VIDEO TEST #1 - ASSIGNMENT #1
PATRICK STEWART NARRATES "THE INNER PLANETS" (PART 1)

EXCERPTS FROM VIDEO TEST#1

Pay close attention to the video and answer the questions.

1. Because of the color of the rocks and soil on its surface, “Mars is called the ________ planet.”

2. “Billions of years ago Mars once had an abundance of ______________   ______________.”

5. “Venus is covered with an extremely dense and cloudy ___________________________.”

9. “Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun.  About 13 times each century, this small world appears to
___________ the face of the ____________ as seen from Earth.”

10. “The Sun is a seething cauldron of hot gas, mostly:
   a) Helium    b) Chlorine    c) Nitrogen    d) Oxygen    e) Hydrogen
 

VIDEO TEST #2 - ASSIGNMENT #2
PATRICK STEWART NARRATES "THE OUTER PLANETS" (PART 2)

EXCERPTS FROM VIDEO TEST#2

Pay close attention to the video and answer the questions.

2. Voyager 1 and 2, gave us some magnificent close-ups of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere, including the
mysterious Great Red Spot, an      a) all out rain storm      b) oasis of water      c) anti-cyclone      d) umbrella...
four times the size of the earth that has persisted for at least ____________ years!

3. (The Jupiter moon) “Europa is covered by a frozen ocean.  Some scientist believe
 _______________   ________________  may lie below the ice.”

4. (Saturn’s moon) “Titan, larger than the planet ______________. It supports its own atmosphere.”

8. (Uranus’ moon) “Miranda, a moon which had apparently been blown apart then reassembled by the  force of:
 a) gravity      b) nuclear power      c) electricity      d) magnetism

11. Neptune’s most striking feature is the Great Dark Spot.  “The dark spot is actually a Huge whirling
 ______________ in Neptune’s atmosphere.  The dark spot is so large, the entire _____________
 could easily fit inside it.”

EXCERPTS FROM  "DOOMSDAY ASTEROID" and "ON JUPITER"
3. What makes a meteor or asteroid burn up (shines bright as it is burning up) before it hits the ground?    9:50  ______________________________________

4A. The large meteorite which created 13 craters when it impacted Australia 5000 years ago was made mostly out of:
a) Carbon          b) iron      c) Ice      d) Hydrogen    11:25

5B. Impact craters on the moon have recently been discovered to have been formed by:   19:40
  a) comet gasses        b) asteroid impacts     c) volcanoes     d) earthquakes      e) moonquakes

6A. The meteor crater that is over a mile wide that was made when a meteor crashed about 50,000 years ago is in what American state? _____________ 16:50 + 20:05

6B. What object is believed to have destroyed all Dinosaurs? ___________________________. How long ago did it happen? ___________________   23:40 + 24:35

9B, 10A. On the night of January 7, 1610 Galileo Galilei made a discovery that challenged and changed our beliefs and views of the Earth and the solar system.  What did he discover?  3:45_________________________________________________

16. “ (David Levy speaking) “...If Jupiter wasn’t there, comets and asteroids would be running around and smashing into Earth...”  Why is it important for Jupiter to be a member of our solar system? 45:20 _______________________________________________________
 

7th/8th Grade Video Tests

Video Test
“PLANETS”
EXCERPTS FROM the "PLANETS" VIDEO TEST
1. Five billion years ago from a swirling massive cloud was born:
  a) the Moon         b) the Sun         c) the Universe     d) the galaxy      e) the Earth

2. The Sun is big enough to hold more than a:
  a) thousand Earths     b) million Earths     c) billion Earths     d) trillion Earths
 
5. The culture that made detailed records in astronomy 6,000 years ago was:
  a) the Chinese      b) the Arabs     c) the Egyptians     d) the Greeks      e) the Aztecs

13.  The Italian astronomer who studied Jupiter’s moon and later it was the orbits of these moons
that convinced him that the planets orbit the sun was:
a) Isaac Newton         b) Nicolas Copernicus      c) Albert Einstein         d) Galileo Galilei

14. Jupiter’s rocky core is about ___________________ as big as the Earth.

19. The blue color of Neptune is from the presence of:
a) Oxygen gas       b) Carbon dioxide     c) liquid water      d) ice crystals    e) methane gas
 

Alien Weather - Planet Storm
EXCERPTS FROM “ALIEN WEATHER”Planet Storm Video Test
1. Dust storms on      a) Earth      b) Mars      c) Jupiter     …last longer and stronger.

2. The number one problem Earth astronauts will face when they are on Mars is:
 a) finding water     b) the weather     c) temperature extremes    d) heat strokes

4. One common type of storm found on both Earth deserts and Martian deserts are:
a) dust devils        b) hailstorms     c) snowstorms      d) magnetic storms     e) solar flares

10.  a) TRUE  or  b) FALSE:   Jupiter gives out more energy than it receives from the Sun.

12. The biggest storm on Earth is the:  a) hurricane b) flood    c) Siberian blast     d) tornado

18. Poisonous gas from Hawaii ‘s active Kilauea volcano produce …
a) carbon-dioxide      b) sulphur-dioxide     c) Sulphuric acid      d) Ozone     e) Methane

19. If a dangerous Solar event happened, all the warning we would get would be:
 a) 10 seconds     b) 10 minutes     c) 10 hours     d) 10 days     e) 10 months     f) 10 years
 
 

"CREATION" VIDEO TEST
EXCERPTS FROM CREATION VIDEO TEST
The type of scientist trying to unlock the origin and destiny of everything we see around us is called a:
a) cosmologist  b) psychologist c) nutritionist  d) biochemist  e) geologist

One of the most recent finds has been that the universe is not only expanding but it is:
a) slowing down  b)speeding up  c) coming to a full stop  d) disappearing

It is almost impossible for us to imagine, but before the creation of the universe there was no __________.

Twelve billion years ago there was absolutely nothing, no matter, no space, no __________.  We may never know why or how it happened but a seething mass of energy smaller than an atom grew from __________.

Einstein’s famous equation E=MC2, told us that _____________ and mass were inter-changeable.

The universe contains over one hundred ________________ galaxies.
 

"STAR DUST" FROM "THE ASTRONOMERS" SERIES

EXCERPTS FROM STAR DUST VIDEO TEST

Watch the video and pay close attention to the questions and answers.

1. The man who discovered over 50 years ago how stars shine and how the energy in stars was generated by
nuclear fusion was:  a) Albert Einstein      b) Isaac Newton      c) Hans Bethe      d) Stephen Hawking

2.  The sun shines by nuclear fusion, where Hydrogen is fused into more complex elements.  In this process matter
is transformed into energy according to Einstein’s equation:
   a)  X + Y = Z      b)  E = MC²      c)  area = base times height      d)  a = Br2       e) A2  + B2  = C2

5. On February 23, 1987 an explosion was detected that was a thousand trillion, trillion
(1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) (same as1027) times more powerful than the hydrogen bomb, it was a
____________________, a massive star had undergone a dramatic death!

9. A pulsar forms from the core of a dying star.  As the supernova explodes outward, the stars core is crushed by
gravity and collapses inward to form a spinning super dense object called a:
   a) Pulsar      b) Black hole      c) Red Giant      d) Meteor     e) Ring system      f) Neutron star

13. As the Sun expands, it will become a __________   ____________, enveloping the inner planets.  Our seas will evaporate
and life on Earth will be consumed by the Sun’s outer heat.  The star that gave our planet life will take it away.