Exoplanets and Light Pollution Review

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Science
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11th Grade
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Rachel Smith
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A light curve is associated with which method of exoplanet detection?
Radial velocity
Transit
Astrometry
Gravitational Microlensing
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of these methods has detected the fewest exoplanets so far?
Radial Velocity
Direct Imaging
Astrometry
Gravitational Microlensing
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Astrometry is looking for the same sort of thing (wobble) as which other method?
Direct Imaging
Gravitational Microlensing
Transit
Radial Velocity
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An exoplanet fails which part of the definition of "planet"?
Must orbit the Sun
Must not be a moon of another object
Must have cleared its orbital neighborhood
Must be round by its own gravity
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Roughly how many exoplanets have we discovered so far?
100
500
2000
6000
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which detection method has found most of the exoplanets we know about?
Radial Velocity
Transit
Direct Imaging
Gravitational Microlensing
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which exoplanet detection method looks for an "eclipse" of the star by its exoplanet?
Gravitational Microlensing
Radial Velocity
Transit
Direct Imaging
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