Online reading assignment question: Venus, Mars tags

Astronomy 210, fall semester 2010
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

101201-venuswordle
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Wordle.net tag cloud for "Venus" generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2817770/Untitled).


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Wordle.net tag cloud for "Mars" generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2817749/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 the terrestrial planets.)

Write down five words that describe or are associated with "Venus." Keep word phrases together with no spaces between them (e.g., "veryhot"). (Graded for completion.)

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

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160

large hot terrestrial dense women
razors, planet, veryhot, goddess, veryhot
circlularorbit rocky noweather beauty craters
goddess, female, rocky, volcanoes, planet
goddess razors planet sisterplanet dry
cloudy, dry desert, craters, volcanoes, hot
goddess greenhouse superhot
plant, terrestrial, active, big, guys
denseatmosphere, sisterplanet, 224.7earthdays, brightinsky, visiblewithouttelescope
womenarefrom menarefromMars
razors, hot, faraway, rocky, big
greenhouse, hot, atmosphere, goddess
hot, acid, rain, melt, atmosphere
hot, terrestrial, sulfuricacidclouds, denseatmosphere, Romangoddess
yellow, medium, secondplanet
blue cool outerspace whoknows
redspot, giant, gasgiant, storms, hurricanes
women yellow goddess love
greenhouse, secondplanet, denseatmosphere, meltslead, carbondioxide
veryhot, faraway,
girls planet goddess flytrap space
coronae, greenhouse, cloudy, meltslead, closertosun
acidrain, secondplanet, CO2, nomoons, morningstar
planet hot Serena tennis orbit
Earthsize, acidrain, volcanoes, fewcraters, platetectonics
smaller, morningstar, close, rocky, veryhot
hot, humid, acid, greenhouse, pressure
secondplanet, Earthsize, volcanoes, lavaflows, closertosun
razors, girls, eveningstar, solar system, beauty
big, toomanybeans, gassy
cloudy, volcanoes, hot, Earthsize, goddess
Earthsize, bright, terrestrial, inferiorplanet, goddess
planet, terrestrial, inferiorplanet, sisterplanet, Earthlike
cloudy, bright, volcanoes, lavaflows, craters
dark, cold, nolife, nowater, rocky
planet, hot, solar, system, world
planet razors space pretty awesome
bright veryhot morningstar eveningstar sulfur
secondplanet, brightinsky, denseatmosphere, desert, goddess
feminine planet hot notEarth
cloudy, drydesert, volcanoes, craters, basaltic lowlands
deadlygases sisterplanet hot uninhabitable bright
secondplanet atmosphere hot cloudy uninhabitable
closertosun hot fire doom die sad
goddess mythology planet car heavens
Venus veryhot terrestrial
hot superhot ohmysohot
veryhot, goddess love, womenarefrom, terrestrial, kindabig
hot, greenish, gasatmosphere, sisterplanet, Earthsize
razors,
hot, goddess love, terrestrial, AphroditeTerra, volcanoes
Earthsize Libra veryhot
big warm volcanoes red craters
Earthsize unbreathableair inhabitable cloudy craters
hot dead inactive goddess
goddess, love, beauty, borninaseashell, screwedParisover, womenarefrom
veryhot cloudy hot desert CO2 coronae
women planet closertosun inhabitable
Remus, Demus, fetus, Metus, Peanuts
razors planet rocky hot
girls razors goddess love
secondplanet sister bright love beauty
hot innerorbit SailorMoon
razors, tennis, planet, shaving, hot

Write down five words that describe or are associated with "Mars." Keep word phrases together with no spaces between them (e.g., "redplanet"). (Graded for completion.)

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

Student responses
Sections 70158, 70160

terrestrial small men chocolate red
red, candybar, martians, rovers, MissiontoMars
small red water? Phobos Deimos craters
god, martians, red, male, war
red god planet aliens polaricecaps
thinatmosphere, littlewater, craters, volcanoes, deserts
red lamerversionofEarth
women, planet, big, active, terrestrial
fourthplanet, thinatmosphere, craters, volcanoes, valleys
men aliens red martians candybar
aliens, candybar, far, cold, red
red, god, rovers, ice, fourthplanet
cold, red, god, Phobos Deimos, dirt
ironoxide, terrestrial, thinatmosphere, Phobos Deimos, rovers
candybar, fourthplanet
red hot solarsystem cool
dust, ice, terrestrial, mudvolcanoes, life?
men red god
thinatmosphere, volcanoes, red, water?, polaricecaps
red, volcanoes, faraway, water?
pyscho red valleys deserts craters
cold small, permafrost, Phobos Deimos, polaricecaps, volcanoes
red, butterscotchcolor, VallesMarineris, thinatmosphere, Phobos Deimos
candybar chocolate nexthome?
polaricecaps, thinatmosphere, red, stormy, nexthome?
red, fourthplanet, god, volcanoes, deserts
cool, arid, craters, red, small
red, fourthplanet, small volcanoes, outflowchannels
boys, candybar, solarsystem, fourthplanet, red
martians, face, red
polaricecaps, cold, candybar, waterflow, Phobos Deimos
ironoxide, god, red, terrestrial, OlympusMons
red, BorealisBasin, thinatmosphere, ironoxide, terrestrial
weather, complexgeology, craters, volcanoes, water
life?, dark, cold, rocky, red
Mars, Venus, Earth, Saturn, Uranus
water? planet life? space cool
red canyon dust polaricecaps faraway
MarvintheMartian, ice water?, fourthplanet, volcanoes, candybar
hot planet dry nolife
thinatmosphere, polaricecaps, OlympusMons, craters, Phobos Deimos
face craters OlympusMons Phobos Deimos
fourthplanet red Phobos Deimos war
aliens cold scarymovies martians
god war red planet anger
red
red aliens close candybar water?
red, god war, menarefrom, volcanoes, deserts
volcanoes, polaricecaps, red dust, similargravityanddaylengthtoEarth
candybar, movies, big, red, rovers
red, cool, face, god, ironoxide
red rovers martians craters ice
small cool inactive orange yeah
water? nonbreathableair thinatmosphere volcanoes longvalleys
rusty dead war cold red
menarefrom, red, stormy, cold, permafrost
thinatmosphere permafrost volcanoes outflowchannels valleys
war god red onemoon exoplanet habitable
candybar, planet, rotation, revolution, solarsystem
mountians red dust
red thinatmoshpere craters
fourthplanet red war martians planet
red dust life?
red, planet, life?, warm, stormy

Previous posts:

• Online reading assignment question: Venus, Mars tags (Astrolrner@CAE readers, August 2010).
• Online reading assignment question: Venus, Mars tags (Cuesta College students, Fall semester 2009).