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Chapter 16 Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of constellations are visible all year long?

a)

Modern

b)

Polar

c)

Circumpolar

d)

Only Polaris

2.

Modern astronomy divides the sky into how many constellations?

a)

90

b)

80

c)

98

d)

88

3.

The color of a star indicates its ___________.

a)

Temperature

b)

Age

c)

Type

d)

Denisty

4.

The sun is a _______.

a)

Moon

b)

Star

c)

Rock

d)

Country

5.

Sunspot maximums occur about every ______________.

a)

12-13 Years

b)

12-13 Days

c)

10-11 Days

d)

10-11 Years

6.

What does CME stand for?

a)

Control Mechanical Elites

b)

Collided Material Energies

c)

Coronal Material Education

d)

Coronal Mass Ejections

7.

What is an attractive force between objects that have mass?

a)

Nebula

b)

Giant

c)

SuperGiant

d)

Gravity

8.

A graph that shows the relationship of a star’s temperature to its absolute magnitude is called a ______________.

a)

Democritus-Galileo Diagram

b)

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

c)

Hertzsprung-Galileo Diagram

d)

Russell-Galileo Diagram

9.

Most stars fit into a diagonal band that runs from the upper left to the lower right of the graph. What is this called?

a)

The Main Energy

b)

The Main Sequence

c)

The Generated Energy

d)

The Band of Stars

10.

About ___________ of all stars are main sequence stars.

a)

80%

b)

90%

c)

60%

d)

70%

11.

_________ is a bright supergiant located 400 light years from earth.

a)

Polaris

b)

Orion

c)

Big Dipper

d)

Antares

12.

E=mc2 was a famous equation created by:

a)

Ejnar Hertzsprung

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Henry Russell

d)

John Smith

13.

What causes instability within the nebula?

a)

Fusion

b)

White dwarfs

c)

Gravitational Force

d)

Red Supergiant

14.

As the energy radiates into space, ________ are born.

a)

Star

b)

Giant

c)

White Dwarf

d)

Nebula

15.

This will eventually cool and stop giving off light.

a)

Star

b)

Giant

c)

White Dwarf

d)

Nebula

16.

What can be millions of times brighter than the original star?

a)

Nebula

b)

Giant

c)

Sueprnova

d)

Star

17.

What stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than 600 million metric tons in Earth’s gravity.

a)

Supergiant

b)

Black Hole

c)

Neutron Star

d)

Giant

18.

What is the galaxy called where the Earth and Solar System are in?

a)

Hubble

b)

Elliptical

c)

Irregular

d)

Milky Way

19.

Who published an interesting fact about the light coming from most galaxies?

a)

Local Group

b)

Edwin Hubble

c)

John Smith

d)

Penelope Cruz

20.

Studies of distant supernovae indicate that this energy is causing the universe to expand faster.

a)

Light

b)

Dark

c)

Super

d)

Giant

21.

The distance that light travels in one year

a)

Contellations

b)

Absolute Magnitude

c)

Light Year

d)

Photosphere

22.

Measure of the amount of light it gives of

a)

Contellations

b)

Absolute Magnitude

c)

Light Year

d)

Photosphere

23.

Patterns of the stars in the night sky

a)

Photosphere

b)

Constellations

c)

Apparent Magnitude

d)

Black Hole

24.

Lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere and the layer from which light is given off

a)

Photosphere

b)

Chromosphere

c)

Corona

d)

Nebula

25.

Measure of the amount of light is given off

a)

Big Bang Theory

b)

Apparent Magnitude

c)

Absolute Magnitude

d)

Neutron Star

26.

Extends upward about 2,000 KM above the photosphere

a)

Sunspot

b)

Chromosphere

c)

Giant

d)

SuperGiant

27.

The largest layer of the Sun's atmosphere extends millions of kilometers into space.

a)

Corona

b)

Constellations

c)

Light-Year

d)

Giant

28.

Areas of the Sun's surface that appear dark because they are cooler than surrounding areas

a)

Corona

b)

Sunspot

c)

Photosphere

d)

Galaxy

29.

Stars begin as a large cloud of gas and dust

a)

White Dwarf

b)

Neutron Star

c)

Sunspot

d)

Nebula

30.

Late stage in the life of comparatively low-mass sequence star in which hydrogen in the core is deleted

a)

Big Bang Theory

b)

Black Hole

c)

Giant

d)

SuperGiant

31.

About the size of Earth; hot, dense core

a)

Galaxy

b)

White Dwarf

c)

Neutron Star

d)

Corona

32.

Heavier and heavier elements form by fusion, and the star expands

a)

Supergiant

b)

Photosphere

c)

Big Bang Theory

d)

Galaxy

33.

Only neutrons can exist in the dense core

a)

Nebula

b)

Neutron

c)

Neutron Star

d)

Black Hole

34.

Light cannot escape from this region

a)

Black Hole

b)

Dark Energy

c)

Sunspot

d)

Galaxy

35.

Large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.

a)

Nebula

b)

Star

c)

Galaxy

d)

Sunspot

36.

The leading theory about the formation of the universe

a)

Atomic Theory

b)

Band of Stars Theory

c)

Big Star Theory

d)

Big Bang Theory

37.

Describe Circumpolar Constellations

a)

A constellation that releases energy by fusion.

b)

a constellation that increases and decreases over time in a regular, approximately 11 year cycle.

c)

a constellation that never sets below the horizon as viewed from a location on Earth.

38.

Describe the Sunspot Cycle

a)

The number of sunspots release energy by fusion.

b)

The number of sunspots that increases and decreases over time in a regular, approximately 11 year cycle.

c)

The number of sunspots never sets below the horizon as viewed from a location on Earth.

39.

Describe how stars release energy.

a)

Stars release energy by fusion. Hydrogen fuses and that creates helium. When a fusion like this occurs, a lot of energy is released into space.

b)

Stars release energy by increasing and decreasing the 11 year cycle.

c)

Stars release energy because they never set below the horizon as viewed from a location on Earth.

40.

Describe how all galaxies are similar.

a)

All galaxies are similar by hydrogen fuses and that creates helium. When a fusion like this occurs, a lot of energy is released into space.

b)

All galaxies are similar by increasing and decreasing the 11 year cycle.

c)

All galaxies are similar because they never set below the horizon as viewed from a location on Earth.

d)

All the galaxies in the universe contains stars, asteroids, planets, and galactic cloud