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2. What is the EM Spectrum
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3. What part of the EM spectrum can we see
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4. Which EM radiation has the highest energy?

5. Which EM radiation has the lowest energy?

6. What is a photon, and its energy depends on what property?

7. What is spectroscopy and what property does it depend on?

8. Which type of spectrum is produced when white light passes through a cool gas at low pressure?

9. Which type of spectrum looks like an uninterrupted band of color?

10. Which type of spectrum is produced when light is passed through hot gas under low pressure?

11. Why do we use spectroscopy to study stars? Why does it help?

12. What kind of Doppler Shift occurs when an object moves closer to earth?

13. Who was the first scientist to use telescopes and what kind of telescope was used?

14. Which type of telescope uses a concave mirror?

15. What are the three properties of all optical telescopes?

16. What is the major disadvantage of refracting telescopes?

17. What is the part of the sun that is the visible surface called?

18. What is the thin red rim around the sun seen during a total solar eclipse called?

19. What is the hottest layer of the sun called?

20. Which features of the sun look like huge cloudlike arches?

21. What are the numerous, relatively bright markings on the sun’s photosphere called?

22. What is the most well known space telescope named?

23. What is a sunspot and how does its temperature compare to the surrounding photosphere?

24. What regions of the earth will see an aurora?

25. From what part of the sun does solar wind originate?

26. What process produces energy from the sun and what is its “fuel” source?