Honors Earth Science Stars Review

Question 1

How do we get elements heavier than Iron?

Accepted Answer

Supernovas

Question 2

If our last sunspot maximum was in 2014, when will most likely be our sunspot minimum?

Accepted Answer

2020

Question 3

How can a star have a high absolute magnitude and small apparent magnitude?

Accepted Answer

Bright and far away

Question 4

Stars on the left of the H-R Diagram would be _____ than stars on the right.

Accepted Answer

Hotter

Question 5

About how old is the Sun?

Accepted Answer

4.6 billion years

Question 6

What layer of the Sun do we "see"

Accepted Answer

Photosphere

Question 7

What is the relationship between a star's mass and it's lifespan?

Accepted Answer

Inverse

Question 8

How could a star have a high apparent magnitude and small absolute magnitude

Accepted Answer

Dim and close

Question 9

What stops a star from collapsing?

Accepted Answer

Gas pressure from fusion

Question 10

What can spectroscopy tell us?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 11

What was the world like during the Maunder Minimum?

Accepted Answer

Cooler

Question 12

How will the Sun end its life?

Accepted Answer

White Dwarf

Question 13

What element is currently being created in the Sun?

Accepted Answer

Helium

Question 14

What type of star is in balance between fusion gas pressure and gravity?

Accepted Answer

Main Sequence Star

Question 15

Light from the Moon is usually....

Accepted Answer

Not Doppler shifted

Question 16

What was the Maunder Minimum

Accepted Answer

Time with less sunspots

Question 17

A closer star would have a _______ shift due to seasons in our night sky.

Accepted Answer

Bigger

Question 18

Why does a black hole have so little volume?

Accepted Answer

Gravity is winning

Question 19

What type of weather would we get with a low amount of sunspots?

Accepted Answer

Colder

Question 20

What is this shift called?

Accepted Answer

Parallax Effect

Question 21

What makes something "a star"?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear Fusion

Question 22

Stars on the bottom of the H-R Diagram are ______ than stars on the top.

Accepted Answer

Dimmer

Questions 22