Interstellar Medium

Stars are formed from big clouds of gas and dust is known as:

• dust cloud

• space fog

• neutron clouds

• nebula

The interstellar medium & nebula clouds are important because

• the Big Bang would've never occurred without them.

• black holes would never exist if the clouds were not there.

• they make up the space between the stars.

• they are regions for new star formation.

The interstellar medium is an area that is packed with dense clouds of star-forming material.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Vast areas filled with very cold gas & dust between stars is known as

• one big empty area in space.

• "cosmic fluff."

• the interstellar medium.

• the interstellar void.

How did the gas & dust between the stars & in all corners of the Universe get there?

• the result of planetary collisions & explosions

• by the gravitational attraction of supermassive black holes

• the Big Bang created it all

• the result of leftover remnants of previous stars

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Stars are formed in a large cloud of gas and dust called a

• cumulonimbus cloud
• nebula
• neutron star
• black hole

Nebula's are mixtures of gases and what?

• clouds
• stars
• tiny particles
• dust

______ is a force that causes dust particles to stick together in a nebula.

• nuclear fusion
• gravity
• hydrogen
• iron

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The Orion Nebula is a nearby star-forming region in which galaxy?

• Pegasus

• Andromeda

• IC 1101: a supergiant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster

• The Milky Way

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

"Nebula" is Latin for ___

• glow

• emmission

• gas

• cloud