Chapter 31.1 Vocab

Question 1

A group of stars that form a pattern to resemble something.

Answer 1

Constellations

Question 2

What collects and amplifies radio waves?

Answer 2

Radio Telescope

Question 3

What is the distance light travels in one year called?

Answer 3

A light-year

Question 4

What separates light into its component wavelengths?

Answer 4

A Spectroscope

Question 5

What is a star formed from a large cloud of gas,ice, and dust called?

Answer 5

Nebula

Question 6

What includes the hot stars from the upper left corner to the cooler stars to the lower right corner?

Answer 6

Main sequence

Question 7

What is it called as the star’s core contracts, the temperature increases and the star evolves.

Answer 7

Giant Star

Question 8

What forms as the core of a giant star no longer supports fusion and the star’s outer layers escape into space?

Answer 8

White dwarf

Question 9

What is an area in space that is so dense that nothing can escape its pull of gravity?

Answer 9

Black hole

Question 10

What is the layer of the sun that emits light into space called?

Answer 10

Photosphere

Question 11

What are dark, cool areas in the photosphere where the sun’s magnetic fields has weakend called?

Answer 11

Sunspots

Question 12

What is a giant explosion in which the collapsing star is 10 billion K and the atomic nuclei in the core split into neutrons and protons called?

Answer 12

Supernova

Question 13

What is the ball of neutrons that are formed when a star explodes called?

Answer 13

Neutron star

Question 14

How did the constellations get their names?

Answer 14

From Characters, tools and animals

Question 15

What is the constellations name of the great hunter?

Answer 15

Orion’s Belt

Question 16

What are the constellations names of Orion’s hunting dogs?

Answer 16

Canis major and canis minor

Question 17

How many basic optical telescopes are there?

Answer 17

Dos not Uno

Question 18

What does a refracting telescope use?

Answer 18

Lenses

Question 19

What does a reflecting telescope use?

Answer 19

Mirrors

Question 20

How are space telescopes more effective than ground telescopes?

Answer 20

The images are not distorted by the atmosphere

Question 21

What are the two space telescopes?

Answer 21

Chandra X-ray and the Spitzer Space Telescope

Question 22

How fast does light travel in space?

Answer 22

300,000 km/s

Question 23

What can a spectroscope determine about a star?

Answer 23

It can detect a stars composition, surface, and whether it is moving closer to us

Question 24

What colors of rays are more frequent closer for stars?

Answer 24

Blue

Question 25

What color of rays are stars that are further away from Earth?

Answer 25

Red

Question 26

Where do stars form from?

Answer 26

A Nebula

Question 27

What do the H and R stand for in the H-R diagram?

Answer 27

The H stands for Elnjar Hertzsprung and the R stands for Henry Russell

Question 28

What is our sun also known as?

Answer 28

A Giant Star

Question 29

What are the interior layers of the sun?

Answer 29

The core, the radiation zone, and the convection zone

Question 30

What is the atmosphere of the Sun composed of?

Answer 30

Chromosphere and the Corona

Question 31

Are sunspots cooler or hotter than the surrounding areas?

Answer 31

Cooler

Question 32

Are sunspots permanent?

Answer 32

NO!