Planets
Galaxies
Constellations and stars
Evolution of Stars
Sun
100
This is the order of the Inner planets coming away from the Sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
100
The galaxy that our solar system is a part of.
What is the Milky Way?
100
This is what a group of stars that form a pattern is called.
What is a constellation?
100
This is the first stage of a star, when it is only a cloud of dust and gas.
What is a Nebula?
100
Cooler, dark areas on the sun's surface are called this
What are Sunspots?
200
This is the order of the outer planets starting just past the Asteroid Belt.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
200
The most accepted scientific theory for the origin of the universe.
What is the Big Bang?
200
The hottest stars are this color and the coolest stars are this color.
What is blue for hottest and red for coolest?
200
90% of all stars in space are in this stage.
What is Main Sequence?
200
These are explosions on the surface of the sun.
What are solar flares or prominences?
300
This compares the size of the inner planets to the size of the outer planets.
What is the inner planets are smaller and the outer planets are MUCH bigger!
300
The shape of the galaxy that we live in.
What is a spiral galaxy?
300
Constellations that are visible all year long because they appear to "circle" Polaris.
What is circumpolar?
300
This is the stage a low mass star moves in to when it uses up its supply of Hydrogen and expands in size.
What is a Giant?
300
In nuclear fusion in the core, this is being fused into this.
What is Hydrogen into Helium?
400
The number of moons is greater for these planets. (Inner or outer)
What is the outer planets?
400
If a galaxy is not spiral or elliptical, it is classified in to this group.
What is Irregular?
400
A star has this kind of magnitude if it appears brighter just because it is closer to the Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
400
When a high mass star collapses violently and explodes it is called this.
What is a Supernova?
400
The lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere-where light is produced.
What is the photosphere?
500
The reason that Venus has higher temperatures than Mercury!
What is the dense atmosphere that holds in the heat. (the greenhouse effect)
500
They think that this is in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
What is a supermassive black hole?
500
Stars that show a red shift in spectrum demonstrate that they are moving this direction.
What is away from us?
500
In the largest of the high mass stars, this is the final stage.
What is a Black Hole?
500
This is the layer of the sun's atmosphere above the photosphere.
What is the chromosphere?
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