Test Bank
Test Bank
,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
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, 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 quizzes that are meaningful
and diagnostic.
Test Bank files are available in Word, PDF, and ExamView® Assessment Suite formats.
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Test Bank
,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
v
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, 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 quizzes that are meaningful
and diagnostic.
Test Bank files are available in Word, PDF, and ExamView® Assessment Suite formats.
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