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Unit 1 Astronomy Review
Game
Question 1
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The coolest stars exhibit what color?
Question 1 Answer
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Red
Question 2
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A device for separating light into different
colors is what?
Question 2 Answer
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Spectroscope
Question 3
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A star moving away from the earth would
display what type of shift?
Question 3 Answer
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Red Shift
Question 4
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The H-R diagram is a plot of stars’ surface
temperatures against their what?
Question 4 Answer
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Absolute Magnitude
Question 5
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Which stage is the earliest in the
development of a star?
Question 5 Answer
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Protostar
Question 6
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The process that takes place in the core of
stars that fuels that star on the main
sequence is known as what?
Question 6
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Nuclear Fusion
Question 7
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The transfer of energy in moving liquids
and gases occurs by what process?
Question 7 Answer
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Convection
Question 8
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The visible portion of the sun as seen from
earth?
Question 8 Answer
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Photosphere
Question 8 answer
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photosphere
Question 9
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Name the gas giants
Question 9 answer
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Question 10
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Which of the following solar disturbances
is most violent
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solar wind, sunspots, solar flares, coronal
hole
Question 10 answer
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solar flares
Question 11
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The point in the earth’s orbit where the
earth is closest to the sun is what?
Question 11 answer
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Perihelion
Question 12
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Heliocentric Theory of solar system was
proposed by who?
Question 12 answer
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Copernicus
Question 13
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Earth’s atmosphere is mainly composed of
what?
Question 13 answer
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Oxygen
Question 14
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Bowl-shaped lunar depressions are called
what?
Question 14
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Craters
Question 15
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The orbit of the moon around the earth is
in the shape of a what?
Question 15 answer
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ellipse
Question 16
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When the visible portion of the moon is
increasing, the moon is in the waxing or
waning phases?
Question 16 answer
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Waxing
Question 17
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What is the name of the calendar we use
today in the U.S.?
Question 17 answer
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Gregorian
Question 18
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What are the moons of Mars?
Question 18
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Phobos and Deimos
Question 19
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What are the moons of Jupiter?
Question 19 answer
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Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede
Question 20
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Fixed patterns of stars in the night sky are
called what?
Question 20 Answer
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Constellations
Question 22
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The seasons are caused by what?
Question 22 answer
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Earth’s Tilt
Question 23
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What part of the sun is visible during a
solar eclipse?
Question 23 answer
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Corona
Question 24
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Which term describes the beginning of
Spring in the Northern Hemisphere?
Question 24 answer
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vernal equinox
Question 21
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Meteors can also be called what?
Question 21 answer
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Shooting Star
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