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Ch 26 Astronomy

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True or False: ground based telescopes do not experience interference from Earth’s

atmosphere

Answer

False

Home

Answer

Instrument that detects invisible radio waves from objects in space

Home

radiotelescope

Instrument that uses a set of lenses to gather and focus light

Answer

Refracting telescope

Home

A constellation’s change in position over several

HOURS is caused by _____

Answer

Earth’s rotation

Home

Telescope used by Galileo to see craters on the moon

for the first time

Answer

Refracting telescope

Home

All frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation are called ______

Answer

Home

The electromagnetic spectrum

Name a color that has a visible wavelength

Answer

ROYGBV

(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet)

Home

Which instrument was electromagnetic

radiation discovered with?

Answer

A thermometer

Home

Which rays are the strongest and shortest

waves?

Answer

Gamma rays

Home

True or False: Infrared has a visible wavelength

Answer

Home

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False

Daily Double!!!

During which season does the Northern

Hemisphere have the most sunlight?

Answer

Summer solstice

Home

Answer

What season is the autumnal equinox?

Home

Fall

The beginning of spring is marked by which equinox?

Answer

Vernal

Home

The Northern Hemisphere has the fewest daylight hours during the ____.

Answer

Winter Solstice

Home

Daily Double!!

In the orbit of a planet, the point where it is closest to the sun is

known as what?Answer

Perihelion

Home

Answer

Event in which the universe was said to have begun

Big Bang Theory

Home

An astronomical unit is about how many million

kilometers?

Answer

150 million km

Home

What is a large collection of stars,

dust and gas bound together by gravity?

Answer

Galaxy

Home

This is equal to the average distance

between the Earth and the Sun

Answer

Home

An AU (astronomical unit)

Answer

When the orbit of a planet is furthest from the Sun

Aphelion

Home

Bonus!! Double Points!

In what year did man land on the moon?

Answer

1969

Home

True or False: The Coriolis Effect is evidence that the

Earth spins on its axis

Answer

True

Home

True or False: Telescopes are sent to space because

they experience interference from the Earth’s atmosphere

Answer

True

Home

True or False: A constellations changing

position in the sky over a period of several

weeks/months is proof Earth revolves around the sun

Answer

True

Home

Unit that equals 9.46 x 1012 km

Answer

Light-year

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