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title: Telescopes and light — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Space
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 27 «Telescopes and light» of the space course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Telescopes and light

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The 15 questions of lesson 27 «Telescopes and light» of the space course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/27-telescopes-and-light/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t1/) — Noah thinks the main point of a telescope is to make stars look bigger. What is closer to the truth? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t2/) — Two telescopes are the same except one mirror is much wider. Which shows fainter stars? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t3/) — hey can i look at the sun with my dad's binoculars quick? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t4/) — Why did Hubble get blurry pictures at first, and how was it fixed? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t5/) — In a cartoon, a scientist in a London back garden takes an X-ray picture of a star with a backyard telescope. What is wrong? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t6/) — Which is true about the Lovell Telescope? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t7/) — Why does the Atacama Desert in Chile host so many telescopes? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t8/) — Galileo saw that Venus has phases like the Moon. What does that tell us he used? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t9/) — James Webb works far from Earth, about 1.5 million km away. Which is closest to that? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t10/) — my teacher said the Rubin Observatory is a telescope on the Moon. true? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/t11/) — If Earth had no air at all, what could ground telescopes do better? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the principal function of an astronomical telescope? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/e2/) — Ascertain the reason for which X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes are required to operate in space. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/e3/) — Identify the discoveries made by Galileo by means of a telescope in 1609-1610. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/27-telescopes-and-light/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the James Webb Space Telescope. — right ✓ · exam

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