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Our Solar System
Properties of Stars
Galaxies Life of a Star
Star Dust
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Name the 4 inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
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Describe why they are called the terrestrial planets.
What is they are small, dense, rocky surfaces? Or
What is they all have a crust, mantel and iron core?
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Name the 4 outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
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Describe the composition of the gas giants.
What is primarily hydrogen and helium?
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Describe the composition of a comet.
What is dirt and ice?
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Stellar distances are measured in …
What are light years?
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The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
gives surface temperature, color,
and…
What is absolute brightness?
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As the Earth moves the same star can be observed and the distance measured in
comparison to distant stars. This is called…
What is the parallax?
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List these stars in order from
coolest to hottest.
What is A, B, D, C?
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• Which is the brighter star Betelgeuse or a white dwarf…
What is Betelgeuse?
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The name of our galaxy and its shape…
What is the Milky Way and spiral?
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Galaxies are made of…(name 3 things)
What is gas, dust, stars, planets, moons, rocks?
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Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy. Name 2 other types of galaxies.
What is barred-spiral, elliptical, irregular?
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What is Hubble’s Law?
What is the galaxies farthest away are moving the fastest?
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One of two reasons we know the universe is expanding….
What is Hubble’s Law or Red Shift?
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When clouds of dust start out cold and gravity starts to compress them this nursery for a star is called a …
(Hint: no birth yet)
What is a Nebula?
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When there is equilibrium between the stellar fusion pushing out and the gravity pulling in the star is
called…(Hint: our sun is this type of star)
What is a main sequence?
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The core of this star is very hot and the helium starts to fuse into carbon as the star
swells larger.
What is a Red Giant?
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Sirius B is an example of this type of “retired” (dying) star which is very dense and the gravity isn’t working anymore.
What is a White Dwarf?
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When a massive star dies, it expands to 100 million times its size and explodes. This is
called…
What is a Supernova?
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Our sun is this type of star…
What is a main sequence star?
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The energy from a protostar is produced when ___________ is converted to
_________
What hydrogen and helium?
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The name of the giant telescope that has taken many wonderful photographs of
the universe
What is Hubble?
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When massively large stars die with a great explosion and such great a force of gravity that anything falling
into it, including e-m waves becomes trapped and light cannot escape..
What is a Black Hole?