Online reading assignment question: favorite terrestrial/jovian planet tags

Astronomy 210, Fall Semester 2009
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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Wordle.net tag cloud for "favorite terrestrial planet" and "favorite jovian planet" generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1324952/Untitled).

Students have a weekly online reading assignment (hosted by SurveyMonkey.com), where they answer questions based on reading their textbook, material covered in previous lectures, opinion questions, and/or asking (anonymous) questions or making (anonymous) comments. Full credit is given for completing the online reading assignment before next week's lecture, regardless if whether their answers are correct/incorrect. Selected results/questions/comments are addressed by the instructor at the start of the following lecture.

(The following question was asked prior to lectures on planetary formation and planets.)

Name your favorite terrestrial planet in our solar system. (Graded for completion.)

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160

Mars. Mmmmm.. Mars bars...
Earth!!
earth
Earth
Earth
mars
Earth
earth
Earth
Mars
Earth
Earth
mars
Mars
Mars
earth dummy!
Earth
Mars
earth
Mars
mercury
saturn
Mars
ok
mars
mars
earth
Earth, cuz I mean come on, we live here
mars
Venus
Earth
Ceres dwarf planet.
earth
Venus
venus
Mars
Mars
Earth
Earth
Plu- oh, right... well I GUESS it'd be Earth.
Mars because of Total Recall
Mars
The Earth
earth
Venus
Earth
Earth? haha
Mars
earth
Earth. They don't have VitaminWater on other planets. VitaminWater. Try it.
mars
mars
Earth
earth
Earth!
Earth
Mars
Mercury
Mars
All of them :D
Venus
Mars
venus
I don't know
Earth

Name your favorite jovian planet in our solar system. (Graded for completion.)

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160

Plut--err.. Neptune.
Neptune!
jupiter
Jupiter
Mars
mars
Uranus
neptune
Saturn
Saturn
Saturn
Jupiter
jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
neptune
Uranus
Saturn
neptune
Jupiter
jupiter
uranus
Jupiter
yea
neptune
uranus
neptune
Neptune, gotta love nautical things
saturn
Mars
Neptune
Neptune
saturn
Saturn
mars
Jupiter
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Jupiter. Because jovian is a way cooler race name than Earthling...
Uranus because the name is funny
Saturn
Jupiter
jupiter
thats hard...um Saturn
Jupiter
Jupiter!
uranus
saturn
Neptune. represent.
jupiter
jupiter
Neptune i guess. its jovian right
jupiter
Jupiter
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
Allof them:D
Neptune
Venus
uranus
neptune
Saturn