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Vocabulary
Brightness
Temperature
Color
Size
100
Telescope
What is: A tool that magnifies objects and makes them look closer and bigger?
100
The reason we can't see most stars during the day.
What is: The sun is so bright?
100
How hot or cold something is.
What is: Temperature?
100
The color of the sun.
What is: Yellow
100
The reason the sun looks so much bigger than the other stars.
What is: Because it is closer to us than the other stars?
200
Star
What is: A glowing ball of hot gases?
200
The brightest star we see in our solar system.
What is: The sun?
200
A property you can use to tell which stars are colder than others.
What is: color?
200
A clue to how hot a star is.
What is: Its color?
200
Because most stars are so far away from us.
What is: Why do stars seem so small when you look at them with your eyes alone?
300
Property
What is: Something about an object you can observe?
300
Something that might cause a decrease in a the brightness of a star as we look at it.
What is: Pollution, other bright lights, layers of the atmosphere etc.?
300
One property, other than color that is affected by a stars temperature.
What is; Brightness?
300
The color of the coolest stars.
What is: Red?
300
It uses lenses to magnify and collects more light than your eyes can alone.
What is: How does a telescope work?
400
Brightness
What is: The amount of light an object gives off?
400
The reason some stars seem to twinkle.
What are: Their light gets bent as it passes through layers of the atmosphere, making it look like it is sparkling?
400
Something else in nature that you can compare a stars color and temperature to.
What is: Fire?
400
The difference between blue stars and red stars.
What is: Red stars have a cooler surface temerature than blue stars?
400
The word used to describe the size of the sun.
What is: Medium.
500
Radiant Energy
What is: The combination of light and heat energy that comes from the sun?
500
One reason one star in the sky might be brighter than another.
What is: 1. It might give off more light/energy? 2. It might be closer to the earth? 3. It might be larger?
500
1. Blue 2. Red 3. White 4. Yellow
What is; The order of the star colors from coolest to hottest?
500
A star named Betelgeuse is hotter than the sun. This is its color.
What is; Red?
500
A property of light that might change over a stars life cycle.
What is: 1. color? 2. size? 3. brightness? 4. temperature?