User:Marshallsumter/Radiation astronomy/Aerometeors/Quiz

Aerometeor radiation astronomy is a lecture for the radiation astronomy department course on the principles of radiation astronomy.

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Quiz
{Usually associated with clouds filling the sky, thunder and lightning, wind and what water based meteorites { rain (i) }
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{True or False, Atmospheric rivers flow through the sky about a mile above the ocean surface. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: The 0.6m Tortugas Mountain Observatory is used to monitor the temporal changes in the { Jovian|Jupiter (i) } cloud deck and equatorial activity on { Saturn (i) }.
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{Which of the following are theoretical X-ray astronomy phenomena associated with astrophysics? + a thermal plasma mechanism + idea of a close binary + synchrotron radiation + high-density wind extinction - a polar diameter that exceeds ever so slightly the equatorial diameter at solar cycle minimum - super soft X-rays - hot active regions with temperatures hot enough to fuse hydrogen - sunspots at the feet of coronal loops
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{Complete the text: An aerometeor is a { discrete (i) } unit of air traveling or { falling (i) } through an atmosphere.
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{Which weather phenomena are most likely to interfere with observing stars? + a late-summer rainstorm - a clear sky + an approaching dust storm - below normal temperatures + a typhoon + a snow fall + fog
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{Any natural object radiating through a portion or all of a natural object's atmosphere may be called a what? { meteor (i) }
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{Yes or No, Without a scale, we really had no way to objectively communicate what would be a strong storm or a weak one. + yes - no
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{True or False, Pineapple Express storms are the most commonly represented and recognized type of atmospheric rivers. + TRUE - FALSE
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{On 19 May 1910, the Earth actually passed through the tail of what comet. { Halley's (i) }
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{True or False, The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is, in fact, the inverse phenomenon, an anticyclone. + TRUE - FALSE
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{A system of winds that spiral out from a centre of high pressure is called an { anticyclone (i) }
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{True or False, Cyclogenesis is the process of cyclone formation and intensification.. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the gaseous-object Neptune? - Voyager 2 + blue rays + clouds - neutron emission - polar coronal holes + meteor emission - rotation
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Meteors range in size from galaxy clusters to dust grains and molecular clusters.