,TEST BANK
21st Century Astronomy
FIFTH EDITION
TEST BANK
21st Century Astronomy
FIFTH EDITION
LAURA KAY ◆ STACY PALEN ◆ GEORGE BLUMENTHAL
JOSHUA THOMAS
Clarkson University
PARVIZ GHAVAMIAN
Towson University
ADRIANA DURBALA
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • NEW YORK • LONDON
W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William
Warder Norton and Mary D. Herter Norton first published lectures delivered at the People’s
Institute, the adult education division of New York City’s Cooper Union. The firm soon
expanded its program beyond the Institute, publishing books by celebrated academics from
America and abroad. By mid-century, the two major pillars of Norton’s publishing program—
trade books and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family
transferred control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of four hundred and
a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published each year—W. W.
Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest publishing house owned wholly by its
,employees.
Copyright © 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2002 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Associate Digital Media Editor: Julia T. Sammaritano
Production Manager: Andy Ensor
Composition by Graphic World, Inc.
ISBN 978-0-393-93899-9
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www.wwnorton.com
W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT
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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
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Questions are further classified by section and difficulty, making it easy to construct tests and
21st Century Astronomy
FIFTH EDITION
TEST BANK
21st Century Astronomy
FIFTH EDITION
LAURA KAY ◆ STACY PALEN ◆ GEORGE BLUMENTHAL
JOSHUA THOMAS
Clarkson University
PARVIZ GHAVAMIAN
Towson University
ADRIANA DURBALA
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • NEW YORK • LONDON
W. W. Norton & Company has been independent since its founding in 1923, when William
Warder Norton and Mary D. Herter Norton first published lectures delivered at the People’s
Institute, the adult education division of New York City’s Cooper Union. The firm soon
expanded its program beyond the Institute, publishing books by celebrated academics from
America and abroad. By mid-century, the two major pillars of Norton’s publishing program—
trade books and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family
transferred control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of four hundred and
a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published each year—W. W.
Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest publishing house owned wholly by its
,employees.
Copyright © 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2002 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Associate Digital Media Editor: Julia T. Sammaritano
Production Manager: Andy Ensor
Composition by Graphic World, Inc.
ISBN 978-0-393-93899-9
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
www.wwnorton.com
W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT
1234567890
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
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Questions are further classified by section and difficulty, making it easy to construct tests and
