Astr 1020 Final Exam |Actual Exam With 100% Verified Questions And Correct Answers|Excellent Scores

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Astr 1020 Final Exam |Actual Exam With
100% Verified Questions And Correct
Answers|Excellent Scores




What is the Milky Way in the sky? - CORRECT-ANSWER-The outline of the disk of
our Galaxy




Where in the Galaxy are globular clusters located? - CORRECT-ANSWER-Halo




Stars tend to form in the spiral arms of our Galaxy... - CORRECT-ANSWER-Because
the gas is denser there




The objects found above and below the plane of our Galaxy are generally... -
CORRECT-ANSWER-Older than disk objects




Which type of galaxy contains stars? - CORRECT-ANSWER-All of them


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Which type of galaxy forms through a merger? - CORRECT-ANSWER-Elliptical

Helium fusion results in production of? - CORRECT-ANSWER-Carbon




Galaxies are most spherical... - CORRECT-ANSWER-Elliptical




Cepheid importance? - CORRECT-ANSWER-"standard candles" for distance
measurements




Candidates for dark matter? - CORRECT-ANSWER-Brown dwarfs, Jupiter-size
objects, WIMPs, faint red stars




Not evidence for dark matter? - CORRECT-ANSWER-Expansion of the Universe




Halo - CORRECT-ANSWER-Outermost extent of our Galaxy, containing a sparse
distribution of stars and globular clusters in a more/less spherical distribution.



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