The Universe test questions - WJEC

1

What does this diagram show?

An emission spectrum with blue, green and red lines on a dark background.

2

What produces this type of diagram?

An absorption spectrum with black lines on the background of the visible light spectrum.

3

What is a continuous emission spectrum?

4

A police car has its siren on, and is travelling towards you. You listen to the sound. What do you notice?

5

A driver of a car on the same road as a police car with its siren on hears no difference in the pitch of the siren. Why is this?

6

A teacher swings a buzzer around in front of some students. The buzzer is emitting a sound. What will the students at points A and B hear?

Looking down from above at a teacher whirling a buzzer in an anti-clockwise direction. The teacher is facing a row of students. The row is labelled A on the left and B on the right.

7

Which of these galaxies is furthest away from Earth?

Three absorption spectra labelled: Galaxy 1, Galaxy 2 and Galaxy 3. The absorption lines emitted by galaxy 1 show the greatest red shift. The red shift in galaxies  2 and 3 are less than in galaxy 1.

8

What does this diagram show?

Two absorption line spectra for stars, one above the other. Arrows go from the upper one to the lower one showing that the black lines in the lower spectrum are further over to the right.

9

What does Hubble’s graph show?

A graph labelled How far the galaxy is and How fast it is moving away from us. There are red dots clustered along a straight line showing direct correlation.

10

What does Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) do?