Stars practice

What category on the H-R diagram has the majority or the most stars?

• Super giants

• White Dwarfs

• Giants

• Main Sequence

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

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

• False

• True

Which property of a star is the brightness of a star at a standard distance?

• Apparent (magnitude) brightness

• Absolute (magnitude) brightness

• Luminosity

• Size of the star

All stars are formed from a  __________?

• giant

• black hole

• white dwarf

• nebula

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Our sun is average-sized and average temperature.

• False

• True

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Very hot stars are what color? 

• Blue

• Yellow

• Red

• Orange

Star R and S both have the same luminosity of 100, if Star S is 10 ly farther from Earth which star has the highest apparent magnitude?

• Star R

• Star S

• Both Star S and R

A plot of the surface temperatures of stars compared to their absolute magnitude is called

• an H-R diagram

• constellation map

• a graph

• spectrum.

What is the color of the coolest stars?

• blue

• yellow

• red

• orange

What H-R Category does our sun belong to?

• Supergiant

• Main sequence

• White dwarf

• black dwarf