Stellar Evolution Vocab Quiz

Process by which many nuclei (the centers of atoms) combine to make larger one (which is a different element). The result of this process is the release of a lot of energy.

• Nebula

• Nuclear Fission

• Nuclear Fusion

• Pulsar

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Cloud of dust or matter

• Red Giant

• Nebula

• Binary Star System

• Black hole

The force by which a planet or other body draws objects towards its center

• Gravitational Force

• Supernova

• Red Giant

• Nuclear Fission

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

A dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution when no hydrogen remains in the core to fuel nuclear fusion.

• White Dwarf

• Pulsar

• Red Giant

• Neutron Star

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Formed when a low-mass star has exhausted all its central nuclear fuel and lost its outer layers as a planetary nebula decaying atomic nucleus

• White Dwarf

• Red Giant

• Neutron Star

• Supernova

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Two stars orbiting a common center of mass

• Binary Star System

• Supernova

• White Dwarf

• Red Giant

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass

• Supernova

• White Dwarf

• Red Giant

• Neutron Star

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Celestial object with a small radius and very high density, composed of mostly neutrons formed by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion

• Supernova

• White Dwarf

• Neutron Star

• Red Giant

A rapidly rotating neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation at rates of up to one thousand pulses per second

• White Dwarf

• Supernova

• Black Hole

• Pulsar

Most violent explosions in the universe, with some releasing more energy in 10 seconds than what the sun will emit in its entire 10 billion year lifetime.

• Pulsar

• Black Hole

• Red Giant

• Gamma Ray Burst