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Unit Review
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Period:
Waves
1) What is a wave?
2) What happens to the particles that a wave flows through?
3) Explain how a sound wave works?
13) Which sets of letters identifies the amplitude of the wave shown above? Identify 2 sets.
14) Which sets of letters identifies the wavelength of the wave shown above? Identify 3 sets.
22) How does the Doppler Effect change sound if the object is moving
towards you?
away from you?
23) How does the Doppler Effect change light if the object is moving
towards you?
away from you?
Electromagnetic Spectrum:
24) What are the 3 things that vary on the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
25) What are the categories of waves on the EM Spectrum from longest wavelength to shortest?
Lowest?
Least energy?
Ultraviolet Light
X-rays
Gamma Rays
The Universe:
30) What discovery led to our belief that the Universe is expanding?
31) Explain what the Big Bang is.
32) What initally is the best piece of evidence we gathered for proof of the Big Bang Theory?
33) How old do we think the Universe is?
34) What elements were formed during the Big Bang?
35) What is a nebula?
36) When does a nebular cloud officially become a Star?
37) Where in a star is energy produced when it is on the main sequence?
38) What process within a star produces the energy?
39) How do we get so much energy from this process?
40) What is the heaviest element a Sun-sized star can produce in its core?
41) What is the heaviest element that the largest sized star can produce in its core?
42) Where do elements heavier than a star can produce in its core come from then?
43) How can we determine a stars composition?
44) How can we determine a stars temperature?
Main Sequence
Red Giants
Red Supergiants
Blue Giants
Red Dwarfs
White Dwarfs?
48) Where on an HR Diagram (and in a stars life cycle) do stars spend most of their life?
49) What happens to a star as it sits on the main sequence
in terms of its size?
50) Describe the life cycle of a Sun-sized star when it uses up the hydrogen in its core? Include where
it is on the HR Diagram during its different stages.
52) If a star is 8X bigger than the Sun, how does its die differently than our Sun?
53) What are the possible things that remain when a massive star dies?
55) According to the nebular theory how do we get planets to form? (include static charges and
gravity in your answer.)
56) According to the nebular theory how old is our solar system?