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Title: Review game


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Review game
  • Students break into teams of 4
  • Each team will discuss and answer each question
  • Scoring sheets are handed in at the end.
  • 5 points to winning team
  • 4 points for 2nd
  • 3 points 3rd
  • 2 points 4th
  • 1 point for 5th
  • 0 for 6th

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1- What is the currently most accepted theory
that describes the formation of the
universe?Big bang theory
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2- What type of galaxy is the milky way?Spiral
galaxy
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3- How long a star lasts is dependent only on its
____________Mass
5
4- What are stars classified by?Size,
brightness, and temperature
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5- The hottest stars are what color?Blue-white
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6- When a star has used up all of its hydrogen it
will turn into what?Red giant
8
7- How are all galaxies moving in relation to
every other galaxy?Away from each other
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8- All the different types of electromagnetic
waves are know as what?Electromagnetic spectrum
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9- What is the name of the force that pulls the
matter in stars together?gravity
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10- The distance light can travel in one year is
known as what?Light year
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11- What type of galaxy has almost no gas or
dust?Elliptical galaxies
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12-How old is the universe?14 to 15 billion
years old
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13- What types of telescopes gather and focus
visible light?Reflecting and refracting
telescopes
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14- How do astronomers determine the chemical
composition of a star?A spectrograph
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15- A nebula is the place where
_____________________a star begins its life
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16- A star more than 40 times the mass of the sun
will end its life as a what?A black hole
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17- A star is born when what starts to
occur?Nuclear fusion
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18- When a star has a slight back and forth
motion, it is an indication of what?That it has
a planet
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19- When our solar system formed, the planets
that lost most of their gases became the
what?The rocky inner planets
21
20- Determining the temperature of a star is
aided by using a what?A spectrograph
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21- Binary stars that become dimmer at regular
intervals are called what?Eclipsing binary stars
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22- Parallax is a method used to measure
what?The distance to nearby stars
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23- What does the brightness of a star depend
on?Size and temperature
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24- Main sequence stars show that they increase
in brightness as they increase in temperature on
what kind of diagram?Hertzsprung-Russel diagram
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