Stellar Evolution/Nebular Theory

These types of stars fuse hydrogen into helium for most of their lives

• A Super Red Giant Star

• A Main Sequence Star

• A Red Giant Star

• A White Dwarf Star

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

What physical property is most responsible for the fate of a star during its life?

• Temperature

• Mass

• Color

• Distance

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

The planets in our solar system are thought to have come from

• Clumps of rocky material that existed between the stars

• The same cloud of gas and dust that formed the sun

• A fast spinning young sun that flung them out over time

• the sun capturing them as they wandered into the sun's gravitational path.

The ______is between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter.

• Kuiper belt

• Asteroid belt

• Pluto

• Jovian planets

Why are the inner planets smaller?

• they are more dense than the outer planets

• they are the same size as the outer planets

• There was less less material to make them -- (the nebula had lots of gases)

• rock is more compact than gases

What is the most popular hypothesis of the formation of the moon? 

• The moon passed very close to the earth and was caught in its gravitational pull.
• The moon formed the same time as the earth and is made up of all the same materials as the earth

• The moon formed when a small planet smashed into the newly formed earth sending debris into space which formed the moon.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Eventually, our Sun will run out of ____ and become a ____.

• hydrogen, red dwarf
• hydrogen, red giant
• hydrogen, blue giant
• helium, white dwarf

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Main sequence stars are made primarily of which elements?

• Hydrogen only

• Helium and Carbon

• Carbon and Iron

• Hydrogen and Helium

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

After a supernova explosion, if the core leftover is very massive it will become a ...

• black hole

• white dwarf

• neutron star

• supergiant

A star will remain on the main sequence as long as it can balance the inward force of _________ with the outward force of _____________.

• gravity, luminosity

• gravity, nuclear fusion

• nuclear fusion, gravity

• nuclear fusion, temperature