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WorksheetsAnalyzing Starlight (Ch 17)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 50mins
Which color star is likely to be the hottest?
red
green
blue-violet
yellow
When an astronomer measures a color index for a star, what is she measuring?
what color the human eye see when people look at that star
the difference between how bright a star looks at two different wavelength regions
the total luminosity of the star in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum
the amount of hydrogen in the atmosphere of a star
Which of the following types of star has the coolest temperature?
O
A
M
F
The main reason stars do not all look alike is that the stars...
are located in many different regions of the Milky Way
have different temperatures
are made of significantly different elements
sometimes have atmospheres and sometimes do not
Spectral Classes are arranged in order of...
decreasing temperature
increasing mass
increasing amount of hydrogen
decreasing distance from us
The astronomer who created the official catalog of spectral classes that we use today was...
Edwin Hubble
Annie Jump Cannon
Cecilia Payne
Joseph Fraunhofer
Which of the following celestial objects has too little mass to qualify as a star?
a brown dwarf
the Sun
an M-type dwarf
an O-type star
How do astronomers measure the speed of a star?
by seeing the luminosity of the star decrease as it moves away
by measuring the diameter of a star
by seeing the whole star become redder
by looking at the Doppler shift in the lines of the star's spectrum
Imagine you are one million years in the future. Which of the following statements about the sky you would see in that future time is correct?
all the stars and constellations would look exactly the same as they do now
all the stars we can see in the sky today will have died in a million years
because of proper motion, a number of the familiar constellations will look somewhat different in a million years
at the present time, astronomers do not know enough about the universe to say what the sky might be like in a million years
How do astronomers identify a star that is rotating rapidly?
stars that rotate show a large Doppler Shift to only the blue end of the spectrum
stars that rotate have a much lower luminosity
stars that rotate have much wider absorption lines in their spectra
there is no way to tell if stars are rotating rapidly
