The Universe
The universe is _____________ years old
What is between 6,000 and 10,000 years old?
All stars are born in a ______________.
What is a nebula?
The center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
The name for a grouping of stars that form a picture.
What is a constellation?
The name of the process in stars where Hydrogen combines to create Helium.
What is nuclear fusion?
The universe started with ______________.
What is God (or creation)?
Our sun is a _________________ star.
What is a small-medium sized yellow dwarf star?
The number of planets in the solar system.
What is eight?
The term for the amount of time it takes light to travel somewhere in one calendar year.
What is a light year?
The diagram used to compare stars.
What is the H-R Diagram?
Is it believed that the universe expanding or shrinking?
What is expanding?
When yellow dwarf's die, they explode in a ______________.
What is a supernova?
Something the first four planets have in common.
What is rocky, small, no rings, few moons?
The group of constellations that are associated with certain dates in a calendar year.
What are the zodiac constellations?
One of the famous stars that we talked about in science.
What are Sirius A, Rigel, Sirius B, Betelgeuse, Capella, Vega, Procyon B, or Pollux (maybe the sun)?
The universe is mostly _________. (Matter/Energy or Dark matter/Dark Energy)
What is dark matter and dark energy?
Yellow Dwarf's leave behind a hot dense core when they die. It is called a _______________.
What is white dwarf?
Something the last four planets have in common.
What is giant in size, mostly gas, large rings, many moons?
The planet with the largest gravity.
What is Jupiter?
One of the famous astronomers talked about in your science chapter.
Who are Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Hipparchus, Aristotle, Brahe, and Galileo?
Astronomy is the study of _______________.
What is the universe?
Giant stars leave behind a _______________ when they die and explode.
What is black hole or neutron star?
These two forces keep everything in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity and inertia?
In a mathematical equation, this is the symbol that represents a light year.
What is c?
The three traits that the H-R Diagram uses to compare stars.
What are luminosity, surface temperature, and absolute magnitude?