Show:
Galaxies
Stars
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Demonstrations
Potpourri
100
It's the name of the galaxy in which we live?
What is The Milky Way?
100
True or false: The sun is a planet.
False! The sun is a star.
100
True or False: The electromagnetic spectrum is ordered from short wavelengths to long.
False! It is ordered from long wavelengths to short.
100
True or False: In the flame lab, our hypothesis was wrong.
False! Our hypothesis was correct.
100
This is the distance light travels in one year.
What is a light-year?
200
This galaxy type is disc shaped with mostly red and yellow stars.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
200
All stars are formed from this cloud of dust and gas.
What is a nebula?
200
True or False: The electromagnetic spectrum is ordered from low energy to high energy.
True.
200
Scientists place these in orbit around the planet so they are not affected by light pollution or the Earth's atmosphere.
What are space observatories, or telescopes?
200
A star's brightness as seen from Earth.
What is apparent brightness?
300
This galaxy type has a central area with arms leading out from it.
What is a spiral galaxy?
300
When a star runs out of hydrogen, it begins to die and burns this color.
What is red?
300
The types of waves used to broadcast information around the world.
What are radio waves?
300
By observing the color of the flames in our flame lab, we were able to determine this quality.
What is temperature or energy level?
300
A pulsar is another name for this type of star.
What is a neutron star?
400
This galaxy type has had its shape distorted by gravitational pull.
What is an irregular galaxy?
400
Black holes only form from this type of star.
What is a large mass star?
400
ROYGBIV are all examples of this type of wave.
What are visible waves?
400
During the telescope demonstration, the pepper in the glass represented this.
What are objects in space- i.e. meteors, asteroids, planets, space junk etc?
400
The name of the diagram used to characterize stars.
What is an H-R diagram, or Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
500
This galaxy is the Milky Way’s next-door-neighbor.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
500
The name of the process going on within a star that opposes gravity.
What is nuclear fusion?
500
The part of an atom from which gamma rays gets their energy.
What are electrons or the outer part?
500
True or False: During the star gazing homework at 9:00pm, the moon had risen in the east.
False. The moon did not rise that evening until around 10:00pm.
500
This is the apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from a different place.
What is parallax?