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CHAPTER 15—THE MILKY WAY GALAXY Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Herschels grindstone and Kapteyns star system were too small because a. they did not count the brightest stars. b. they did not study the southern sky. c. they did not have large enough telescopes. d. they only observed stars in the disk of the galaxy and not the halo. e. they did not know about interstellar dust clouds. ____ 2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the stars of the disk component of our galaxy? a. circular orbits. b. randomly inclined orbits. c. higher metal abundance. d. young stars. e. star formation regions. ____ 3. A group of 10 to 100 stars that formed at the same time but are so widely scattered in space their mutual gravity cannot hold them together is called a. a globular cluster. b. an open cluster. c. an association d. a spherical component e. an accretion disk. ____ 4. Our galaxy is suspected to be surrounded by a galactic corona because the disk of the galaxy a. rotates faster than expected in its outer region. b. rotates more slowly than expected in its outer region. c. rotates faster than expected in its inner region. d. rotates more slowly than expected in its inner region. e. is much flatter than expected. ____ 5. Younger stars have more heavy elements because a. old stars destroy heavy elements as they age. b. young stars burn their nuclear fuels faster. c. heavy elements were made in previous generations of stars. d. all of these e. heavy elements havent had time to settle to the core of these younger stars. ____ 6. The first stars to form in our galaxy a. had circular orbits. b. had highly elliptical orbits. c. were population I stars. d. all had orbits in the same plane. e. formed the galactic clusters we see today. ____ 7. Good spiral tracers are all I. very old. II. very young III. very luminous IV. moving with large radial velo