1. What color are the coolest stars?
Orange Blue
Yellow Red White
2. What color are the hottest stars?
Orange Blue
Yellow Red White
3. A dense collapsed star whose electrons and protons smashed together to form neutrons
Nebula Nova
Neutron Star
Protostar Black hole
4. A large cloud of gas and dust in space where stars are born
Nebula Nova
Neutron Star
Protostar Black hole
5. A shrinking, spinning region in space with a central concentration of matter (center of a nebula)
Nebula Nova
Neutron Star
Protostar Black hole
6. A large explosion on a star that makes it brighter
Nebula Nova
Neutron Star
Protostar Black hole
7. An object so dense that even light cannot escape its gravity
Nebula Nova
Neutron Star
Protostar Black hole
8. The Big Bang Theory occurred …
1 bya 4 mya
5 bya
14 mya 14 bya
9. When did cosmic background radiation form….
Shortly before the BBT
Shortly after the BBT
No one knows
10. Energy is generated in a star’s core as _______________ fuses into _____________.
Carbon; hydrogen
Hydrogen; oxygen
Helium; hydrogen
Carbon; hydrogen
Hydrogen; helium
11. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
Spiral Irregular
Elliptical
12. Stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity is called?
Star cluster Earth
Galaxy
Universe
13. Stars appear to move because…
The sky is spinning
Stars are moving
The Earth is moving
The Universe is expanding
14. A light-year is the __________ that light travels in a year.
Speed Distance
time
15. The observed change in the frequency of a wavelength wheneither the source or the observer is moving is known as ….
Shift change Doppler Effect
Absorption spectrum
Apparent magnitude
16. A graph of a star’s luminosity against its temperature is called?
Doppler effect
HR diagram
Parallax graph
17. The first step in the scientific method is ?
Form a hypothesis Ask a question
Gather information/ make observations
Report your results
18. A standard that is used as comparison in an experiment is a(n) ?
Independent variable Dependent variable
Constant/ control hypothesis
19. Data that is obtained by mass, volume, length, and quantity?
Measured data Qualitative data
Observable data
Quantitative data
20. A factor that is manipulated in an experiment?
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Control Theory
21. A factor that responds to changes in other variables
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Control Theory
22. A PATTERN OF METEOROLOGICAL SYMBOLS THAT REPRESENT THE WEATHER AT A PARTICULAR OBSERVING STATION IS A ….?
Weather station station model
Satellite image
weather site
23. MOST DAMAGING TORNADO
F1
F2
F3
F4F5
24. WHICH IS NOT AN AIR MASS?
Maritime polar Continental Polar
Maritime Continental
Continental Tropical
Continental Polar
25. CLOUDS THAT BRING THUNDERSTORMS
Altocumulus nimbostratus
Stratocumulus
cumulonimbus
26. THE TWO MOST ABUNDANT COMPOUNDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE??
CO2 and H2O
NO2 and H2O
H2O and CH4
NH4 and CO2
27. WHAT IS THE MOST ABUNDANT ELEMENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE?
C
H
O He
N
28. TWO MAJOR FACTORS USED TO IDENTIFY CLIMATE ARE…
Longitude and latitude
latitude and temperature
Temperature and precipitation
precipitation and longitude
29. THE FACTOR THAT DETERMINES THE ANGLE AT WHICH THE SUN’S RAYS HIT THE EARTH?
Weather
Sea level
Latitude Wind
30. A TELESCOPE THAT USES A SET OF LENSES
TO GATHER AND FOCUS LIGHT FROM DISTANT
OBJECTS IS A(n)…??
Reflecting refracting
Radio Space
TELESCOPE
32. Because a complete revolution of
Earth takes 365 ¼ days, ___________
was established.
Groundhogs Day
Leap Year
Labor Day
Halloween
Valentine’s
33. Dissolved solids such as rocks
were carried from land into the ocean
which made the early oceans …
Cloudy
Salty
Sandy
34. Particles thrown off the sun’s
corona that can affect Earth’s
magnetic field are….
Coronal mass injection Nuclear fusion
Coronal mass ejection
Prominence Sunspot
35. Sediment closer to the mid-ocean
ridge is
Younger
Rockier
Harder Older
36. Wegner’s hypothesis of
continental drift was confirmed….
Evidence of sea floor spreading
Ice cores
Formation of mountain ranges
Fossils were found on different continents
37. The theory of How continents move is
described by…
Paleomagnetism Sea floor spreading
Plate tectonics
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