Space Physics

What is the name of the gas/dust clouds that form stars?

• Nebulas
• Protostars 
• Supernova
• Neutron Star

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

What is the name of the explosion at the death of a massive star?

• Supergiant
• Supernova
• Black Hole
• Nebula

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

What determines the color of a star? 

• It's size
• It's temperature
• It's composition
• They are all the same color 

What fuel do stars use? 

• Oxygen
• Hydrogen
• Carbon
• Iron

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Larger stars (stars with more mass) have a longer life cycle. 

• True
• False

A relatively small, dense star at the end of its life cycle, which generates little or no energy and has contracted to its densest state.
What stage in the life cycle does this describe? 

• Black Hole
• Nebula
• White Dwarf
• Red Giant

In this stage, a star spends most of its life. Hydrogen is fused into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.

• nebula
• protostar
• main-sequence
• supergiant

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

At 10,000 degrees Celsius, hydrogen begins to change into helium and energy is released in a process called

• supernova
• pulsar
• nuclear fusion
• nuclear fission

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

a gigantic explosion that causes the death of a large star

• pulsar
• red giant 
• supernova
• black hole

a star that expands and cools once it runs out of hydrogen

• pulsar
• black hole
• red giant
• supernova

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3