1. Which of these is not a wave?

A. Long waves
B. Ultraviolent Radiation
C. Red waves
D. Blue waves
2. What of the following is true for a protostar?
A. A celebrity/star before they get famous
B. The dying embers of a red dwarf
C. Protostars can never become black holes or neutron stars
D. It becomes a main sequence star
3. Sol is...
A. A red giant
B. A red dwarf
C. The fifth note in a musical scale
D. A yellow giant
4. Which of the following is not real?
A. Black Dwarf
B. Brown Dwarf
C. White Giant
D. Red Dwarf
5. Most of the stars on an H-R Diagram are part of the _____________ group.
A. Main Sequence
B. Intermediate Stars
C. Supergiant
D. White Dwarfs
E. Red Dwarfs
6. The ___________________ suggests that stars were formed from contracting spinning discs of matter
A. Supernova Theory
B. Big Bang Theory
C. Solar Nebula Theory
D. Solar Nebulae Theory
E. Byrnes Theorem
7. The Sun produces its own light and energy through ______________, which is a _______ reaction
A. Nuclear Fusion; Chemical
B. Nuclear Friction; Chemical
C. Nuclear Fission; Chemical
D. Nuclear Fusion; Nuclear
8. Spectral lines can be viewed with a...
A. Reflecting Lens
B. Refracting Lens
C. Tachistoscope
D. Spectroscope

9. Which of the following is valid? (There can be multiple correct answers)

A. The Sun is composed of plasma
B. The Sun rotates faster at its poles than the equator
C. The Sun rotates faster at its equator than the poles
D. The Sun is composed of hydrogen and helium
E. The Sun is yellow-white in colour
F. The Sun is orange in colour
G. The Sun is red in colour
10. An H-R Diagrams x-axis displays the stars...
A. Absolute Magnitude
B. Apparent Magnitude
C. Luminosity
D. Temperature
E. Mass/Size
11. As the Sun gets older, its core gets larger. Why?
A. Because as more hydrogen is consumed, mass is added to the core
B. Because more helium is produced, which sink down to its core
C. Because it expands through losing heat, eventually becoming a white dwarf
D. Because it contracts through losing heat, eventually becoming a white dwarf
12. What are the requirements for a star to become a black hole?
A. It must be related to a white hole
B. They must have a solar mass of 12 or greater
C. They must have a solar mass of 20 or greater
D. They must have a solar mass of 25 or greater
E. They must be blue or blue-white in colour
13. Electrons emit light through the _________ of _______________
A. Absorption; Tachyon Particles
B. Emission; Photons
C. Absorption; Photons
D. Emission; Tachyon Particles
14. How are spectral lines produced?
15. Sahrish enjoys looking through telescopes. What would she need to do in order to observe the infrared
spectrum? Why?
16. Explain how an aurora borealis occurs. Be sure to use and define the terms sunspot, solar wind, and
solar flare in your explanation.
17. Tanya is fond of rainbows, and uses a triangular prism to produce a rainbow. Explain how this occurs.
18. Varun is studying sources of renewable energy to power his windmill. Adrian suggests deriving energy
from solar wind. Why might listening to Adrian kill Varun?

19. Darsh is mystified by the movements of Jupiter, so his friend, Adi, gives him a telescope for Christmas. He
notices that the telescope does not have a sideways eyepiece, and assumes the telescope is defective.
What is going on?
20. Explain how the Sun produces its light and energy.
21. BONUS (5 points): What is a pulsar?

Answer Key
1. B
2. D
3. A/C
4. C
5. A
6. C
7. D
8. D
9. A/C/D
10. A
11. B
12. D
13. B
14. They are produced from excess or deficiency in photons when element gasses are charged.
15. She would need to place the telescope above the earths atmosphere, because the waves are absorbed
by the atmosphere before they reach the Earths surface.
16. An aurora borealis is caused by an excess of sunspots (strong magnetic fields on the Suns surface). This
causes a solar flare, in which streams of rapidly moving particles, called solar wind, is ejected into the
solar system. When this reaches the earths atmosphere, the highly charged electrons enter through
weak areas in the magnetic field, interacting with gaseous particles and emitting photons which
produce coloured light.
17. The prism refracts the narrow beam of light, causing it to exit at an different angle, which separates it
into distinct colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
18. Because solar wind is not a combination of solar and wind energy; it is a stream of rapidly moving
plasma emitted by the sun which is very lethal.
19. The telescope that Darsh received was a refracting telescope rather than a reflecting one.
20. The Sun produces its own light and energy through nuclear fusion, the process of combining hydrogen
nuclei. This is a nuclear reaction.
21. A neutron star that sends pulses towards the Earth.