Volume 14 Issue 04April 2008
What's Up? -- April 2008
    This month take a mid-term exam on some familiar and not so familiar Astronomical terms. Right-Click on this link to download the entire 'exam' as an ASCII text file.
An Astronomical Vocabulary Test
Instructions:
Place the letter of the correct astronomical entity next to the number of its identifying description.
A. telescope   1. Opposite of the minimum amount 
B. diffraction grating   2. Temperature = 95, Humidity = 98%
C. ionosphere   3. Ernest bangs on ALL the windows! 
D. mean solar day   4. Go ahead, we don't mind being insulted 
E. Deimos  5. 3/6 = 1/2
F. vernal equinox  6. 75 right out of 100 gives you a "C".
G. gibbous moon  7. I'm really on the ball! 
H. refraction  8. Astronomonocle Unit 
Answers:
A-8, B-6, C-7, D-2, E-1, F-3, G-4, H-5
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