Stars

Why do other stars appear so much smaller than the sun?

• They are much smaller
• They are so far away
• They are not as bright
• They are dwarf stars

What color of star is the hottest?

• Blue
• Red
• Yellow
• Orange

What color of star is the coolest?

• Red
• Yellow
• Blue
• White

The color of the star tells us its 

• composition
• Temperature
• Luminosity 
• Mass

Our star is a 

• yellow/ large star
• yellow/ small star
• yellow/ medium star

Which statement describes stars from coolest to hottest?

• blue, white, red, orange
• white, yellow, orange, red
• orange, yellow, blue white
• red, orange, yellow, white, blue

The brightness of a star as it would be at a fixed distance from Earth

• light year

• absolute magnitude

• apparent magnitude

• parallax

What is magnitude?

• the process inside a star that produces the star's energy
• term used by scientists to describe a star's brightness
• star groupings in space
• the process inside a star that produces the star's energy

The brightness of a star we see from Earth is called

• absolute magnitude
• relative magnitude
• apparent magnitude
• obvious magnitude

Apparent (magnitude) brightness is affected by a star's distance from Earth.

• False
• True