Life Cycle of a Star

What is a Nebula?

• A cloud of gas and dust

• A small, dim, hot star

• A large, bright, cool star

• A turkey

Our sun is known as a middle-aged, stable star. Also known as a ____________________.

• Gas Giant

• Nebula

• Pulsar

• Main Sequence Star

What is a Red Giant?

• A large, bright, cool star

• A small, bright, cool star

• A burnt out white dwarf star

• A young star that has just started the fusion of hydrogen

What is a White Dwarf?

• A small, dim, hot star

• A giant, bright, cool star

• A turkey

• A collapsed star so dense that light cannot escape.

A burnt out white dwarf star is known as a __________________.

• Main Sequence Star

• Black Dwarf

• Red Giant

• Protostar

This type of star forms when a massive star collapses.

• Black Hole

• Protostar

• Neutron Star

• Pulsar

What is a Black Hole?

• A collapsed star so dense that light does not escape its gravitational pull.

• An explosion in which some layers of a star are blown away.

• A large, bright, cool star

• A small, dim, hot star

An explosion in which some of the outer layers of a very massive star are blown away

• Nebula

• Main Sequence

• Protostar

• Supernova

All stars begin their life as a

• Main Sequence

• Nebula

• Protostar

• Black Dwarf

The life cycles of stars are determined by their:

• mass (size)

• color

• distance from Earth

• how bright they are