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1
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What are most of the 1000s of points of light called

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Stars

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True/False stars are not capable of making their own light

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False

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What is 1 difference that stars differ from planets

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Planets do not make their own light

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How did planets get light

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They reflect light from stars

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What are the 2 classifications of heavenly bodies

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Light bodies and dark bodies

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What are light bodies?

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Objects that make their own light

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What are 2 examples of light bodies?

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Stars and some nebula

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What are dark bodies?

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Objects that do not make their own light

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What are 4 examples of dark bodies

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Planets, moons, comets, asteroids

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Matter is made up of what?

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Atoms

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What 3 things are atoms made up of?

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Protons neutrons electrons 

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Nuclear is made up of what 2 things(what makes up the nucleus)

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Protons and neutrons

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13
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The electrons are located where

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Outside of the nucleus

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14
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What is nuclei fission

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When the nucleus of an atom is split

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An element with what what 2 characteristics is used?Why?

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-element with large nucleus that is either uranium and plutonium
-gives a large target

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What is shot at the nucleus

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A neutron

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How does this affect the nucleus

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Makes it very unstable so that it breaks apart

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18
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What does the nucleus break apart into

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2 smaller elements

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19
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What does this produce

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A lot of energy and 3 more neutrons

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20
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What is established?

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A chain reaction

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21
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This reaction happens until when?

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All of the nuclei of uranium is broken down into 2 smaller elements

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This process takes place in what 2things

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Atomic bombs and nuclear reactors

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What is nuclear fusion?

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When 4 small nucleated atoms are combined together

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24
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The temperature must be how many degrees

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Over 1 million degrees Celsius/SUPER HOT!!!!

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25
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What type of atoms must be fused together?

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4 hydrogen atoms

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26
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What do they form when combined

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Helium

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27
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When this happens some of the mass is converted over to what

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Energy

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How much mass is converted which creates how much energy

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A small mass is converted which creates a lot of energy

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What did Einstein summarise in his famous equation?

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The process of mass being converted over to energy

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What is this equation?

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E = MC squared

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31
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What does it stand for?

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E(energy)=m(matter)times c(the speed of light)Squared

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32
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What is the basic formula for fusion

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4H+energy arrow He+ENERGY

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33
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The sun is continually doing what?

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Converting hydrogen over to helium

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34
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Thus the sun is losing what by this process

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Mass

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35
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The massive amount of energy that has been converted from a small amount of matter by nuclear fusion is in what form?

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The form of electromagnetic radiation

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36
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What is electromagnetic radiation?

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Energy that moves in a wave

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37
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What are crests?

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The highest and lowest points of the wave

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38
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What is the distance of the wave from crest to crest called?

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Wavelength of wave

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39
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Are the different wavelengths in blocks?

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No

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40
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How are the wavelengths different?

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By slight increments

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41
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What kind of spectrum is electromagnetic radiation

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A continuous spectrum

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42
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What is the portion of electro magnetic radiation that we can see called ?

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Visible light

43
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Why is the other portion of electro magnetic radiation not visible to us?

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It has a wavelength that our eyes cannot detect

44
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The different colors of visible that we see are because of what ?

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Different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

45
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What is the spectrum

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The rainbow!!🌈🌈

46
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List the spectrum from longest to shortest wavelength of visible light

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Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet

47
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Which is greater the continuum of light that we cannot see or the light which we can see?

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continuum of light that we cannot see

48
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the Order of light from longest wavelength to shortest wavelength is called what?

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The electro magnetic radiation spectrum

49
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List The electro magnetic radiation spectrum

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Radio wave microwaves radar infrared visible light ultraviolet x rays gamma rays

50
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Which are the most dangerous and why out of The electro magnetic radiation spectrum

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Ultra violet X rays gamma rays
Cause cancer tans high energy due to higher frequency and shorter wavelengths

51
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What is frequency

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of waves pasta point/second

52
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What happens to the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation as wave frequency increases 

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The wavelength of electromagnetic radiation get shorter 

53
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Between what two kinds of electromagnetic radiation is visible light located 

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Infrared and ultraviolet 

54
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When all the colors of light are combined what happens 

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U get White light

55
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What is a continuous spectrum

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When one colour fades into the next color

56
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What is another word for sunlight?

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White light

57
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When objects become they do what

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Gloww

58
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Metal in fire glows what colour

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Red

59
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Each element only emits what?

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Certain types wavelengths

60
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What are astronomers able to do with the light emitted from stars

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Compare the known bright line spectrum from elements with the light emitted from stars

61
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What is amothe4 name for the bright line spectrum of each element

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Atomic emission spectrum

62
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The e
Electrons in an atom are outside the nucleus In what?

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In specific energy levels

63
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When the atom gets energ what happens?what form?

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It jumps an energy level
Electro magnetic radiation

64
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What is their energy released called

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Photon

65
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Yay do photons have/ do3

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Specific amount of energy
Moves as a wave has mass has a certain length

66
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Photons. Are what u see as what

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Light

67
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I’d u had a quick emugjy eye what would you see?

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Photons coming out of lihjys

68
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A light bulbs works by turning hat

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Electric exciting a tungsten filament

69
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What do the electrons in the filament do

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Jump up and down energy levels and produce photon

70
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The photons strike ur eye how

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In fast bursts and u see light

71
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Light moves in what kind of path?

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A straight path

72
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Light moves at different speeds through different what?

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Media

73
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What are media?

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Anything that light can travel through such as clear plastic,glass, air, water

74
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When light enters a medium what does it do

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When light enters a medium it changes speed

75
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What does this cause the light to do

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CHange direction

76
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Whaat is this change in direction called?

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Refraction

77
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What angle is dependent on the angle that the the light hits the surface of the lens?

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The angle at which a light wave changed direction in a lens

78
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Which angles undergoes no refraction and heavy refraction ?

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A 90 degree strike
40 degree strike

79
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WHat does a convex lens do?

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Causes light rays to converge at a focal point

80
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What do concave lenses cause

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Causes light rays to diverge

81
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An image is made by what lens Where is it located?

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By the objective lens in front of the eyepiece

82
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What does the eyepiece then do?

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Then magnifies the image from the objective lens

83
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Thus the eyepiece is the lens that does what to the image?

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Makes image more magnified

84
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What does the objective lens only do despite how large or small it is?

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Only gathers light

85
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The more light has one to work with, the more what

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Things once can see

86
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From the Hr diagram, we know what about the hot stars

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The hotter the star the brighter it is

87
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What is magnitude

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The measure of a stars brightness

88
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What was Hipparchus scale for magnitude and what changes have astronomers made

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Hipparchus scale used to be 6 levels of brightness but now there is 0 and negatives added on

89
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What is apparent magnitude and what is it based on?

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How bright the star looks to us
The stars distance from us and the amount of light it emits

90
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What is absolute magnitude?

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How much light is actually produced

91
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What is radial motion?

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Radial motion is the stars motion directly toward or away from us

92
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Are we able to see how close a star is from us by radial motion?

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93
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What effect gives of red and blue shift to be able to see how far away a starvis from us?

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Doppler effect

94
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Name the star sizes from largest to smallest

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Hypergiant supergiant giant medium dwarf

95
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What is the celestial equator?

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The celestial equator is an imaginary line projected into space

96
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What is Declan nation?

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Declamation is like ladder to do an object is a mesh shirt how north or south of the celestial equator

97
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What is recension like?

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Longitude

98
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What are three differences between right ascension and longitude

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Longitude is measured in degrees well, right ascension is measured in hours
 There is no prime meridian for right ascension, but a prime our circle

99
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What are ancient stars?

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Ancient stars are groups of stars that were seen as forms that were part of myths 

100
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What are modern stars?

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Areas in the sky that are bamboo straight lines

101
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What is the designation for naming stars that is based on the name of the constellation itself 

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Bayer designation

102
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Name the Greek letter in alphabetical order

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Alpha, beta, gamma, delta epsilon, Zeta eta 

103
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What do convex and concave mirrors do to light

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A convex mirror reflects light off of the outer surface and bulges out towards the viewer. a concave mirror reflects light off of the inner surface of the mirror and bulges away from the viewer

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