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Online reading assignment question: terrestrial planet tags

Astronomy 210 Reading Assignment 12, Spring Semester 2010
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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Wordle.net tag cloud for "favorite terrestrial planet" generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, spring semester 2010 (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1932120/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.

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

[Responses have been edited to consolidate related common subjects.]

Student responses
Sections 30674, 30676
Mars
saturn
earth
earth!
pluto
Saturn
venus
EARTH
Earth
Neptune
zertus
Earth
Earth
Earth
Venus
Pluto
Mars
Earth
earth duh
Saturn
mars
Pluto
Pluto
mars
Earth
Earth
Jupiter
no idea...
Earth
earth
Earth
jupiter
Earth
jupiter
Mars
Mercury
pluto
neptune
Mars
jupiter
Uranus
Besides earth? Mars I suppose.
Saturn
Mars
Pluto.
Mars
earth
neptune
mercury
saturn
Uranus ;)
Earth
Mars
Neptune
earth
earth
jupiter?
earth
Mars
Earth
Earth
saturn
Mars
earth?
uranus
I like Earth, I want to stay here.
Earth
Earth
I don't know...
Mercury
Mars
pluto
Venus
EE-Arth
Earth
Earth
Earth
Mercury
EARTH!
Earth
Saturn
Saturn
Venus
Earth
I'm gonna go with Earth
neptune
Earth
Saturn

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