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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
A distant star is between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. It emits mostly yellow light as it approaches the Andromeda galaxy. How would the color appear to an alien flying directly alongside the star?
The star’s light would be shifted closer to the color red
The star’s light would be shifted closer to the color blue
The star’s light would not appear to be different
It depends on how fast the star is traveling
A distant star is between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. It emits mostly yellow light as it approaches the Andromeda galaxy. How would the color appear to an alien in the Andromeda galaxy?
The star’s light would be shifted closer to the color red
The star’s light would be shifted closer to the color blue
The star’s light would not appear to be different
It depends on how fast the star is traveling
A distant star is between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. It emits mostly yellow light as it approaches the Andromeda galaxy. How would the color appear to us in the milky way galaxy?
The star’s light would be shifted closer to the color red
The star’s light would be shifted closer to the color blue
The star’s light would not appear to be different
It depends on how fast the star is traveling
What will the sun be in its final stage of the life cycle?
Neutron Star
Black Hole
White Dwarf
Red Giant
Earth revolves around a ___ in our solar system.
The remains of a very large star, classified as a black hole
A small star classified as an average star
The remains of a small star, classified as a white dwarf
A large star, classified as a red supergiant
A fire truck with it's siren blaring at 7,000 Hz is traveling towards a stationary observer, Which frequency would the driver of the firetruck hear?
6,000 Hz
7,000 Hz
8,000 Hz
0 Hz
A fire truck with it's siren blaring at 7,000 Hz is traveling towards a stationary observer, Which frequency would the observer hear?
6,000 Hz
7,000 Hz
8,000 Hz
0 Hz
A fire truck with it's siren blaring at 7,000 Hz is passing a stationary observer, Which frequency would the observer hear?
6,000 Hz
7,000 Hz
8,000 Hz
0 Hz
How old is our solar system?
13.7 Billion years
4.6 Billion years
18 Trillion years
10,000 years
According to the Doppler effect, the color of any object moving away from you will shift towards _____, while the color of any object moving closer while shift towards ______.
blue, red
red, blue
white, black
black, white
A galaxy is a collection of gas, dust, stars and planets held together by:
Protostars
Helium
Heat
Gravity
Where in space can you find cosmic background radiation?
Close to stars
In between stars
Everywhere equally
In black holes
What is a stellar nebula?
A star running out of hydrogen
A dust cloud from which a star is formed
The "dead" core of a star
A star "exploding"
How do astronomers classify our sun?
A red giant
An average star
A massive star
Stellar nebula
Most stars are composed of which two elements?
Hydrogen and Helium
Hydrogen and Nitrogen
Helium and Carbon
Carbon and Oxygen
Which of the following processes happens when a star is born?
Rotation
Red shift
Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Fusion
What have scientists discovered about our universe before the Big Bang?
Nothing (so far)
Multiple other universes
Only one planet
Multiple solar systems
The big bang theory describes which of the following?
the formation of our solar system exclusively
the formation of the universe
the life cycle of a star
the future of the universe
The universe formed _____ years ago
13.7 Billion years
4.6 Billion years
18 Trillion years
10,000 years
Cosmic background radiation is made up of which of the following types of light?
Infrared
Visible Light
Microwaves
Radio Waves
According to the big bang theory, the universe is:
Exploding
Expanding
Slowly dying
5 million years old
When a police car blaring its siren is traveling towards an observer, the wavelength becomes:
Shorter
Longer
Stays the same
Nothing
Which of the following is the final stage of the life cycle of a star that can occur after the supernova of the most massive stars?
White Dwarf
Black Hole
Red Supergiant
Quasar
Stars moving away from the earth appear to give off a red light because:
the color red has the longest wavelength of the colors of visible light
the color red has the shortest wavelength of the colors of visible light
the color red has the highest frequency of the colors of visible light
the color red has the highest energy of the colors of visible light
Which of the following does not support the big bang theory?
Cosmic Background Radiation
The observation that all galaxies appear to be moving away from us
The observation that the milky way galaxy orbits a large black hole
Red Shift
