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Astronomy 104 Exam 2
Natalie Balzert
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Question 1

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What advantage do you gain by having two eyes that are separated on your face, rather than being very close together?
Answer
  • Better collecting area, which allows you to see dimmer objects
  • Double vision, which allows you to see multiple objects at once
  • Color vision, which allows you to determine temperatures
  • Stereoscopic vision, which allows you to determine distances
  • Better magnification, which allows you to see smaller objects

Question 2

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To measure the parallax of the most distant stars measurable, we would make two measurements of the star's position on the sky separated by:
Answer
  • 6 hours
  • 12 hours
  • 24 hours
  • 6 months
  • 2 months

Question 3

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Stars A and B appear equally bright, but star A is twice as far away from us as star B. Which of the following is true?
Answer
  • Star A is twice as luminous as star B
  • Star A is four times as luminous as star B
  • Star B is four times as luminous as star B
  • Star B is twice as luminous as star A
  • Star A and star B have the same luminosity because they have the same brightness

Question 4

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Which sequence correctly lists the spectral classes of stars in order from hottest to coolest?
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  • ABFGKMO
  • OABGFMK
  • EIEIO
  • OBAFGKM
  • MKGFABO

Question 5

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The faster-moving star in a binary is:
Answer
  • The less massive star
  • The more massive star
  • The smaller radius star
  • The larger radius star
  • The lower temperature star

Question 6

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On a typical H-R diagram, where are the stars with the largest radii located?
Answer
  • In the upper left corner
  • in the upper right corner
  • In the center
  • In the lower left corner
  • In the lower right corner

Question 7

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The one property of a main-sequence star that determines all its other properties is its:
Answer
  • Luminosity
  • Mass
  • Temperature
  • Spectral Type
  • Brightness

Question 8

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Hydrostatic equilibrium is a balance between:
Answer
  • Heat and centrifugal force
  • Core temperature and surface temperature
  • Pressure and gravity
  • Radiation and heat
  • Centrifugal force and gravity

Question 9

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The majority of the Sun's energy come from:
Answer
  • Gravitational contraction
  • Nuclear fission of uranium
  • Hydrogen fusion
  • Helium burning
  • Burning material as in a fire

Question 10

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If the core of the Sun were hotter than it is now, how would the Sun's energy production change?
Answer
  • It would produce less energy per second then it does now
  • It would produce more energy per second than it does now
  • Its energy production would vary more than it does now
  • Its energy production would be more stable than it is now
  • The Sun's energy production would not change

Question 11

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What do astronomers mean when they say that the Sun makes energy by hydrogen burning?
Answer
  • The Sun is combusting hydrogen in a fire and releasing energy
  • The Sun is fusing hydrogen into uranium and releasing energy
  • The Sun is made of mostly hydrogen at very high temperature
  • The Sun is fusing hydrogen into helium and releasing energy
  • The Sun is accumulating hydrogen from the solar wind and releasing energy

Question 12

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Which of these can travel directly from the center of the Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes?
Answer
  • Photons
  • Electrons
  • Protons
  • Neutons
  • Neutinos

Question 13

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The magnetic field of the Sun is continuously produced and deformed by:
Answer
  • Its differential rotation
  • The solar wind
  • Changes in the rate of nuclear fusion in the core
  • Liquid conducting layer in the interior
  • This is a trick question, the solar magnetic field is primordial

Question 14

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If you could watch stars forming out of a gas cloud, which stars would form first?
Answer
  • Low-mass stars
  • Medium-mass stars
  • High-mass stars
  • The ones with most natural talents
  • Stars with more heavy elements

Question 15

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Warm ionized gas in the interstellar medium appear _____ when imaged in the optical region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Answer
  • Red
  • Yellow
  • White
  • Blue
  • Dark

Question 16

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21-cm radiation is important because:
Answer
  • It allows us to study the deep interiors of stars
  • It allows us to image magnetic fields directly
  • It allows us to study neutral hydrogen in the interstellar medium
  • It is produced by every object in the universe
  • It is the longest wavelength of light that can naturally be produced

Question 17

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An accretion disk forms around a collapsing protostar because infalling material must conserve:
Answer
  • Energy
  • Centrifugal force
  • Gravity
  • Velocity
  • Angular Momentum

Question 18

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The source of energy for a contracting protostar comes from:
Answer
  • Thermonuclear energy
  • Kinetic energy
  • Chemical Energy
  • Gravitational potential energy
  • Radiation energy

Question 19

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Of the following processes at work in molecular clouds, which is the one that inevitably dominates the clouds's evolution?
Answer
  • Magnetic fields
  • Conservation of angular momentum
  • Pressure
  • Gravity
  • Turbulence

Question 20

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What critical event transforms a protostar into a normal main-sequence star?
Answer
  • Planets in the accretion disk
  • The star grows suddenly larger in radius
  • Triple alpha reactions begin in the core
  • Nuclear fusion begins in the core
  • Convection begins throughout the star's interior

Question 21

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A nova is the result of which explosive situation?
Answer
  • Mass transfer onto a white dwarf
  • Helium burning in a degenerate stellar core
  • A white dwarf which exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit
  • The collision of members of a binary system
  • Runaway nuclear reactions in the core

Question 22

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The principal means by which high-mass stars generate energy on the main sequence is called:
Answer
  • The proton-proton chain
  • The carbon-carbon reaction
  • The triple-alpha process
  • The CNO Cycle
  • Neutrino cooling

Question 23

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Massive stars synthesize chemical elements going from helium up to iron:
Answer
  • Throughout the interior
  • Primarily at the surface
  • Only in the core of the star
  • Along the equator of the star
  • In a deep convection zone in the interior of the star

Question 24

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What causes massive stars to expel their outer layers?
Answer
  • Radiation pressure
  • High magnetic fields
  • Rapid rotation
  • Carbon fusion
  • Emission of neutrinos

Question 25

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During the main-sequence evolution of a massive star, increasingly heavier elements are fused in the core, giving the core support for:
Answer
  • Longer and longer times
  • Shorter and shorter times
  • An approximately equal amount of time
  • Approximately 10,000 years
  • Only a few days

Question 26

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The Crab Nebula is an important test of our ideas about supernova explosions because:
Answer
  • People saw the supernova and later astronomers found a pulsar inside the nebula
  • The system contains X-Ray binary
  • The nebula is expanding slowly, as expected from mass loss rates in massive stars
  • Crabs must have evolved before humans
  • Astronomers observed the merger of the two stars

Question 27

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Which of these begins first in the core of a massive star?
Answer
  • Silicon fusion to iron
  • Neon fusion to magnesium
  • Carbon fusion to neon
  • Helium fusion to carbon
  • Hydrogen fusion to helium

Question 28

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Where did all heavy elements in the Sun come from?
Answer
  • Previous generation of stars seeded the interstellar medium out of the Sun formed
  • Nearby supernova explosions directly contaminated the Sun's surface
  • Nucleosynthesis within the Sun generated all the elements we see in the solar spectrum
  • The Sun gobbled up some planets during the early days of our Solar System
  • The solar wind carries away hydrogen and helium, leaving behind the heavy elements

Question 29

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Iron has 26 protons in its nucleus, and gold has 79 protons. Where did all the gold on the Earth come from?
Answer
  • Nucleosynthesis on the surfaces of neutron stars
  • Nucleosynthesis that took place in supernova explosions
  • Nucleosynthesis in the cores of low-mass stars
  • Nucleosynthesis in the cores of massive stars
  • Nucleosynthesis in red giant and horizontal-branch stars

Question 30

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According to Einstein's relativity, which two quantities are different manifestations of the same thing?
Answer
  • Mass and gravity
  • Light and energy
  • Energy and mass
  • Temperature and energy
  • Distance and time
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