Draft:Original research/Venus/Quiz

Venus is a lecture about the study of this astronomical object.

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{Complete the text: When imaged in visible light Venus appears like a gas { dwarf (i) } rather than a { rocky (i) } planet.
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{True or False, The rocky surface of the planet Venus can be detected when Venus is observed using infrared astronomy. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with violet astronomy? - photographs of the planet Venus taken in 1927 - the purple haze within a few arcseconds of the central star of the Homunculus - the faintness of carbon stars - the stellar abundance of aluminum - adaptive optics + the helium beta line
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{Yes or No, When Venus is viewed in the ultraviolet, its color appears brownish. - Yes + No
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{Moldavite is a mineral that may be associated with what radiation astronomy phenomenon? - predicting the end of the Earth - determining the accuracy of local computers + meteorite impacts - demonstrating that Venus was once a comet - predicting when currently dormant volcanoes will erupt + fireballs
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{Which types of radiation astronomy directly observe the rocky-object surface of Venus? - meteor astronomy - cosmic-ray astronomy - neutron astronomy - proton astronomy - beta-ray astronomy - neutrino astronomy - gamma-ray astronomy - X-ray astronomy - ultraviolet astronomy - visual astronomy - infrared astronomy - submillimeter astronomy + radio astronomy + radar astronomy + microwave astronomy - superluminal astronomy
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{The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is an astronomical document produced to help astronomers for what purpose? - predict the end of the Earth - determine the accuracy of local computers + accurately predict the equinoxes - demonstrate that Venus was once a comet - predict when currently dormant volcanoes will erupt - demonstrate that the local pyramids were built by aliens
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{Which of the following phenomena are associated with Venus? + separate stars, Phosphorus, the morning star, and Hesperus, the evening star - locally available carving tools + the ionosphere was observed to become elongated downstream, rather like a long-tailed comet, during a rare period of very low density solar outflow + Lucifer, literally "Light-Bringer", and Vesper - currently dormant volcanoes only on the Sun-facing side - a breathable atmosphere
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{Venus is not known historically for which of the following? + being in orbit around the Sun in 10,000 b2k - imaged by the Magellan probe - a gas dwarf when viewed in the ultraviolet - almost as large as the Earth - may have appeared comet-like in human memory - having a high surface temperature
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{Complete the text: Match up the object viewed in the ultraviolet with its image: Sun's chromosphere- L calcite - M Venus - N Jupiter's aurora - O Jupiter - P Io - Q Saturn - R Betelgeuse - S Mira - T LAB-1 - U Messier 101 - V { L (i) }. { Q (i) }. { T (i) }. { N (i) }. { R (i) }. { O (i) }. { U (i) } { S (i) }. { P (i) }. { M (i) }. { V (i) }.
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