Stars Vocabulary
Galaxy Vocabulary
Vocabulary and Questions
Star Questions 1
Star Questions 2
100
Brightness of a star seen from earth
What is apparent magnitude
100
the visual magnitude an observer would record if the asteroid were placed
What is absolute magnitude
100
A large, reddish star star of high luminosity and low surface temperature.
What is red giant
100
How can you tell by rankings which star is the brightest?
What is a magnitude scale
100
How color indicates the temperature of a star
What is if the star is blue then the star is hot, but if its red it's cool!
200
A group of stars that look like a ball
What is global clusters
200
The theory that the universe began with a tremendous explosion
What is the big bang theory
200
A small, hot, dim star thatis leftover center of an old star.
What is white dwarf
200
How do scientists classify stars?
What is color, temperature, and light
200
Two ways the scientists calculate the age of the universe
What is (a) by looking for the oldest stars; and (b) by measuring the rate of expansion of the universe and extrapolating back to the Big Bang.
300
Have a bulge at the center and spiral arms
What is spiral galaxies
300
Large groups of stars, dust, and gases
What is galaxies
300
A scientist can identify a star's composition by looking at _______.
What is its continuous spectrum
300
The structure of the universe
What is a large and unimaginable expanse of dust, gas, stars, clouds, galaxies, and life.
300
*Bonus: Mr. Aman's favorite meteorologist! (Extra 100 points)
What is James Spann
400
A gigantic explosion in which a massive star collapses
What is supernova
400
An object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity
What is black hole
400
Galaxies get older and stop forming stars if the universe ____.
What is expands forever
400
How stars at different stages in their life cycle appear on the H-R diagram
What is HR diagram tells us how stars age and how one kind transforms itself into another.
400
the band of color produced when white light passes through a prism
What is a spectrum
500
Study of the orgin, structor, or future of the universe
What is cosmology
500
If a neutron star is spinning
What is pulsar
500
The majority of stars in our galaxy are ____ and ____ stars.
What is dwarf and binary stars
500
The difference between the apparent motion and the actual motion of the stars.
What is apparent motion is what the motion seems to be from a person on earth watching point of view and actual motion is what it is actually moving!
500
a region of the sky that contains a recognizable star pattern used for space purposes!
What is constellations
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