Exploring the Cosmos - Class Test 3 - Galaxies and Large Scale Structure
1. Two stars, A and B, have the same intrinsic brightness. The distance to A is two-thirds of the distance to B. Compared to B, A will appear to be
two-thirds as bright as B.
1.5 times brighter than B.
2.25 (or 9/4) times brighter than B.
as bright as B.
2. The Great Wall is
an unusually dense concentration of stars, gas and dust in a nearby spiral arm of our galaxy.
a dense concentration of galaxies in the nearby Virgo cluster.
a mechanism that explains the formation of the density waves that cause the creation of new stars in a spiral galaxy.
a dense concentration of galaxies that stretches across much of the visible universe.
3. What two observable properties of a Cepheid variable are directly related to one another?
Its mass and its distance.
The period between its peaks of brightness and its distance.
Its luminosity and its mass.
The period between its peaks of brightness and its luminosity.
4. Which of the following terms does not refer to one of the major galaxy classes?
Elliptical
Barred Spiral
Barred Elliptical
Spiral
5. Which of the following conditions can be responsible for the creation of an irregular galaxy?
Continuous inflow of atomic Hydrogen from outside the galaxy
Collision of two galaxies
A super-massive black hole in the centre of the galaxy
A quasar in the centre of the galaxy
6. Which of the following characteristics is true for elliptical Galaxies?
Elliptical galaxies often rotate fast.
In elliptical galaxies there is very little active star formation.
Lots of interstellar medium is present in elliptical galaxies.
Elliptical galaxies mainly feature Population I stars.
7. An S0 galaxy can evolve into which of the following galaxy types?
Sc
Sa
SBb
Galaxies cannot evolve from one type into another
8. What two observable properties of a Cepheid variable are directly related to one another?
The period between its peaks of brightness and its luminosity.
Its luminosity and its mass.
The period between its peaks of brightness and its distance.
Its mass and its distance.
9. What can cause a galactic fountain?
Winds and jets from newly-formed protostars.
Multiple supernovae occurring together.
A supernova occurring in the halo.
The combined effect of spiral density waves.
10. Quasars are seen to be unusual because they are very
compact distant galaxies with a large red shift that have many bright O type stars that makes them very luminous.
small stars with an extremely low luminosity because their mass is so small the almost failed to become stars.
small bright objects whose large red shift indicates that they are very distant.
bright stars near the centre of our galaxy whose light is very red-shifted by the intense gravitational field from the super-massive black hole at the centre.
11. A Seyfert galaxy is a
large elliptical galaxy with jets of matter that are ejected at high speed from its centre.
disc shaped galaxy with a central bulge, little gas and dust and a low rate of generation of new stars.
spiral galaxy whose nucleus is a very strong emitter of radio waves and sometimes X-rays.
spiral galaxy with a high rate of creation of new stars.
12. Elliptical galaxies are believed to have been formed by
matter that collected round a very massive black hole.
the collapse of a very large spiral galaxy.
the very rapid collapse of a super-massive cloud of dust and gas.
the merger of two or more elliptical or other types of galaxies.
13. The "Local Group" of galaxies
contains galaxies that are spread in a volume that is nearly 10 million light years in diameter.
consists of about 200 galaxies.
contains the galaxies of the Virgo cluster.
has our Galaxy as one of the smaller members.
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