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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the correct order of the visible light spectrum?
Red, yellow, orange, blue, violet, indigo
Violet, purple, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange
Green, yellow, blue, indigo, red, orange,
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
- 2. Multiple Choice
What wave has the longest wavelength and lowest energy?
Gamma rays
Infrared
Radio
Visible light
- 3. Multiple Choice
An example of a wave with a short wavelength and high energy is a
Gamma Ray
Microwave
Visible light wave
Infrared wave
- 4. Multiple Choice
What kind of electromagnetic radiation do we feel as heat?
Gamma rays
Visible light waves
Infrared waves
X rays
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following electromagnetic waves do we use to heat our food and for cellular phones?
Radio Waves
Microwaves
Visible Light
Gamma Rays
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which electromagnetic waves help doctors detect broken bones inside your body?
gamma rays
x-rays
ultraviolet rays
- 7. Multiple Choice
How much of the electromagnetic spectrum is made up of visible light?
only a small portion
a very large portion
about half
- 8. Multiple Choice
Astronomers have invented telescopes that allow us to "see" beyond the visible range.
True
False
- 9. Multiple Choice
A refracting telescope uses _______ to focus light.
Lenses
Mirrors
Lasers
Water
- 10. Multiple Choice
Reflecting telescopes use _______ to focus light.
Lenses
Glass
Mirrors
Lasers
- 11. Multiple Choice
What type of telescope can work 24 hours a day and even be used in the rain?
Refracting Telescope
Radio Telescope
Newtonian Telescope
Solar Telescope
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why is the Hubble telescope located in space?
So it can be closer to the stars it magnifies
It has very large optical lenses
So its images aren't distorted by Earth's atmosphere
So it can be operated by astronauts
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why are many large optical telescopes located on mountains?
to be closer to the stars
to be above some of the atmosphere and further from city lights
because it is easier to build telescopes on mountains
to be closer to city lights
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the MAJOR problem with trying to see stars in or near a city?
No telescopes
Light pollution
Clouds
The stars are too far away.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Humans have made which of the following kinds of telescopes?
X-ray
Gamma Ray
Infrared
All of the above
- 16. Multiple Choice
This form of radiation is harmful to humans and causes sunburn.
Gamma
Ultra Violet
Microwave
Infrared
- 17. Multiple Choice
When you put light through a prism it separates into different colors called a
spasm
special
spectrum
spork
- 18. Multiple Choice
The distance from the top of one wave to the top of the next is
wavelength
wash line
frequency
amplitude
- 19. Multiple Choice
The Kepler Space Telescope's mission was to find
black holes
nebula
neutron stars
exoplanets
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