Getting ahead start on Mr. Gillinghams Science Exams
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The oval path on which our Earth cutss an imaginery slice through the solar system? | the plane of the elliptic
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| The sun's brightest rays? | the zenith
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| The Earths rotational axis? | 23.5 degrees
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| The tilt of the Earth causes the Earth to have_________? | seasons
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| Latitude: As far north as the Sun's zenith will ever reach | 23.5 N
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| T of F: The sun's most direct rays reach Chilliwack once a year? | False
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| As the dead of our winter, the sun's most direct rays are on the Tropic of _________? | Capricorn
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| The theory that the sun is the center of the solar system. | Heliocentric model
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| The early universe was mainly this element? | hydrogen
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| Galaxies speeding away from each other is upport for this theory. | Big Bang
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| The stretching of light waves is called _____________? | red shift
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| red shifts supports what theory? | Big Bang
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| Type of radiation that comes off black holes as they swallow other star. | Gamma Rays
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| in ROYGBIV the least powerful light is this color. | Red
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| A collection of gas and dust particles | nebula
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| T or F: Planets with solid surfaces form farthest from the sun. | false
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| T or F: Planets with gaseous surfaces form farthest from the sun. | true
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| To be a planet, a space chunk must have its own __________________ around the sun. | orbital path
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| T or F: Blue stars occupy the arms of a sprial galaxy. | true
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| T or F: Yellow stars burn hotter than blue stars. | false
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| T or F: Red stars are older than blue stars. | true
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| At death, our sun will become a __________________? | white dwarf
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| When our sun expands to engulf Mercury it will have a hydrogen, helium or carbon core? | helium
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| When all the hydrogen in our sun is gone, the star will become a ____________________? | red giant
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| After the stream of dust ours off a red giant, the star becomes a _________________? | white dwarf
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| Streams of dust from red giants will eventually gravitate together to form a ________? | nebula
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| Nearing the end of a 20 solar star mass will have a ______ core. | carbon
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| T or F: A 20 solar mass stars will not contract after fusion of helium begins. | False
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| T or F: A 20 solar mass stars will produce elements heavier than iron. | true
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| The spectacular death off a high mass star. | supernova
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| Spectacular star death only occurs in stars of solar mass ____ or higher. | 10
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| A neutron star that sends out a rotating beam of radio waves. | pulsar
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| A 20 solar mass star will leave behind a ______. | neutron star
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| A 50 solar mass star will leave behind a ______. | black hole
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| Expansion and contraction cycles of high mass stars are important because they produce______________________. | elements
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| T or F: Supernovas created the materials for solar systems. | true
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| Stars orginnally formed from collasping________. | nebulas
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| ______________formed whe stars blasted out materials . | planets/ solar systems
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| Today galaxies continue to move away or ________________. | red shift
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