STARS "FLOCABULARY"

WHAT IS A a collapsing ball of gas and dust that will become a star, but does not yet produce energy through nuclear reactions.

• PROSTAR

• BLACK HOLE

• WHITE DWARF

may be small, but they're tough. Scientists think they could live for billions of years!

• RED DWARF

• BLACK DWARF

• YELLOW DWARF

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Floating clouds of space dust and hydrogen, they’re ___.

And if something irritates them,

Their life isn’t so regular.

• SUPER NOVA

• NEBULA

• MOON

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

You may think the sun is a ___ because it looks so big in the sky, but it's actually a dwarf star!

• SUPER NOVA

• GIANT STAR

• PLANET

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

It could turn into a ___, where it caves in,

And gravity pulls at everything,

And even the light can’t escape from its grasp, it’s mad strong.

• SUPER NOVA

• GIANT STAR

• BLACK HOLE

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

a star with a mass and luminosity larger than a dwarf star but smaller than a supergiant.

• WHITE DWARF

• GIANT STAR

• NEBULA

Before a star can produce its own energy, it's called a

• PROSTAR

• WHITE DWARF

• BLUE STAR

a large group of stars and matter held together by gravity.

• PLANET

• MOONS

• GALAXY

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The enormous star Anteres is a ___. It's one of the brightest stars in the sky!

• RED DWARF

• SUPER GIANT

• SUPER NOVA

the rare collapse and explosion of a dying star that produces a huge amount of energy. One may shine up to a billion times brighter than the sun for a brief time.

• SUPER NOVA

• NUCLEAR FISSION

• EARTH

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3