Modern Astronomy Review

A refracting telescope uses: 

• Lens
• Mirrors
• Lens and mirrors
• Transmitters

What are the two types of optical telescopes? 

• Reflecting/Rarefaction
• Compressional/Longitudinal
• Reflecting/Longitudinal
• Refracting/Reflecting

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The telescopes that receive long wavelengths from space. 

• Space probes
• Space satellites
• Space landers
• Radio 

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The best thing about radio telescopes is: 

• They can receive data any time of day and in any weather
• They can receive very high frequency signals
• They receive gamma rays
• They can intercept signals between planets 

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Spectrascopes collect light and then:

• Combine them into white light
• Combine them into black light
• Separate them into bands of colors
• Seperate them into white light

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Spectrascopes use bands of color to identify: 

• Mass of star
• The elements in the star
• The weight of the star
• The sounds the star makes

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An object that orbits another object in space is a: 

• Space probe
• Space lander
• Space invader
• Satellite

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The space instrument that travels beyond our solar system are:

• Space probes
• Satellites
• Observatories
• Telescopes

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Unmanned space probes are used to explore outer space because: 

• They are inexpensive
• They are extremely large
• It's too dangerous for humans
• It's too hard to see things far away

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Which of the following is NOT a discovery made by the use of a telescope?

• craters on the moon

• moons of Jupiter

• life on other planets

• evidence that planets orbit the sun