Universe Test Review

Rotation:

1.  What is Rotation?

2.  What does rotation cause/create?

3.  Draw a picture of rotation and label day and night. (be sure to include the sun)

Revolution:

4.  What is revolution?

5.  What causes seasons?

6.  Label the seasons below for the Northern Hemisphere only.

7.  Draw a picture of the Earth, Moon, and Sun showing the Earth orbiting the Sun and the Moon orbiting the Earth.

Moon Phases:

8.  Color and label the moon phases below. Hint: Be sure to determine the New Moon first with the location of the Sun.

Tides:

9.  Draw a diagram of Spring Tide with the appropriate moon phases.

10. Draw a picture of Neap Tide with the appropriate moon phases.

11. What is the difference between Spring and Neap Tides.

12. Explain high and low tide.

The Universe:

13. Put the following in order from largest to smallest:

a.  Milky Way Galaxy

b.  Earth

c.  Solar System

d.  Sun

e.  Universe

14. Draw the 3 types of galaxies below and give one fact for each galaxy:

Spiral
Elliptical / Irregular

15. In the spiral galaxy below, place a star where our sun is located.

16. What is the size of our sun?

17. What size is our sun?

18. Where is our sun found in the Milky Way Galaxy?

19. Answer the following question about the HR diagram, using the diagram below.

a.  Which star is the hottest star? ______

b.  Which color, red or blue, is hotter? ______

c.  Which star is brighter, Sirius B or Deneb? ______

d.  Which star is cooler, Barnard’s Star or the Sun? ______

e.  Which star is less bright, Alcor or Zeta Eridani? ______

20. How do astronomers determine what elements a star is made of?

21. On the EMS diagram below, label the following: Longest wave length, shortest wavelength, highest frequency, lowest frequency, Radio Waves, Gamma Waves, Visible Light

22. How do astronomers measure distance in the universe?

23. What is a light year?

24. What is the Big Bang Theory, and what evidence supports it?

25. Which wavelength in the EMS supports red shift?

Please review:

Newton’s 3 laws, balanced/unbalanced forces, chemical formulas, subscripts, types of chemical reactions (synthesis, decomposition, single and double replacement), balanced equations