This is something you can observe about an object.
What is a property?
100
Stars look like small points of light because________.
What is because they are so far away?
100
This is how scientists classify, or group, stars.
What is by their properties (color, brightness, temperature, size)
100
This is a tool that is used to magnify objects.
What is a telescope?
100
A light year measures ______________.
What is distance light moves in one year.
200
This is how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
200
We can't see other stars during the day because ___________.
What is the light from the sun washes out the light from the other stars.
200
Color, brightness, and temperature are ________ of stars.
What are properties?
200
With a telescope, you can see more ________ than with your eyes alone.
What are stars?
200
A telescope collects more __________ than your eyes can.
What is light?
300
This is a glowing ball of hot gasses.
What is a star?
300
The __________ looks much larger than other stars because it is closer to Earth than other stars.
What is the Sun?
300
This is an acronym we can use to remember colors.
What is ROY G. BIV?
300
Look through a hand lens is similar to looking through a telescope at night because _______________.
What is it allows you to see more detail?
300
When we look at a star that is 3 light years away, we are seeing it as it appeared ______ years ago.
What is 3?
400
This is the amount of light that reaches your eye from an object.
What is brightness?
400
We see fewer stars, usually only the brightest, in the cities because_______.
What is streetlights and buildings wash out most of the starlight?
400
Over time, the sun will become cooler. I can infer that the color of the sun will ________________.
What is change from yellow to red?
400
A telescope can change the appearance of an object by _____________ and _______________.
What is making the object look closer and bigger.
400
It is better to build an observatory high on a mountain rather than lower down because____________.
What is the higher your altitude, the fewer clouds, fewer lights from the city?
500
A tool that magnifies objects and makes them look closer and bigger.
What is a telescope?
500
You can see the sun during the day because _____________.
What is during the day, the Earth faces the sun.
500
Temperature and color are important properties of a star. We know that white or blue stars are __________ because they are hotter and give off the most ___________ for their size.
What are brighter and energy?
500
On a clear night, away from the city, I can see a lot of stars in the night sky. If I were to use a telescope, I might be able to see ______________.
What are more stars, light from gas and dust?
500
It is important for scientists to collaborate with each other because ________________ and ________________.
What is to compare findings, share ideas, discuss observations, learn from each other?