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Question number 1 All of the following statements about false color are true except Your answer: 4. Red areas are hotter. Correct Question number 2 This object is Your answer: 4. a globular cluster. Correct Question number 3 The Sun Your answer: 4. Revolves around the center of the Galaxy. Correct Question number 4 In this true color image the planetary nebula called the Ring Nebula demonstrates a increase in temperature toward the red edges of the ring. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 5 The same side of the Moon is always facing Earth. (True - False) Your answer: 1. True Correct Question number 6 The Moon goes through Phases because the Earth shades part of the Moon in different times of the month (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 7 Pluto is about (_______) times further away from the sun than Earth is. Your answer: 2. 50 Correct Question number 8 The visible spectrum of light is made of many colors. The shorter wavelengths are red. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 9 The Full Moon is twice as bright as the half Moon. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 10 At night, in dim light, our eyes are more sensitive to the color Your answer: 2. Yellow Incorrect Question number 11 Blue flame is hotter than red and yellow flame. (True - False) Your answer: 1. True Correct Question number 12 When one uses NFO Webscope, one uses a computer to view the image. (True - False) Your answer: 1. True Correct Question number 13 The Earth has different seasons because Your answer: 3. The Earth is tilted on its axis. Correct Question number 14 The same star appears directly overhead at midnight every night. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 15 The primary colors of light are all except the following Your answer: 2. Yellow Correct Question number 16 This object is Your answer: 1. a planetary nebula. Correct Question number 17 Astronomers can directly measure the size of most stars. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 18 Stars twinkle because Your answer: 2. differences in energy output of the star. Incorrect Question number 19 The surface of the Earth is spinning Your answer: 4. 1000 miles per hour Correct Question number 20 To take a color picture with most telescopes, we must take three different pictures with color filters, and then recombine them. Your answer: 1. True Correct Question number 21 The Moon revolves around the Earth every Your answer: 3. about 28 days. Correct Question number 22 Radio waves, like visible light, are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum. (True - False) Your answer: 1. True Correct Question number 23 Messier Your answer: 2. was a comet hunter. Correct Question number 24 As the ambulance approaches us Your answer: 1. The Doppler Effect will be less on the flashing lights than the siren. Correct Question number 25 The nearest star to our sun is more than 3 light years away. (True - False) Your answer: 1. True Correct Question number 26 A light year is Your answer: 3. the distance that light will travel in a year. Correct Question number 27 The light from a galaxy or star that is getting closer to to us will be shifted toward red by the Doppler Effect. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 28 This object is Your answer: 4. a galaxy and companion. Correct Question number 29 If an ambulance was speeding towards us, the sound from the siren would be a lower frequency, while it was approaching. (True - False) Your answer: 2. False Correct Question number 30 Astronomer like to study open clusters because of all the following reasons except. Your answer: 1. The stars in a cluster tend to have the same starting ages. Incorrect Your grade is 90%.
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