VOCABULARY 1
VOCABULARY 2
VOCABULARY 3
STARS & SUN 1
STARS & SUN 2
100
Area on the Sun’s surface that is cooler and less bright than surrounding areas.
What is Sunspot?
100
CHOOSE 2 OTHER GROUPS Group of stars that form a pattern in the sky.
BOTH GROUPS RECEIVE 100 POINTS IF YOU ARE CORRECT What is Constellations?
100
IF YOU MISS THIS QUESTION YOU LOSE 500 POINTS The distance light travels in one year, 9.5 trillion km/yr.
What is Light Year?
100
Late stage in the life cycle of a massive star that can eventually explode to form a supernova.
What is Super Giant?
100
The Sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into ____ atoms in its core.
What is Helium?
200
QUADRUPLE JEOPARDY Outermost, largest layer of the Sun’s atmosphere.
What is Corona?
200
Measure of the amount of light a star actually gives off.
What is Absolute Magnitude?
200
A star begins as a ____, a large cloud of gas and dust.
What is Nebula?
200
Two stars will orbit each other in this kind of star system.
What is Binary System?
200
The hottest stars in space are ____ in color.
What is blue (blue/white)?
300
2,000 to 10,000 kilometers above the photosphere.
What is Chromosphere?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY = 2 TIMES THE AMOUNT Measure of the amount of light from a star that is received on Earth.
What is Apparent Magnitude?
300
Large group of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.
What is Galaxy?
300
What color are the coldest stars.
What is Red?
300
The intense magnetic fields of sunspots cause arch like eruptions called ____.
What is Prominence?
400
The lowest layer of the Sun’s atmosphere.
What is Photosphere?
400
Late stage in the life cycle of a comparatively low-mass main sequence star.
What is White Dwarf?
400
TRIPLE JEOPARDY Final stage in the evolution of a very massive star.
What is Black hole?
400
The Sun produces energy by forming ____ in its core.
What is Helium?
400
The distances to nearby stars can be measured by using ____.
What is Parallax?
500
An explosion 13.7 billion years ago formed the universe.
What is Big Bang Theory?
500
The late stage of a star in its life cycle.
What is Giant?
500
Collapsed core of a supernova that can shrink to 20 km and contains only neutrons in the dense core.
What is Neutron Star?
500
Our Sun is considered average because its temperature and absolute magnitude place it in this range of the H-R diagram.
What is Main Sequence?
500
CHOOSE ONE OTHER GROUP A red shift in the spectrum of the light indicates the object is moving ____ you.
THEY RECEIVE 500 POINTS IF YOU ARE CORRECT What is object is moving away from you?
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