Stars
Comets
Auroras
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Field trip
100
What is the most common star?
What is a red dwarf
100
Name the two tails of a comet
1. Dust tail 2. Ion tail
100
True or False; when a solar system heads toward Earth, the magnetosphere doesn't block the storm
What is false.
100
What are gamma rays uses?
Treatment to cancer.
100
What is a coma?
What is a cloud of dust and gas that forms around a comet's nucleus due to solar heat
200
Name one way a black hole is created.
1. Supernova explosion 2. The mass of an object creates a jag in space time
200
What does the name 'comet' mean?
What is "hairy star"
200
What is the percent of oxygen in our atmosphere?
What is 21%
200
What are radio waves uses?
T.Vs, Radios, and Phones.
200
A set of papers used to keep track of test results and mission developments.
What are data logs.
300
How is a star created?
High temperature and pressure causing the atom to fuse together.
300
What type of comets orbit last longer than 200 years?
What is a long-period comet
300
What is the percent of Nitrogen in our atmosphere?
What is 78%
300
What are microwaves uses?
Cooking, and Doppler Radar.
300
An instrument used to obtain and record a spectrum, series of colors that is produced when light is spread out in order of wavelength, of an astronomical object.
What is a spectormeter.
400
How was the Sun formed?
Gas and dust from a nebula, high pressure and temperature.
400
What type of comets orbit last 200 years or less
What is a short-period comet
400
What gas is at .04% in our atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide
400
What are ultraviolet rays uses?
Blacklight, Tanning beds, Sterilization, and Sunburns.
400
What is a nucleus?
The solid part of a comet, made of ices and rock.
500
What will happen to our star at the end of it's lifetime
It will become a red supergiant and explode.
500
Name the three parts of a comet
1. Coma 2. Nucleus 3. Dust tail/ Ion tail
500
Name 3 gases in our atmosphere
What is hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
500
What is infared used for?
Heat sensors, Remote controls for tv.
500
A meeting time and place scheduled for two objects/people to meet
What is rendezvous