Exploring Space

Put the visible light colors in order from longest wavelength to shortest wavelength

• Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, Red
• Red, Yellow, Green, Orange, Violet, Blue, Indigo
• Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Which has the SHORTEST wavelength and, therefore, the highest frequency/most energy

• Radio waves
• Ultraviolet Rays
• Gamma Rays
• X-rays

A wave with a large wavelength will have a ______ frequency and _____ energy

• high, low
• high, high
• low, high
• low, low

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

A device that detects radio waves from objects in space is called a(n)

• radio telescope.
• reflecting telescope.
• refracting telescope.
• electromagnetic telescope.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

People in the past looked to the sky and used ___________ to tell time.

• stars

• Sun

• planets

• constellations

All light waves travel at ___________ km/s.

• 100,000

• 200,000

• 300,000

• 400,000

Which is not a reason that Space-based telescopes are better than Earth-based telescopes.

• no atmospheric gases

• darker sky

• lower risk of being damaged

The __________ is an optical telescope which orbits the Earth.

• Spitzer

• James Webb

• Palomar

• Hubble

Cooler stars emit what kind of waves?

• radio and gamma

• infrared and x-ray

• ultraviolet and visible

• radio and infrared

If a star is being observed from Earth and it's light has shifted towards the blue side of the electromagnetic spectrum it would be...

• Moving towards the Earth
• Moving away from the Earth
• This is a trick question that cannot be answered
• It isn't a star, it is a very large blueberry.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2