Astronomy Test Review

________________ developed three laws of planetary motion.

• Tycho Brahe

• Aristotle

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

When an object making noise is moving towards you it will sound...

• Lower in pitch

• always the same

• Higher in pitch

• alternating from higher to lower

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An object moving away from you will appear what color?

• Pink

• Blue

• Red

• Orange

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Doppler Effect is when there is an increase or decrease in the frequency of sound and _____ waves causing there to be a higher or lower pitch or a certain color projected.

• Light

• microwaves

• gamma

• visible

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

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Kepler's 1st Law of Planetary Motion states that each planet's path around the Sun is in the shape of a/an:

• Ellipse

• Ecliptic

• Circle

• Rhombus

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What type of shift is happening with the observed spectra?

• No Shift

• Blue Shift

• Backwards Shift

• Red Shift

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

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Which one of the following is NOT a method of exoplanet detection?

• Wobble Effect

• Direct Imaging

• Absorption Lines

• Transit - Shadows

Gravity and ___________ are the two factors that allow stars to move through different stages of life.

• Inertia

• Nuclear Fusion

• Momentum

• Velocity

Kepler’s third law of planetary motion implied that __________ holds the planets near the Sun.

• Gravity

• The Force

• Magnets

• Inertia

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

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Our sun will end its life as a ___________?

• White Dwarf

• Neutron Star

• Black Hole

• Supernova

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