Vocabulary
What is a ball of hot, glowing gases?
Star
Three colors stars can be
red, blue, white, yellow, orange
The sun is the largest star
True or False?
False
The best time to use a telescope
daytime, nighttime, cloudy day or afternoon
nighttime
A tool that makes faraway objects seem larger
Telescope
These are the smallest stars
White Dwarfs
What kind of star is our sun?
Yellow dwarf
You think you discovered a new star! What do you do?
Share the discovery, tell no one, or tell only your mom
share the discovery!
The brightness of a star from our point of view.
actual, apparent, light years, or temperature?
Apparent brightness
The star that sailors and hikers use to guide them at night
Polaris/ the North star
The sun is a planet in our solar system
True or False?
False
Features of stars are brightness, size, and _______.
color
It describes a group of stars
What is a constellation?
All stars are bigger than the moon
True or False?
True
The sun provides light and _______ for
Earth
Heat
What increases when you look at the stars with a telescope?
distance, shape, color, or size?
size
It describes the make up of a star
What is composition?
Two stars have the same actual brightness and size. What would make one star appear brighter than the other?
One star is hotter, one star is farther away from Earth than the other, or one has more light energy
One star is farther away from Earth than the other.
How many times can Earth fit inside of the sun?
1 million
If four stars are the same size and temperature, why would one star look much brighter than the others?
One star is closer to Earth