Final Exam

1. What are the three major types of galaxies?
2. What is the frost line distance in the Solar System?
3. At which side of the frost line is Earth?
4. Which is the closest known star to the Sun?
5. Which is the closest known star with a terrestrial planet? 
6. What is a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
7. What are the two types of star clusters?
8. What are the life stages of a low-mass star?
9. What is Hubble's law?
10. Who won the Nobel Physics Prize in 2011?

1. 

A Big, Medium, and Little

B. Elliptical, Irregular, and Spiral

C. Terrestrial, and Jovian

2.  

A. Distance at which water freezes

B. Distance to Pluto

C. Distance to Mercury

3. 

A. Outside

B. At the frost line

C. Inside

4. 

A. Proxima Centauri

B. Alpha Centauri

C. Beta Centauri

5.

A. Proxima Centauri

B. Alpha Centauri

C. Beta Centauri

6.

A. Luminosity vs. Temperature

B. Mass vs. Radius

C. Temperature v.s Spectral Type

7.

A. Close and Open

B. Big and Small

C. Close and Far

8.

A. Main Sequence, Red Giant, and Planetary Nebula

B. Main Sequence, Supergiant, and Supernova

C. Main Sequence, Supergiant, and Quasar

9. 

A.Linear relation between velocity and distance

B. Quadratic relation between velocity and distance

C. Cubic relation between velocity and distance

10.

A. Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Alexei V. Filippenko

B. Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess

C. Serge Haroche, and David J. Wineland