Vocabulary
A ball of gas in space that produces its own light and heat.
What is a star?
This star is the closest to Earth, from the picture Mrs. Kahl shows.
What is A?
This is the star that is the closest to Earth.
What is the Sun?
This star, from the picture Mrs. Kahl is showing us, is the farthest away.
What is Wolf 359?
I change shape but never disappear. I can be solid, liquid, or gas, and I’m found everywhere.
What is water?
The star at the center of the solar system that gives off heat and light to Earth; its major gravity keeps the solar system in orbit.
What is the Sun?
This star is the farthest from Earth, from the picture Mrs. Kahl shows.
What is B?
Because of this, stars that are smaller and dimmer may appear larger and brighter to us on Earth.
What is apparent brightness?
Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and you'll fill in the last name.
Who is Kate?
The distance light can travel, when moving in a straight line, in 1 year.
What is light-year?
Looking at the table Mrs. Kahl has, this star appears the biggest and brightest.
What is Luhman 16?
Stars are balls of this substance and it makes them able to produce their own heat and light.
What is gas?
I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I’m not a plant, but I need water.
What is fire?
How close an object is to another object?
What is proximity?
Looking at the table Mrs. Kahl has, this star appears the smallest and dimmest.
What is EZ Aquarii
This is the special unit of distance used to measure how far the Sun is from Earth.
What is light-minute?
What is, it is the smallest star compared to the others?
This has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile.
What is a clock?
The brightness of a star perceived by an observer on Earth.
What is apparent brightness?
This is the rank, of the stars from the table Mrs. Kahl has, from which stars appear the brightest to dimmest.
What is Luhman 16, Sirius, Ross 258, and EZ Aquarii?
This is what the Sun gives off to Earth.
What is heat and light?
The reason the previous answers in this column are correct.
What is, Wolf 359 is the smallest star compared to the others, which shows that it is the farthest away because of apparent brightness?
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more.
What is, your name?