Distances in Space / Space and the Electromagnetic Spectrum

What are objects, such as planets, moons, and stars, that are located in space?

• Celestial Objects

• Light Energy

• Speed of Light

• Electromagnetic Radiation

What is a measure of how far apart two objects are?

• Distance

• Light-Year

• Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

What is a form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space; part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

• Light Energy

• Speed of Light

• Electromagnetic Radiation

• Gamma Rays

What is a unit of length equal to the distance that light travels through space in one year?

• Light-Year

• Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Infrared Waves

What is how fast light travels (i.e., 300,000 km/s); the maximum speed at which all matter and information in the universe can travel?

• Speed of Light

• Electromagnetic Radiation

• Gamma Rays

• Light Waves

What is electromagnetic radiation found all over the universe that is left over from its creation, is detected with a radio telescope, and is key evidence of the big bang theory of the origin of the universe?

• Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Infrared Waves

• Microwaves

What is the transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves, such as visible light and infrared waves?

• Electromagnetic Radiation

• Gamma Rays

• Light Waves

• Radiation

What is a continuum of all electromagnetic waves arranged according to frequency and wavelength, from radio waves to gamma radiation?

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Infrared Waves

• Microwaves

• Radio Astronomy

What are electromagnetic waves with the shortest wavelengths, highest frequencies, and highest energy; produced by supernovas or the destruction of atoms?

• Gamma Rays

• Light Waves

• Radiation

• Radio Waves

What are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths longer than visible light but shorter than microwaves?

• Infrared Waves

• Microwaves

• Radio Astronomy

• Redshift