1. What color are the coolest stars?

Orange Blue

Yellow Red White

2. What color are the hottest stars?

Orange Blue

Yellow Red White

3. A dense collapsed star whose electrons and protons smashed together to form neutrons

Nebula Nova

Neutron Star

Protostar Black hole

4. A large cloud of gas and dust in space where stars are born

Nebula Nova

Neutron Star

Protostar Black hole

5. A shrinking, spinning region in space with a central concentration of matter (center of a nebula)

Nebula Nova

Neutron Star

Protostar Black hole

6. A large explosion on a star that makes it brighter

Nebula Nova

Neutron Star

Protostar Black hole

7. An object so dense that even light cannot escape its gravity

Nebula Nova

Neutron Star

Protostar Black hole

8. The Big Bang Theory occurred …

1 bya 4 mya

5 bya

14 mya 14 bya

9. When did cosmic background radiation form….

Shortly before the BBT

Shortly after the BBT

No one knows

10. Energy is generated in a star’s core as _______________ fuses into _____________.

Carbon; hydrogen

Hydrogen; oxygen

Helium; hydrogen

Carbon; hydrogen

Hydrogen; helium

11. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?

Spiral Irregular

Elliptical

12. Stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity is called?

Star cluster Earth

Galaxy

Universe

13. Stars appear to move because…

The sky is spinning

Stars are moving

The Earth is moving

The Universe is expanding

14. A light-year is the __________ that light travels in a year.

Speed Distance

time

15. The observed change in the frequency of a wavelength wheneither the source or the observer is moving is known as ….

Shift change Doppler Effect

Absorption spectrum

Apparent magnitude

16. A graph of a star’s luminosity against its temperature is called?

Doppler effect

HR diagram

Parallax graph

17. The first step in the scientific method is ?

Form a hypothesis Ask a question

Gather information/ make observations

Report your results

18. A standard that is used as comparison in an experiment is a(n) ?

Independent variable Dependent variable

Constant/ control hypothesis

19. Data that is obtained by mass, volume, length, and quantity?

Measured data Qualitative data

Observable data

Quantitative data

20. A factor that is manipulated in an experiment?

Dependent variable

Independent variable

Control Theory

21. A factor that responds to changes in other variables

Dependent variable

Independent variable

Control Theory

22. A PATTERN OF METEOROLOGICAL SYMBOLS THAT REPRESENT THE WEATHER AT A PARTICULAR OBSERVING STATION IS A ….?

Weather station station model

Satellite image

weather site

23. MOST DAMAGING TORNADO

F1

F2

F3

F4F5

24. WHICH IS NOT AN AIR MASS?

Maritime polar Continental Polar

Maritime Continental

Continental Tropical

Continental Polar

25. CLOUDS THAT BRING THUNDERSTORMS

Altocumulus nimbostratus

Stratocumulus

cumulonimbus

26. THE TWO MOST ABUNDANT COMPOUNDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE??

CO2 and H2O

NO2 and H2O

H2O and CH4

NH4 and CO2

27. WHAT IS THE MOST ABUNDANT ELEMENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE?

C

H

O He

N

28. TWO MAJOR FACTORS USED TO IDENTIFY CLIMATE ARE…

Longitude and latitude

latitude and temperature

Temperature and precipitation

precipitation and longitude

29. THE FACTOR THAT DETERMINES THE ANGLE AT WHICH THE SUN’S RAYS HIT THE EARTH?

Weather

Sea level

Latitude Wind

30. A TELESCOPE THAT USES A SET OF LENSES

TO GATHER AND FOCUS LIGHT FROM DISTANT

OBJECTS IS A(n)…??

Reflecting refracting

Radio Space

TELESCOPE

32. Because a complete revolution of

Earth takes 365 ¼ days, ___________

was established.

Groundhogs Day

Leap Year

Labor Day

Halloween

Valentine’s

33. Dissolved solids such as rocks

were carried from land into the ocean

which made the early oceans …

Cloudy

Salty

Sandy

34. Particles thrown off the sun’s

corona that can affect Earth’s

magnetic field are….

Coronal mass injection Nuclear fusion

Coronal mass ejection

Prominence Sunspot

35. Sediment closer to the mid-ocean

ridge is

Younger

Rockier

Harder Older

36. Wegner’s hypothesis of

continental drift was confirmed….

Evidence of sea floor spreading

Ice cores

Formation of mountain ranges

Fossils were found on different continents

37. The theory of How continents move is

described by…

Paleomagnetism Sea floor spreading

Plate tectonics