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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
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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
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2. differences in energy output of the star. Incorrect
Question number 19
The surface of the Earth is spinning
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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
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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
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2. was a comet hunter. Correct
Question number 24
As the ambulance approaches us
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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
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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
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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
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