Characteristics of Stars
Life Cycle of Stars
Star Systems and Galaxies
Our Expanding Universe
Miscellaneous
100
the distance light travels in a year
What is a light-year?
100
The length of a star's life is determined by its...
What is mass?
100
Eclipsing binary stars can sometimes be identified because
What is they become dimmer at regular intervals.
100
What does the Big Bang Theory?
What is describes the formation of the UNIVERSE.
100
The type of light humans can see is __________ light.
What is visible?
200
Parallax is used to determine a star's
What is distance from Earth?
200
A star is born when...
What is nuclear fusion starts.
200
What is a big difference between elliptical and spiral galaxies?
What is E=also no gas or dust between the stars
200
The solar system formed from...
What is a giant cloud of gas and dust.
200
When an object appears to change position when viewed from two different places
What is parallax
300
Names the five ways we categorize stars:
What is size, brightness, temperature, composition, color?
300
A supernova is the explosion of a dying...
What is high-mass star
300
Name our galaxy and what kind is it?
What is Milky Way, spiral
300
The force that tens to pull together the matter in stars is...
What is gravity.
300
We can figure out what a star is made of using a __________________.
What is spectrograph
400
Tell me about the colors of stars and what colors mean what? (example: the hottest star is this color, etc.)
What is blue/white-blue=hottest, yellow=medium, red=coolest
400
The most massive stars collapse to form _______________ when they die.
What is black holes?
400
A galaxy that doesn't have a regular shape is classified as an ______________ galaxy.
What is irregular?
400
What will happen to the universe in the future?
What is it will expand forever.
400
Telescopes work by collecting and focusing different forms of ___________________ radiation.
What is electromagnetic
500
The absolute brightness of a star depends on...
What is color and temperature
500
Depending on its mass, a star may live from about...
What is 10 Million to 200 Billion years.
500
According to Hubble's law, the farther away a galaxy is...
What is the faster it is moving away from us.
500
All stars begin as a ________.
What is nebula?
500
The electromagnetic spectrum consists of
What is all of the different types of electromagnetic waves.
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