Waves & Universe

Unit Review

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Waves
1) What is a wave?
2) What happens to the particles that a wave flows through?
3) Explain how a sound wave works?

4) What does a sound wave actually carry (or transport)?

5) What is wavelength?
6) What is amplitude?
7) What does the amplitude of a wave correspond to? (What does it relate to?)
8) In a sound wave, what does the amplitude relate to?
9) What is frequency?
10) What are the SI (metric) units for frequency?
11) If a circus performer swings back and forth 3 times in 15 seconds, what is the frequency of swings?
12) How are frequency and pitch related?
Use the diagram below to answer the next set of questions.

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.

15) How many wave oscillations/cycles are shown in Figure 1 above?

Use the diagram below to answer the next set of questions

16) Which wave pattern above represents the highest frequency?

17) Which wave pattern above represents the lowest frequency?
18) Which wave pattern above has the longest wavelength?
19) Which wave pattern above has the shortest wavelength?
20) Which wave pattern above illustrates the loudest sound?
21) Describe what the Doppler Effect is?

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?

26) What category on the EM Spectrum has the highest frequency?

Lowest?

27) What category on the EM Spectrum has the most energy?

Least energy?

28) What is the main difference between any 2 colors of light?

29) Where might you encounter each of the different forms of EM waves? (i.e. what are some
devises/applications that use each type of wave?)
Radio
Microwave
Infrared
Visible Light

 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?

45) What does an HR Diagram plot on its X and Y axis?

46) What is the main sequence?

47) Label on the HR Diagram where the following are

located

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?

in terms of its fuel?

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.

51) What two things remain after a Sun-sized star dies?

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?

54) Explain the nebular hypothesis/theory?

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?