Mid Term Exam - 2016

Question 0

What is the giant collection or cloud of space dust?

Answer 0

Nebula

Question 1

What is the part of the atom that orbits the nucleus?

Answer 1

Electron

Question 2

Where are most asteroids located?

Answer 2

Asteroid Belt

Question 3

What is the distance between two peaks of waves?

Answer 3

Wavelengths

Question 4

What is produced when visible light passes through a cloud of gas?

Answer 4

Absorption line spectrum

Question 5

What is the process for how our solar system is formed from a cloud of gas and dust?

Answer 5

Accretion

Question 6

What is the range of light waves that expand from the wavelength of radio waves to gamma rays?

Answer 6

Electromagnetic spectrum

Question 7

What is the law that says there should be a planet between Mars and Jupiter?

Answer 7

Bode Law

Question 8

What is the range of light waves that we can see - - ROYGBIV?

Answer 8

Visible light

Question 9

What is the bending of light as it passes through and object?

Answer 9

Refraction

Question 10

What is the change of a wave length due to the movement of an object?

Answer 10

Doppler Effect

Question 11

What is the number of times larger an object appears through a telescope compared to the naked eye?

Answer 11

Magnification

Question 12

What is the term for when the build up of sound waves reach a person?

Answer 12

sonic boom

Question 13

What is the measure of the clarity of images?

Answer 13

Resolution

Question 14

What is it when man made light reduced the visibility of the stars?

Answer 14

Light Pollution

Question 15

What is the spectrum that is produced when a gas is heated?

Answer 15

Emission Line Spectrum

Question 16

What is the color of the coolest stars?

Answer 16

Red

Question 17

What is the height of waves - - how tall the waves are?

Answer 17

Amplitude

Question 18

What is the color of the hottest stars?

Answer 18

Blue

Question 19

What are models of light?

Answer 19

Photon

Wave

Question 20

As a boat moves faster - what will happen to the waves in front of the boat?

Answer 20

They will begin to compress

Question 21

Why is seeing stars in the city difficult?

Answer 21

Light pollution

Question 22

Why do stars twinkle?

Answer 22

Turbulence of the atmosphere

Question 23

What is the distance between the lens and the focal point called?

Answer 23

focal length

Question 24

What can a telescopes with a long focal length increase?

Answer 24

magnification

Question 25

What are some reasons we use a telescope?

Answer 25

resolve magnify brighten

Question 26

What is the term for a telescope that has two lens - an eyepiece and objective?

Answer 26

Refraction telescope

Question 27

What happens when things get hotter?

Answer 27

The wavelength shortens | The color changes

Question 28

When light undergoes the doppler Effect - - the light moving toward you has what color shift?

Answer 28

Red

Question 29

What happens to opposite charges?

Answer 29

They attract

Question 30

What happens to like charges?

Answer 30

They repel

Question 31

What can create a spectra?

Answer 31

Prism CD's Raindrops

Question 32

What is one of the reasons that the Hubble space telescope better than the ones on earth?

Answer 32

The light does not pass through the atmosphere

Question 33

What are the only two parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that makes it to the earth's surface?

Answer 33

visible light and radio waves

Question 34

When a boat moves faster than the waves - - What is produced?

Answer 34

Waves that overlap ad form a "V" shape

Question 35

What is the term for when high mass stars die violently by blowing themselves apart in these explosions?

Answer 35

Supernova

Question 36

What is the term for a series of different types of fusion reactions in high mass stars?

Answer 36

Luminous supergiants

Question 37

What is the term for a relatively gentle explosion of hydrogen gas on the surface of a white dwarf?

Answer 37

Nova

Question 38

What is the term for the burned out core of a low mass star becomes?

Answer 38

White dwarf

Question 39

What is the term for when low mass stars explode into these before expanding into a planetary nebula?

Answer 39

Red Supergiants

Question 40

What is the term for the giant collection or cloud of space dust?

Answer 40

Nebula

Question 41

What is the term for when massive stars explode their remnants cores become highly compressed clumps of neutrons?

Answer 41

Neutron Star

Question 42

What is the term for a spinning neutron star?

Answer 42

Pulsar

Question 43

What is the term for what may have formed the early universe?

Answer 43

Primordial Black Hole

Question 44

What is the term for the shell or edge of a black hole where light can no longer escape?

Answer 44

Event Horizon

Question 45

How is the mass of an object moving at the speed of light affected?

Answer 45

It becomes infinitely massive

Question 46

How does moving at the speed of light affect time?

Answer 46

Slows it down

Question 47

What did radio waves emitted by pulsars lead scientists to believe at one time?

Answer 47

The radio signals were from aliens

Question 48

The remnants (remains) of a supernova explosion will last how long?

Answer 48

Millions of years

Question 49

The balance between the force of gravity pushing in on a star and the force of fusion pushing out on a star keeps the star stable - - what is this called?

Answer 49

Hydrostatic equilibrium

Question 50

How does mass affect space time?

Answer 50

It warps pace time resulting in the bending of light

Question 51

The properties of a black hole are all of the following?

Answer 51

Mass Angular momentum Electrical charge

Question 52

We assume that there is a black hole in the center of our universe for all of the following reasons?

Answer 52

The speed of gases moving near the center | We can see the black hole in our galaxy