Chapter 3 Quiz

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Probes have had difficulty landing on ____________, since the pressure of its atmosphere is too great
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Aside from Earth, which inner planet once had liquid water on its surface?
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Which is the smallest terrestrial planet?
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Why do sunspots appear to be darker than the areas around them?
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The heliocentric system gained support when Galileo observed that
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In a heliocentric system, the planets revolve around
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Venus and Earth are much alike in terms of
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The fact that each planet’s orbit is an ellipse was discovered by
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The solar wind is a stream of electrically charged particles that extend outward from the sun’s
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What layer are you looking at when you look at an image of the sun?
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Huge, reddish loops of gas that link different parts of sunspot regions are called
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What do all of the inner planets have in common?
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Which of the following astronomers did NOT support the heliocentric system?
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The sun’s atmosphere includes all of the following EXCEPT
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The sun produces energy by