Planets/Histories/Quiz

History of the planets is a lecture presented by the radiation astronomy department.

You are free to take this quiz based on history of the planets at any time.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, If the planets evolved from the same disk that produced the Sun, their orbital poles should align with the Sun's rotational pole to conserve angular momentum. + Yes - No
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{True or False, The classical history period dates from around 2,000 to 1,000 b2k. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Before the current era and perhaps before 6,000 b2k which classical planet may have been green? { Osiris|Saturn (i) }
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{True or False, The early history period dates from around 3,000 to 2,000 b2k. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are cosmogonical phenomenon associated with the Sun, or solar system? + watery abyss + aphrodite + Hermeneutes - cold dark matter + Heracles - unseen mass + Silver age
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{True or False, The ancient history period dates from around 8,000 to 3,000 b2k. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: Match up the type of Sun system astrogony with each of the possibilities below: Babylonian epic story of creation - A a primordial or first Greek god - B the primeval chaos - C creation of heaven and earth - D Greek god personifying the sky - E Cronus (Saturn) castrating his father - F separation of the waters by a firmament { D (i) }. Chaos magno { B (i) }. Uranus { F (i) }. watery abyss { C (i) }. Ouranos { E (i) } Enuma Elish { A (i) }.
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{True or False, The Holocene starts at ~11,700 b2k and extends to the present. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Aphrodite is linked to the Moon through her epithet { Pasiphaessa|Pasiphaessa (i) }
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{Complete the text: The moon was formed independently of the earth and later { captured (i) }, presumably by a { three-body| three body (i) } interaction.
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{True or False, The base of the Neolithic is approximated to 12,200 b2k. + TRUE - FALSE
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{True or False, Mercury may have once been a satellite of Jupiter, or possibly of Saturn. + TRUE - FALSE
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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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{True or False, The mesolithic period dates from around 13,000 to 8,500 b2k. + TRUE - FALSE
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Hypotheses

 * 1) The descriptions of planets in classical literature refer to events in an earlier time.