Semester 1 Geoscience Final Exam

The Diagram shows the relationship between absolute magnitude and the temperature of a star.

• Cepheid Variable Star

• Parallax Diagram

• Center of Mass

• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

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Unit used to measure distances in space.

• Proxima Centauri

• Magnitude

• Dark Nebulae

• Light-Year

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Stars no bigger than Earth, when these stars are given large amounts of hydrogen gas they explode.

• Stars

• Red Giants

• White Dwarfs

• Blue Stars

Sudden brightening of a star, outer layer of a star is ejected at a high speed.

• Nebulae

• Red Sars

• Blue Stars

• Nova

Stars that make up 90% of stars.

• Main Sequence Stars

• White Dwarfs

• Binary Stars

• Red Super Giants

1. An observed change in the frequency of a wave reveals if an object is moving closer or farther away from Earth. 

• Doppler Effect

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation Energy

• Gravitational Contraction

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1. Most galaxies are moving away from us

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation Energy

• Gravitational Contraction

• Red Shift

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A collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity.

• Nebula

• Spiral Arms

• Galaxies

• Clusters

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Faint radio energy signal discovered by scientists, coming from every direction.

• Doppler Effect

• Hubble's Law

• Gravitational Contraction

• Cosmic Background Radiation Energy

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1. The theory that the universe originated in a huge explosion that released all matter and energy 13.7 billion years ago. 

• Big Bang Theory

• Hubble's Law

• Cosmic Background Radiation Energy

• Gravitational Contraction

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