Lives of Stars
Star Systems and Galaxies
This Year in Review 1
This Year in Review 2
100
The earliest stage of a star's life
What is a protostar
100
A star system with two stars
What is a binary star system.
100
Write 10,000 in scientific notation
What is 1x10^4
100
What is the distance that light travels in a year
What is light-year.
200
The length of a star's life depends on what?
What is its mass.
200
A "wobbly" star could mean
What is a star is a binary star.
200
A star's brightness as seen from Earth.
What is apparent brightness.
200
The apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from different places
What is a parallax.
300
**DAILY DOUBLE** After a star runs out of fuel, it becomes what?
What is a white dwarf, neutron star, black hole, or a black dwarf.
300
The larger groupings of a star
What is a star cluster
300
The brightness of a star if it were a standard distance from Earth.
What is absolute brightness.
300
Name the planets in order from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
400
An object with gravity so strong that nothing not even light can escape.
What is a black hole.
400
**DAILY DOUBLE** Name a type of galaxy
What is spiral, elliptical, irregular, and quasars.
400
A device t hat breaks light into colors and produces an image of a spectrum.
What is a spectrograph.
400
What is the center of a geocentric model?
What is Earth.
500
Depending on its mass, the star becomes what after it expands?
What is a red giant or a supergiant.
500
When a supergiant runs out of fuel, it explodes and becomes
What is a supergiant.
500
Name a characteristic used to classify stars.
What is color, temperature, size, composition, and brightness.
500
What is the center of heliocentric model
What is the sun.
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