The Universe
The name of the galaxy that we live in.
What is The Milky Way?
All stars are born in a ______________.
What is a nebula?
The star at the center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
The name for a grouping of stars that form a picture.
What is a constellation?
One of the famous stars that we talked about in science class this quarter.
What are the sun, Sirius A, Sirius B, Rigel, Betelgeuse, ?
The universe started with ______________.
What is God (or creation)?
Our sun is a _________________ star.
What is a main-sequence or a yellow dwarf star?
The number of planets in the solar system.
What is eight?
The term for the amount of time it takes light to travel somewhere in one calendar year.
What is a light year?
The diagram used to compare stars.
What is the H-R Diagram?
Do secular scientists believe that the universe expanding or shrinking?
What is expanding?
When yellow dwarf's die, they explode in a ______________.
What is a supernova?
Something the first four planets have in common.
What is rocky, small, no rings, few moons?
The group of constellations that are associated with certain dates in a calendar year.
What are the zodiac constellations?
The name of the process in stars where Hydrogen combines to create Helium.
What is nuclear fusion?
The universe is _____________ years old.
What is between 6,000-10,000 years old?
Main-sequence stars leave behind a hot dense core when they die. It is called a _______________.
What is white dwarf?
Something the last four planets have in common.
What is giant in size, mostly gas, large rings, many moons?
The largest type of star.
What is a red giant?
One of the famous astronomers talked about in your science chapter.
Who are Ptolemy, Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Hipparchus, Aristotle, Brahe, and Galileo?
Astronomy is the study of _______________.
What is the universe?
Giant stars leave behind a _______________ when they die and explode.
What is black hole or neutron star?
The planet with the largest gravity in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The color of the hottest stars.
What is blue?
The three traits that the H-R Diagram uses to compare stars.
What are luminosity, surface temperature, and absolute magnitude?