The Universe
The universe is _____________ years old
What is 14 billion years old?
All stars are born in a ______________.
What is a nebula?
The center of our solar system.
What is the sun?
What is gravity?
How can you tell the temperature of a star?
What is by it's color
The universe started with the ______________.
What is the Big Bang?
Our sun is a _________________ star.
What is a small-medium sized yellow dwarf star?
(Double Jeopardy)
The number of planets in the solar system?
What is eight?
How many galaxies are there in the Universe?
What is Billions
What would need to occur before a cloud of dust becomes a star?
What is Nuclear Fusion
Is the universe expanding or shrinking?
What is expanding?
When yellow dwarf's die, they explode in a ______________.
What is a supernova?
(Double Jeopardy)
Something the first four planets have in common?
What is rocky, small, no rings, few moons?
(100 points for each answer over 1 feature)
How may stars are there is in a Galaxy?
What is Billions
What is Apparent Luminosity?
What is the How Bright a star appears form Earth?
The universe made up of _________.
What is Space, Time, Matter, and Energy
Yellow Dwarf's 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?
What is Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular
What is Absolute Brightness?
What is the actual brightness of a star
The Universe is measured in______?
What is Light-Years
Giant stars leave behind a _______________ when they die and explode.
What is black hole or neutron star?
(Triple Jeopardy)
These two forces keep everything in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity and inertia?
(Double Jeopardy)
What are Galaxies made of?
What is Millions of stars, interstellar gas, and dust
(Double Jeopardy)
What is used to show the relationship between a star's temperature and its luminosity.
What is The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram or H-R Diagram
(Double Jeopardy)