Online reading assignment question: Milky Way tags

Astronomy 210 Reading Assignment 10, Spring Semester 2011
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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Wordle.net tag cloud for "Milky Way," generated by responses from Astronomy 210 students at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3388684/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.

Write down five words that describe or are associated with the "Milky Way." Keep word phrases together with no spaces between them (e.g., "forexample, likethis, nospaces"). (Graded for completion.)

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

Student responses
Sections 30674, 30676

confused
stars galaxy dust milk chocolate
big, mystical, mysterious, beautiful, knowing
bandofstars
stars planets blackholes supernovae comets
galaxy, bandofstars, twin, supermassiveblackhole, spiralgalaxy
caramel, nougat, soft, delicious, chocolate
luminous, spiral, massive, starclusters, nuclearbulge
stars, galaxy, starsystem, bandofstars, candybar
confused
milkycircle milkyroad MilkyWay starsystem
planets galaxy nova explosions large
food, candybar, stars, mystical
disk, stellarhalo, globularclusters, nuclearbulge, darkhalo
spiralarms, galaxy, spiral, home, stars, candybar
gas dust dark only unique
big milky Earth oursystem
galaxy stars dust gas infrared
spiral galaxy white light celestialsphere dust gas
spiralgalaxy, glowingcenter, stars, planets, cloudsofgas
spiral mammary arms old habitable stars galaxy
stars, milky, ring, massive, foggy
chocolate nougat caramel sweet caramel
whitelight, gas, dust, spiral, loosearms
galaxy, starclusters, nebulae, stars, candybar
galaxy starsystem stars bandofstars clusters
confused
candybar galaxy delicious chocolate hazy
galaxy kuklos, milkycircle, vialactea, milkyroad, milk
galaxy, Sagittarius, instabilitystrip, openclusters, spiralarms
spiral supermassiveblackhole LocalGroup invisible flatdisk
rich caramel chocolate fluffy goodness
candybar, galaxy, space, big, stars
candybar, stars, pretty, smooth, caramel
Cepheids, instabilitystrip, periodluminosityrelation, propermotions, galaxy kuklos
chocolate, candybar, yummy, delicious, space
mainsequence, eightplanets, mediummassstar, life, demotesplanets
galaxy home candybar swirl spiral
galaxy, stars, blackholes, nebulae, planets
chocolate yummy
galaxy, starcluster, universe, home, ouruniverse
stars clusters candybar bright galaxy
large, planets, gas,
galaxy, big, stars, candybar, cool
galaxy, home, stellar, spiral, chocolate
candybar, chocolate, galaxy, solarsystem, stars
confused
chocolate, smooth creamy, dairy, rocky, beautiful
Twix, Starburst, Snickers, MilkDuds, Butterfinger
ourcollectionofstars Earth candybar idk
pretty, spiral, home, old, large
BigDipper northstar Orion binary stars halo
confused
elliptical spiral dwarfs starbursts barred
candybar, stars, delicious, faraway, cool
spiral, LocalGroup, clusters, solarsystem, stars
candybar, swirl, spiralarms, nuclearbulge, galacticplane
stars swirl caramel nougat chocolate
candybar
universe planets galaxy stars suns
candybar stars galaxy light group
galaxy Earth solarsystem spiral stars