Astrophysics
Terms
Theorems/Laws
Phases/Layers/Models
Uh Oh Stinky
100
0.000001234 in scientific notation
What is 1.234 x 10^-6
100
____________ motion is the time it takes to get from one noon to the next.
What is diurnal?
100
What is this an example of?
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
100
If the new moon is our starting point (1st phase), this is the 6th phase in the cycle.
What is waning gibbous?
100
Teenage girls can't do this.
What is "even?"
200
You are on the rooftop of a building and there's no way down. You need to get to the rooftop of the next building over but there's no way to do so besides jumping. To achieve this you must jump at an angle of 25 degrees and the horizontal distance between your building and the other building is 13 feet. How far do you need to jump? (round to nearest hundredth)
What is 14.34 feet?
200
These are the two main purposes of constellations.
What are navigation and farming?
200
In a light bulb, the chemical energy of batteries is converted into electrical energy, which is converted into light and heat energy is an example of
What is the conservation of mass and energy?
200
This model could not explain the phenomena of retrograde motion.
What is geocentric?
200
This word commonly is defined as life.
What is "ball?"
300
Suppose there is a sun with a luminosity of 4.22 x 10^21 Watts and a mass of 8.03 x 10^27 kg. How efficiently does this sun generate energy?
What is 5.26 x 10^-7 J?
300
This is the layer of the Sun that emits the radiation that we see and is considered the "surface" of the Sun.
What is the photosphere?
300
This has the fastest speed known in our understanding of the universe.
What is the speed of light?
300
These are the three products you create when you fuse two protons together.
What are positron, deuteron, and neutrino?
300
It's your last chance to have a smoking hot body.
What is cremation?
400
Suppose we have 3.56 kg of matter. The maximum amount of energy this amount of mass can create is
What is 3.204 x 10^17 J?
400
This is the critical distance from the center of a black hole at which the escape speed from an object would be equal to the speed of light.
What is the Schwarzchild radius?
400
Throwing a baseball will spin faster than throwing a long stick. This is an example of
What is the conservation of angular momentum?
400
These are the two possible outcomes of a Type II Supernova.
What are neutron stars and blackholes?
400
In alphabetical order, the three spokesmen of rice krispies.
Who are Krackle, Pop, and Snap?
500
Suppose Elijah is on a planet of mass 4.81 x 10^19 kg and a radius of 2.11 x 10^7 m. The escape speed to get off the surface of this planet is
What is 1.349 x 10^5 m/s (or 134,937.58 m/s)?
500
The theoretical stretching of an object that encounters extreme differences in gravitation forces defines this phenomenon.
What is spaghettification?
500
This is the second to last step in the scientific method.
What is Data Analysis?
500
These are the three values that are required to completely describe a blackhole's appearance and interaction with the rest of the universe.
What are mass, charge, and spin?
500
What character makes Elmo hate life?
Who is Rocco?