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Scientific Method
Models
Stars
Life Cycle of a Star
Random Nonsense
100
This is an educated guess about what will happen in an experiment.
What is the hypothesis?
100
This type of model is one that you can manipulate with your hands.
What is a physical model?
100
This star is a swollen version of a massive star as it starts to die.
What is a red supergiant?
100
Average stars become this when they start to die -- 200x the size of itself.
What is a red giant?
100
Not even nonsense can escape this.
What is a black hole?
200
A trainer gave a special protein shake to one bodybuilder and not the other. The one to not get the shake is considered this.
What is the control group?
200
This type of model is a collection of ideas or thoughts about a subject.
What is a mental model?
200
This is where stars are born.
What is a stellar nebula?
200
When nuclear fusion stops, a red supergiant becomes this - a cloud of dust and gas.
What is a supernova?
200
"A duck and horse become a chair" is a nonsense example of this.
What is nuclear fusion?
300
A gardener sprayed pesticides on one tomato plant and not the other. The pesticides are this kind of variable.
What is the independent variable?
300
Photographs are an example of this kind of model.
What is a physical model?
300
This is the type of star that the Sun will become at the end of it's life.
What is a black dwarf?
300
A small, hot, super bright star is known as this. Our Sun will become one of these on its way to the final stage of death.
What is a white dwarf?
300
If someone wanted weigh less, they should go to the moon because this is less there.
What is gravity?
400
Keri was playing in the park when she noticed that there were 6 trucks in the sandbox. She made this kind of observation.
What is a quantitative observation?
400
This model is the current one used to explain the formation of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
400
This is one of the final stages of death for a massive star that has an incredible gravitational pull.
What is a black hole?
400
These stars are at least 1.5 times bigger than our Sun and often form supernovae.
What are massive stars?
400
The hottest stars are this color.
What is purple/blue?
500
Jimmy hypothesizes that if he eats a bag of chips a day, then he will get more pimples. This is the dependent variable.
What is the amount of pimples?
500
This type of model is useful for predicting the occurrences of tornadoes or the impact of climate change.
What is a mathematical or computer model?
500
This is a very dense, very heavy star that forms when protons and electrons fuse.
What is a neutron star?
500
Once nuclear fusion stops, a red giant becomes this - a cloud of dust and gas where the Earth was likely formed.
What is a planetary nebula?
500
Astronomers use this to determine what a star is made of.
What is blackline spectrum?