Stars
Vocabulary
Galaxies
Constellations
Miscellaneous
100
The star closest to planet Earth.
What is the Sun?
100
The distance light travels in one year.
What is a light year?
100
Earth is in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
100
Stars grouped in a pattern form this.
What is a constellation?
100
This is a point in space which has a strong force of gravity, and nothing can escape this point.
What is a black hole?
200
Gigantic balls of very hot gases the give off radiation.
What are stars?
200
The area where new stars form in a cloud of gas and dust.
What is a nebula?
200
A huge system of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
200
Constellations appear to move in the sky because of this.
What is stars are moving, rotation and revolution of the Earth?
200
This is the hemisphere we live in.
What is the northern hemisphere.
300
This happens when a star's core runs out of fuel and begins to shrink, then a massive explosion occurs.
What is a supernova?
300
This is the half of Earth south of the equator.
What is the southern hemisphere?
300
This type of galaxy has wispy arms and a bulging middle.
What is a spiral galaxy?
300
True or False: All constellations can be seen by everyone on Earth at different points during the year.
What is false?
300
Earth's spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
400
Sunspots appear on this layer of the sun.
What is the Photosphere?
400
These are dark spots on the surface of the sun that appear darker because they are cooler than the surrounding area.
What are sunspots?
400
This galaxy has no specific shape to it.
What is an irregular galaxy?
400
This constellation contains Polaris, the North Star.
What is Ursa Minor, or the Little Dipper?
400
Earth moving around the sun.
What is a revolution?
500
These three things determine how bright stars appear.
What are distance from Earth, size of star, temperature (or color)?
500
These are the layers of the Sun.
What are the core, the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona?
500
This galaxy is round or oval shaped, similar to a football-shape.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
500
Constellations contain a variety of stars that differ in temperature, which we can see by these colors.
What are white or blue white (hottest), orange/yellow, or red (coolest temperatures)?
500
These are the brightest objects in the sky.
What are the Sun, the Moon, and Venus (the Morning Star)?
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