Astronomy Conceptions and Misconceptions

1. The Sun is

• not a star.
• A star

2. The Sun

• disappears at night.
• always creates day.

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3. The Sun will

• never burn out.
• burn out in 100,000 years
• burn out in 6 billion years.
• could nova at any time

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4. The surface of the Sun is

• without visible features.
• too bright to observe the surface
• perfectly smooth due to the intense force of gravity
• bubbles, swirls, and geysers plasma

5. The Sun rises

• exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west every day.
• exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west every full moon.
• exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west twice a year.
• exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west, depending on time and location.

6. The Sun is always directly south at

• 12:00 noon.
• 12:00 noon when ignoring daylight savings time
• 12:00 noon when ignoring time zones at solar noon
• Is rarely directly south due to location and time zones

7. The tip of a shadow always moves along

• A straight east-west line.
• A curved east-west line.
• A straight east-west line within the tropics
• A curved east-west line within the tropics

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8. The amount of daylight

• increases each day of summer.
• increases for half of summer and decreases for the other half.
• decreases each day of summer.
• decreases eases for half of summer and increases for the other half.

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9. We experience seasons because of Earth’s changing distance from the Sun–––closer in summer, farther in winter.

• True
• False

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10. The largest object in the solar system.

• The sun
• Jupiter
• Earth
• The hole

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