Constellations/Stars
The most well known constellation in the night sky.
What is Ursa Major or Ursa Minor?
What we use to find the distance to stars close to us.
What is Stellar Parallax?
The names of all the planets in our Solar System.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
When scientists said the Universe began?
What is 13.7 billion years ago?
________relationships occur when one variable increases as the other decreases.
What is inverse or indirect?
The total number of constellations in the night sky.
What is 88 constellations?
The distance of stars that we can use Stellar Parallax to determine how far away they are?
What is less than 12 light years away?
The correct order of the planets in our Solar System.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
The right conditions occur at precisely the right time to trigger a form of fundamental change.
What is Goldilocks Conditions?
The amount of energy (light) that a star emits from its surface.
What is Luminosity?
The two elements that make up the majority of stars.
What is Hydrogen and Helium?
The times of year we use to calculate Stellar Parallax.
What is 6 months difference?
The planet with the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
The ingredients and goldilocks conditions that need to be present for star formation.
What are hydrogen and gravity?
The magnitude of light of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.
What is apparent brightness?
The Big Dipper is an example of this, and its not a constellation.
What is an asterism?
The nearby star seems to apparently move a lot throughout the year in respect to the background stars...would it be close or far away from Earth.
What is relatively close?
The planet that was named after the winged god of travel.
What is Mercury?
As the distance between two objects increases this happens to the force of gravity.
What is decrease?
The name of the stars that Astronomers use to find luminosity of stars.
What is Cepheid Variable Stars?
The constellation that the North Star (Polaris) is a part of?
What is Ursa Minor?
The nearby star seems to apparently move a little throughout the year in respect to the background stars...would it be close or far away from Earth.
What is far away from Earth?
The hottest planet in our Solar System.
What is Venus?
The two things that need to increase within a star for fusion to occur. (Not including the amount of H present already)
What is pressure and temperature?
You see a 1000 W streetlamp on a distant hill. You measure the apparent brightness of the streetlamp to be 0.000001 W/m2. You need to find the distance....
What is .000001 = 1000/4 x pie x d squared