Space Chapter 4 (Stars, Galaxies, And The Universe) Question Preview (ID: 29409)


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What is the brightness of a star as it appears from Earth?
a) Apparent Brightness
b) Absolute Brightness
c) Shimmering
d) Low Brightness

What is the brightness of a star if it were a standard distance from Earth?
a) Absolute brightness
b) Apparent Brightness
c) Low Brightness
d) Shimmering

What is the apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from different places?
a) Parallax
b) Light Years
c) Neutron Star
d) Telescope

What is a refracting telescope?
a) A telescope that uses convex lenses to collect and focus light.
b) A telescope uses a mirror instead of a large lens.
c) A telescope that sees stars
d) A telescope that sees planets

What is a reflecting telescope?
a) A telescope uses a mirror instead of a large lens.
b) A telescope that uses convex lenses to collect and focus light.
c) A telescope that sees stars
d) A telescope that sees planets

When will stars form a black hole?
a) Only when the mass is 10 times the mass of the sun
b) Only when the mass is smaller than the sun
c) Only when the mass is larger than the sun
d) Only when the mass is as large as the sun

A supergiant moves to a supernova, then it forms what?
a) Neutron Star or Black Hole
b) Blue Supergiant
c) White Dwarf
d) Red Dwarf

What galaxy is the sun apart of?
a) Spiral
b) Elliptical
c) Sphere
d) Milky Way

Two stars can create what?
a) Star System
b) Light Year
c) Supernova
d) Light

Stars with less mass will
a) last longer than stars with more mass.
b) last less than stars with more mass.
c) last the same amount as stars with more mass.
d) there is no change.

Compared to visible light waves what type of wavelengths do radio waves have?
a) longer wavelengths
b) shorter wavelengths
c) there is no different
d) similar wavelengths

According to scientists the big bang happened how long ago?
a) 13.7 billion years
b) 20 billion years
c) 50 billion years
d) 100 billion years

What states that the farther away a galaxy is the faster it is moving away from us?
a) Hubble's Law
b) Armstrong's Law
c) Nesvik's Law
d) Scientists Law

When a high mass stars dies it goes to what?
a) Supernova
b) White Dwarf
c) Red Dwarf
d) Neutron Star

When nuclear fusion stars what is born?
a) Star
b) Planet
c) Galaxy
d) Atmosphere

The size, brightness, and temperature are used to classify what?
a) Stars
b) Planets
c) Galaxies
d) Atmospheres

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram shows that main sequence stars
a) increase in brightness as they increase in tempreature
b) decrease in brightness as they increase in temperature
c) decrease in brightness as they decrease in temperature
d) are mostly hot and dim

What's a major difference between elliptical and spiral galaxies?
a) Elliptical galaxies have almost no gas or dust between the stars
b) Elliptical galaxies vary more in shape than spiral galaxies
c) Spiral galaxies have almost no gas or dust between the stars
d) Spiral galaxies contain only old stars

Stars that are dimmer at regular intervals can be identified as what?
a) Eclipsing binary stars
b) Neutron stars
c) White Dwarf Stars
d) Red Dwarf Stars

When a star moves very slightly back and forth what could be near it?
a) A planet
b) A galaxy
c) Another star
d) A sun

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