Outer Planets
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Stars
Scientific Notation
100
Saturn's rings are composed of these two materials
What are ice and rock
100
Distance light travels in one year
What is Light-Year
100
Object with gravity so strong, not even light can escape
What is Black Hole
100
Graph used to show relationship between star's temperature and brightness
What is HR Diagram
100
Where does the decimal go when writing scientific notation
What is right after the first digit (1-9)
200
This storm on Jupiter is larger than the size of Earth
What is Great Red Spot
200
Star systems with two stars
What are Binary Stars
200
Star's brightness as seen from Earth
What is Apparent Brightness
200
More than 90 percent of stars fall under this category
What is Main Sequence
200
5.0 x 10^1
What is 50
300
This planet had a Great Dark Spot that went away
What is Neptune
300
Huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, gas, and dust bound by gravity
What is Galaxy
300
Galaxies with billions of stars but little gas and dust
What are Elliptical Galaxies
300
The hottest color of stars
What is Blue
300
When the exponent is negative; what direction do we move the decimal
What is left
400
Uranus' axis of rotation is tilted at an angle of this many degrees
What is 90 degrees
400
Apparent change in position of an object when looked at from different places
What is Parallax
400
Device that breaks light into colors and produces an image of the resulting spectrum
What is Spectrograph
400
The hottest and brightest stars are located here on the HR Diagram
What is Top Left
400
Write 0.00078 in scientific notation
What is 7.8 x 10^ -4
500
This planet's moon, Titan, is larger than Mercury
What is Saturn
500
Active young galaxies with huge black holes at their centers
What are Quasars
500
Star system in which one star blocks the light from another periodically
What is Eclipsing Binary
500
Star's size is directly related to this
What is Absolute Brightness
500
867200 in scientific notation
What is 8.672 x 10 ^ 5