Review Questions

Question 1

Energy increases as you go up or down the rainbow?

Answer 1

Energy increases as you head towards violet

Question 2

Stuff to know

Answer 2

Bohr Atom structure, kirchoff’s Laws, energy related to color, absorption spectrum, hw questions

Question 3

What kind of spectrum is the sun’s spectrum? (Spectrum that reaches earth)

Answer 3

Absorption Spectrum

Question 4

All objects that have a temp give off light. What type of light?

Answer 4

Infrared light, some give visible light as well

Question 5

Hotter object give off higher or lower frequency colors?

Answer 5

lower frequency colors

Question 6

Black Body radiation gives us the BLANK of stars

Answer 6

Color, hotter stars have higher frequencies

Question 7

Is the star moving towards me or away based on the emission spectrum?

Answer 7

Shifted blue if towards, compressed waves, shifted red if moving away stretched waves

Question 8

What waves can’t we see from earth?

Answer 8

gamma, x-ray, UV, infrared

Question 9

Only waves to observe from earth

Answer 9

Radio waves and visible waves

Question 10

Most important part of telescope

Answer 10

Objective Lens. More light = more info

Question 11

Refraction telescope material

Answer 11

Glass

Question 12

Reflection telescope material

Answer 12

Mirrors

Question 13

3 Powers of Telescope

Answer 13

Magnification, Light-gathering power, resolving power

Question 14

Reciprocal powers of a telescope

Answer 14

Resolving power impacts light-gathering and vice versa

Question 15

Telescope is more powerful by how much

Answer 15

radius squared / radius squared

Question 16

Be able to name two observatories for telescopes, probs don’t need specifics

Question 17

Pros and Cons of Radio Telescopes

Question 18

Name two radio telescopes

Question 19

Interferometry

Answer 19

Connecting radio telescopes to make big dish

Question 20

Sun spectrums

Answer 20

continuous spectrum - emission spectrum - absorption spectrum

Question 21

How can we tell what a star is made of?

Answer 21

spectroscopy, absorbtion and emission spectrums

Question 22

What is the most predominant gas in earth’s atmosphere

Answer 22

Nitrogen

Question 23

Density of earth

Answer 23

5.52 g/cm^3

Question 24

Analyzing light from a star we get

Answer 24

composition, velocity, temp

Question 25

Outer core is

Answer 25

Liquid

Question 26

Layers of Earth

Answer 26

Crust, mantle, outer core (liquid core), inner core (solid core)

Question 27

Layers of Atmosphere

Answer 27

troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere

Question 28

Why does temp rise or fall in some atmospheric levels?

Answer 28

Absorption of UV rays mainly, know specifics

Question 29

Front and back of the moon are same or different thicknesses?

Answer 29

Different

Question 30

Artemis missions will not be on exam

Question 31

Know formation of moon theories in great detail