Stars, galaxies, the Universe Quiz

What star category has the largest stars?

• Super giants
• White Dwarfs
• Giants
• Main Sequence

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Which measurement allows scientist to compare the brightness of stars?

• parallax
• absolute magnitude
• red shift
• corona

All stars begin as a __________?

• giant
• black hole
• white dwarf
• nebula

Very hot stars are what color? 

• Blue
• Yellow
• Red
• Orange

A plot of surface temperatures of stars against their absolute magnitude is called

• an H-R diagram
• constellation map
• a Cepheid variable
• spectrum.

Massive stars (between low-mass and very massive) eventually collapse into what final star remnant?

• Black holes
• Neutron stars
• White dwarfs
• Planetary nebulae

Low-mass stars eventually collapse into what final star remnant?

• Black holes
• Neutron stars
• White dwarfs
• Nebulae

All stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements during the main sequence stage, up to Iron (Fe).

• False
• True

Why won't our sun ever become a black hole?

• It is too massive
• It is too old
• It is too young
• It is too small

Our Galaxy is called the

• Mily Galaxy
• Milky Way Galaxy
• Andromeda Galaxy
• Pinwheel Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2