (Homework)

James Finch

Astronomy, section 1, Fall 2019

Instructor: Dr. Friendly

Current Score : 1 / 24

Due : Monday, January 28, 2030 00:00 EST

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    Chapter 3 of e-Book In this assignment you will see several of the question types found in Foundations of Astronomy 10e by Michael A. Seeds published by Brooks/Cole Publishing.

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    Question 1 and 2 are Reading questions (RE). Reading questions test for comprehension of the text material. Instructors can assign these questions as incentive to the students to keep up on the reading assignments. An eBook version of the text is linked to each reading question to enable the student to review text material. For this sample assignment, only chapter 3 is available.

    Question 3 is an assignable Active Figure question (AF).

    Question 4 is a Guidepost Question (GP).

    Question 5 and 6 are Review Questions (RQ).

    Question 7 is a Problem (P).

    Question 8 is a Ranking Task Exercise (RTE). This demo assignment allows many submissions and allows you to try another version of the same question for practice.

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What part of the sun is visible during the "peak" of a total solar eclipse?

     Correct: Your answer is correct.

CORRECT!
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How does one cycle of the moon's motion relative to the stars compare to one cycle of the moon's motion relative to the sun?
    
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Lunar Phases

(a) By approximately how many degrees does the moon's position change from one day to the next?
    

(b) The full moon is never visible at noon.
    

(c) In this animation, Earth's rotation is not illustrated. If Earth did not rotate, how would our view of the moon differ?
    
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In Section 3-2, you learned how the positions of the moon, sun, and Earth create the right conditions for total and partial lunar eclipses to occur. Based on what you learned about lunar eclipses, select all of the correct statements from the following list.

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Imagine you're an astronaut standing on the moon and looking back at Earth. What phase would Earth have when the moon is in the following phases?
(a) What phase would Earth have when the moon is full?


(b) What phase would Earth have when the moon is new?


(c) What phase would Earth have when the moon is at first quarter?


(d) What phase would Earth have when the moon is a waxing crescent?
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The postage stamp below shows a crescent moon in a starry night sky. What is wrong with the depiction of the moon in this picture?
    
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How many times larger than the moon is the diameter of Earth's umbral shadow at the moon's distance? (Hint: See the photo in Figure 3-4.)
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(a) Rank the lunar phases shown in the order that they appear during a month: waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon.

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(b) Rank the lunar phases in the order of the time of day the moon will rise in each phase: waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon.
first phase
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(c) Rank the lunar phases in the order of the amount of the night you will see the moon in each phase: waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon.
first phase
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