How the Sun Works Assessment

In nuclear fusion, smaller atoms are forced together to create larger atoms. Does this process release, absorb or maintain energy?

• Absorb energy
• Maintain energy
• Release energy

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Do all stars make energy through fusion?

• Yes
• No
• Just our sun
• Only large stars

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When hydrogen is "fused" together on the Sun, what new element is created?

• Helium

• Carbon

• Oxygen

• Dihydrogen

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What does a spectroscope do?

• Create light

• Absorb light

• Separate light

• Spectate light

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Nuclear Fusion occurs inside stars and during a ________.

• black hole
• supernova
• white dwarf
• nebula

What elements make up the sun?

• Sodium

• Hydrogen

• Helium

• Lithium

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

When white light passes through a spectroscope, what is produced

• A full spectrum of light

• A spectrum of bright colors

• A spectrum of dark colors

• A spectrum of primary colors

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When a spectroscope views a gas cloud, it sees

• Absorption lines

• Emission lines

• A full spectrum

• No light

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In large stars, after all the hydrogen has fused into helium, the star will recollapse and restart fusion to make larger elements. This will continue until ____ is created INSIDE the star.

• carbon

• oxygen

• sulfur

• iron

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Earth is a habitable planet. This is partly because

• It has two Suns.

• It has no bad weather.

• It is a good distance from the Sun.

• It is the closest planet to the Sun.

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