What are the four characteristics used to classify stars?
100
The Sun is located on the edge of the Orion Arm in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
100
Radio waves, Microwaves, Infrared Light, Visible Light, Ultraviolet Rays, X-rays, and Gamma Rays.
What are the 7 wavelengths of the EM Spectrum?
100
This term represents the distance that light can travel in one year.
What is a light year?
100
Big Bang, Creationism, Solar Nebular
What are the three theories of the origin of the universe?
200
Nebula, Protostar, Main Sequence, Red Giant, Planetary Nebula, White Dwarf, Black Dwarf
What is the life cycle of a medium sized star (the Sun)?
200
Core, Radiative Zone, Convective Zone, Photosphere, Chromosphere, and Corona.
What are the six layers of the Sun?
200
The range of electromagnetic waves found throughout the universe.
What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
200
Light can travel this distance in kilometers in one year.
What is 9.46 trillion km?
200
This theory states that the universe began 14 billion years ago when there was a sudden explosion and expansion of matter and energy from a single point.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
300
Emissions, Reflection, Planetary, and Dark/Absorption
What are the four types of nebulae?
300
The Sun's composition is made up primarily of these two gases.
What is hydrogen and helium?
300
This wavelength separates into colors when sent through a prism.
What is visible light?
300
Light travels at 300,000 km/s.
What is the speed of light?
300
Creationism states that the universe was created by this, while the Solar Nebular Theory claims the universe came from this.
What is God/Supernatural Being and a Nebula?
400
This type of galaxy tends to have younger stars.
What is an irregular galaxy?
400
This changing feature of the Sun occurs when clouds of gas extend into the corona through loops and jets.
What is a prominence?
400
The number of complete waves that pass a given point within a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
400
Light can travel this distance in kilometers in one year.
What is 9.46 trillion km?
400
The red shift of galaxies has led astronomers to believe that the universe is doing this.
What is still expanding?
500
Located on this model are four quadrants that tell whether a star is hot, cool, bright or dim.
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) Diagram?
500
Nuclear fusion occurs inside the core of a star when this happens.
What is two hydrogen atoms fuse together to form a helium atom?
500
Astronomers use this instrument to allow them to see the different colors of light given off by a star or to identify the elements within a star's composition.
What is a spectroscope?
500
When a star is 37 light years away from Earth, it will take this long for light to travel from that star to Earth.
What is 37 years?
500
This is the change in apparent frequency of a wave that is displayed when objects either move away from each other or move closer together.