Kinds of Galaxies
Parts of Galaxies
Vocabulary
Ingredients
The Milkyway
100
Name the four galaxies.
What is an ellpitical, barred spiral, spiral, and elliptical galaxies?
100
A nucleus is...
What is a dense amount of stars in the center of a galaxy?
100
What is right: barrel, barred, barbed.
What is barred?
100
Although stars need hydrogen and helium to be built, they need one more thing.
What is dust/nebulas and space?
100
True or false: Milkyway chocolate bars are delicious!
What is true?
200
A galaxy in general is...
What is a collection of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
200
True or false: irregular galaxies have arms.
What is false?
200
Building blocks for stars
What is hydrogen and helium?
200
True or false: stars have only hydrogen and helium in them.
What is false because stars can make metals and other elements inside it?
200
This is why it's hard to find out what kind of galaxy we are.
What is you can't map out our galaxy because we are in it?
300
This is how you classify galaxies.
What is galaxies having three different types of shapes and sizes?
300
In the arm of spiral galaxies, the stars are...
What is young stars?
300
The definition of nebula is...
What is a cloud of gas and dust from an exploding star from which stars can form?
300
The first element is... followed by...
What is hydrogen followed by helium?
300
Our kind of galaxy is...
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
400
This galaxy is like a football when looked at sideways.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
400
How many arms barred spiral galaxies have.
What is two arms?
400
The difference between barred and regular spiral is...
What is spiral galaxies having multiple arms and barred spirals having only two?
400
Nuclear fusion is...
What is the process in which two or more atomic nuclei join together to form a single heavier nucleus?
400
The age of the Milkyway galaxy is...
What is 13.73 billion years old?
500
We live in the most common galaxy.
What is barred spiral?
500
These types of galaxies have an abundant amount of dust and this dust is bunched together which is called...
What is an ellpitical galaxy and nebulas?
500
The definition of astronomer.
What is classifying galaxies by shape?
500
True or false: stars need gravity to form
What is true because it holds the hydrogen and helium together until nuclear fusion?
500
This is why our galaxy is named the Milkyway.
What is a white haze?