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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the speed of light?
a)
300,000 km/s
b)
300 mph
c)
300,000,000,000 m/s
d)
7 miles/second
2.
What type of spectrum do stars emit?
a)
continuous
b)
absorption
c)
emission
d)
spectral
3.
What type of spectrum is given off by a gas when heated?
a)
continuous
b)
absorption
c)
emission
d)
spectral
4.
What type of spectrum is created when light passes through a cool, transparent gas?
a)
continuous
b)
emission
c)
absorption
d)
spectral
5.
Which of the following spectrum list is in the correct order?
a)
radio, micro, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x, gamma
b)
gamma, x, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, micro, radio
c)
radio, infrared, micro,ultraviolet,visible,x,gamma
d)
x,gamma,micro,radio,ultraviolet,infrared,visible
6.
What are packets of light called?
a)
packtons
b)
protons
c)
photons
d)
tachyons
7.
Whose law tells you which wavelength of light is most intense for an object?
a)
Wien's
b)
Kirchoff's
c)
Boltzmann's
d)
Doppler's
8.
What is the study of unique color lines emitted by elements called?
a)
spectroscopy
b)
adaptive optics
c)
radio telescopy
d)
blackbody measurements
9.
What is the name of the effect that shrinks or stretches waves?
a)
Doppler
b)
Boltzmann
c)
Kirchoff
d)
Wein
10.
When something is moving towards you what color does it look more like?
a)
Red
b)
Blue
c)
Purple
d)
Green
11.
When something is moving away from you what color does it look more like?
a)
Red
b)
Blue
c)
Purple
d)
Green
12.
What type of telescope uses lenses to bend light into a point?
a)
refracting
b)
reflecting
c)
CCD
d)
interferometer
13.
What type of telescope uses a mirror to concentrate light into point?
a)
refracting
b)
reflecting
c)
interferometer
d)
CCD
14.
What type of telescope uses charged plates to record incoming light?
a)
reflecting
b)
refracting
c)
CCD
d)
interferomtery
15.
What is the ability of a telescope to separate two distant points of light?
a)
angular resolution
b)
magnification
c)
light-gathering power
d)
eyepiecing
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