Chelsea Esposito Quiz

Chelsea Esposito

Quiz 2

1. Light is the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible.

2. Matter is that which occupies space and possesses rest mass.

3. Matter interacts with light by absorbing light energy and emitting light

energy.

4. The three types of spectra are continuous spectrum, light like the rainbow,

absorption line spectrum, dark lines on a continuous spectrum, and emission

line spectrum, which is mostly dark with no continuity.

5. Every kind of atom, ion, and molecule produces a unique set of spectral lines.

6. We can determine temperature from the spectrum of thermal radiation.

7. The Doppler effect tells us how fast an object is moving toward or away from

us.

8. We can see fainter objects and more detail than we can see by eye.

Specialized telescopes allow us to learn more than we could from visible light

alone.

9. They are above earth’s atmosphere and therefore not subject to light

pollution, atmospheric distortion, or atmospheric absorption of light.

10. It makes possible more powerful and more capable telescopes