Show:
Constellations
Classifying Stars
Lives of Stars
Systems and Galaxies
The Great Unknown
100
Imaginary patterns of stars
What are constellations?
100
The characteristics used to classify stars (give me 3)
What are color, temperature, size, composition, and brightness?
100
When this process begins, a star is born
What is nuclear fusion?
100
Star systems that have 2 stars
What are binary stars?
100
A light-year
What is the distance that light travels in one year (bonus: is it a unit of time or distance?)
200
This hunter's belt is comprised of 3 stars and his shoulder is Betelgeuse
What is Orion?
200
This depends on both the size and temperature of a star
What is brightness?
200
All stars begin as this
What is a nebula?
200
A huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
What is a galaxy?
200
How bright a star looks from earth depends on these two things
What is its distance from earth and how bright the star truly is?
300
This zodiac sign is represented by a The Great Bear
What is Ursa Major?
300
A star's brightness as seen from earth
What is apparent brightness?
300
How long a star lives depends on this
What is its mass?
300
Distant, enormously bright objects in the universe
What are quasars?
300
Graph that shows the relation between the temperature and absolute brightness of stars
What is a Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram?
400
This zodiac sign is represented by a crab
What is cancer?
400
The brightness a star would have if it were at a standard distance from earth
What is absolute brightness?
400
An object with gravity so strong that nothing can escape
What is a black hole?
400
Where new stars form in our galaxy
What are the spiral arms?
400
A star becomes a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole
What happens when a star runs out of fuel?
500
A dragon makes up this constellation
What is Draco?
500
Parallax
What is the apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from places
500
The remains of high-mass stars (name 1)
What is either a neutron star or a black hole?
500
400 billion stars
What is the number of stars in the Milky Way?
500
(draw a picture of our galaxy on the board and show where our sun is within the galaxy)
Where is the sun in our galaxy?