Spectral Lines POP QUIZ

Who first observed tiny dark lines in the visible spectrum of a rainbow in 1801?

• William Wollaston

• Joseph Fraunhofer

• Gustav Kirchhoff

• Robert Bunsen

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What are the dark lines in the solar spectrum known as?

• Bunsen lines

• Kirchhoff lines

• Balmer lines

• Fraunhofer lines

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Who made a major advance in 1859 by explaining why dark lines occur in the spectrum?

• Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen

• Niels Bohr

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

What series is known for the spectrum lines visible when heating hydrogen gas?

• The Balmer series

• The Einstein series

• The Newton series

• The Bohr series

What do emission lines refer to?

• Lines of light scattered by atmospheric gas

• Lines of light emitted by glowing hot gas

• Lines of light absorbed by hot gas

• Lines of light emitted by cool gas

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What do absorption lines refer to?

• Tendency of hot gas to emit lines of light

• Tendency of cool atmospheric gas to absorb lines of light

• Tendency of gas to scatter light in all directions

• Tendency of gas to reflect light

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What provides a 'fingerprint' for confirming the presence of chemical elements at a distance?

• The ultraviolet spectrum

• The continuous spectrum

• The emission spectrum

• The absorption spectrum

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What happens when light passes through gas in the atmosphere?

• Some of the light at particular wavelengths is scattered

• It becomes polarized

• It changes direction randomly

• It speeds up

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If an object absorbs all colors it will appear

• white

• black

• invisible

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What happens when an object absorbs electromagnetic waves?

• It bends the object
• It heats the object up
• It causes it to become transparent
• It stays the same

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