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Earth Science Quiz 5 Retake

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

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Class
Date
1.

The age and size of the cosmos are written in what?

a)

Light

b)

Time

c)

Energy

2.

The "al"s in Algebra, Alchemy, Algorithm and Alcohol are left over traces of what language of science?

a)

Latin

b)

Arabic

c)

English

3.

What is the basic particle of light?

a)

Molecule

b)

Photon

c)

Atom

4.

What stands still when you're traveling at the speed of light?

a)

Light

b)

Oxygen

c)

Time

5.

Which one of these things did Isaac Newton NOT discover?

a)

White light is a mixture of all of the colors of the rainbow.

b)

Objects in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by something else.

c)

The speed of light

d)

The more mass of an object, the more force is required to move it

6.

How do humans detect infrared light?

a)

Red light

b)

Heat

c)

Blue light

7.

What is the distance between adjacent waves called?

a)

High Frequency

b)

Wavelength

c)

Low Frequency

8.

What travels faster: Sound waves or Light waves?

a)

Sound Waves

b)

Light Waves

9.

What does the wavelength of light determine?

a)

How fast the light travels

b)

The colors we see

c)

How far the light travels

10.

What color are the longest waves that we see that also have the lowest energy?

a)

Red

b)

Blue

c)

Yellow

d)

Green

11.

True or False. The longer the wavelength, the higher the energy.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What force shows us that dark matter exists?

a)

Light Matter

b)

The speed of light

c)

Gravity

d)

Momentum

13.

What do the black lines in Fraunhofer's spectrum represent?

a)

Nothing

b)

Light waves of a particular color are being absorbed

c)

Different colors are being reflected so they can't be seen

14.

What is the simplest and most plentiful kind of atom in the cosmos?

a)

Oxygen

b)

Water

c)

Hydrogen

15.

When you look at a star in a spectroscope, what do the dark lines represent?

a)

The colors you can see on the star

b)

The elements in its atmosphere

c)

How much life is on the star

16.

The planets, stars, galaxies, and all of life are made of the same what?

a)

Water

b)

Oxygen

c)

Elements or Star Stuff

17.

Using spectral lines, scientists discovered that our universe is doing what?

a)

Shrinking

b)

Growing

c)

Staying the same

d)

Getting older

18.

Using what type of light can we see from all the way back to the birth of the universe?

a)

Gamma Ray Light

b)

Microwave Light

c)

Visible Light

d)

Infrared Light

19.

What does Inertia mean?

a)

Things like to stay the same

b)

Things like to sit still

c)

Things like to move

20.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Newton's First Law of Motion

b)

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

c)

Newton's Law of Gravity

21.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

b)

Newton's Second Law of Motion

c)

Newton's Law of Gravity

22.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

b)

Fraunhofer's Spectrum

c)

Newton's Third Law of Motion

23.

How many times around the earth does light travel in one second?

a)

10 times

b)

93,000,000 miles

c)

7.5 times