constellations
A group of stars that form a picture of a person or animal with stories or myths behind them.
Constellations
Halleys comet comes by Earth every _____ Called a periodic comet
76 years
What are the two water biomes?
Marine and Freshwater
The ultimate end state for the core of a high mass star.
Black hole
Which Biome has very little vegetation with hot days and cool nights;
Deserts
What do we call the stars which are always at the top of the sky and can be seen year round:
Circumpolar or Zenith
Comets are mainly composed of :
Dust and ice
Biomes are groups of land and water ecosystems with similar _______ , _____________ and ________
Animals, precipitation and temperature.
Supermassive black hole — Sagittarius A* is found in where?
Milky way galaxy
Objects that hit Earth’s surface, leaves craters.
Meteorites
On a star map, what do we call the area where the constellations rise and fall.
Horizon
Pieces of rock floating in space:
Meteoroids
Biome which is very cold, has the most snow.
Taiga (Boreal forest)
Who 1st predicted black holes in the theory of relativity:
Albert Einstein
Planet with the most moons:
Jupiter
What star was used by sailors to find their way before ships had technology.
North star
Shooting stars are called:
Meteorites
Biome with few plants and animals with year roun permafrost.
Tundra
_____________ stars are thought to form by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion.
Neutron stars
Planet with the most number of rings:
Saturn
What is the other name for the North Star?
Polaris
When does a meteor have a tail?
When near a heat source like the Sun.
Biome with trees change color and lose leaves. (The Biome we live in)
Deciduous forest
At the end of a main sequence star like our Sun, what is left behind is a __________ or_______ dwarf.
neutron star or a white dwarf
Name 2 constellations that are always visible in the night sky:
Cassiopeia, Ursa major Ursa minor