EM Spectrum
Telescopes
Classifying Stars
Life Cycle of Stars
Potpourri
100
This type of electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength.
What are gamma rays?
100
A reflecting telescope uses these to collect light.
What are mirrors?
100
These are the three main characteristics used to classify star.
What are size, brightness, and temperature?
100
This is what determines how long a star will live.
What is its mass?
100
This is a light-year.
What is the distance light travels in a year?
200
This is the collective name for all wavelengths of radiation..
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
200
This is the first man to use a telescope to study the stars.
Who is Galileo?
200
This is how bright a star seems to be when looking from Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
200
This is a large cloud from which stars are formed.
What is a nebula?
200
This is what scientists use parallax for.
What is to measure the distance to nearby stars?
300
The color of visible light with the most energy.
What is violet? (or blue)
300
This is one of the advantages reflecting telescopes have over refracting telescopes.
What is lighter weight or no halo effect?
300
This is a chart that maps a stars temperature vs. its brightness.
What is a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
300
This is the universal force that forms a protostar out of gas and dust.
What is gravity?
300
This is a recognizable pattern within a constellation.
What is an asterism?
400
A prism breaks light up into these.
What are separate colors?
400
This is the definition of a telescope.
What is a tool that collects and focuses electromagnetic radiation (light) from distant objects?
400
This is the color of the coolest stars.
What is red?
400
This is what our sun will become at the end of its life cycle.
What is a white dwarf?
400
This is where most stars are on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
What is the main sequence?
500
This is why we can't see molecules with the naked eye.
What is they are smaller than the wavelength of visible light?
500
Scientists use telescopes to study this.
What is the universe?
500
These are the stars above the main sequence on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
What are giants and supergiants?
500
This is the process that makes a star "burn."
What is nuclear fusion?
500
These constellations never set below the horizon.
What are circumpolar constellations?
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