Sun and Other Stars Vocabulary Quiz

1. A device used to show what stars are visible at any given time of year.

• Solar Flare

• Planisphere

• Telescope

• Rigel

A huge telescope in space launched in 2009 that is searching for planets outside our solar system.

• Antares

• Planisphere

• Sirius

• Kepler Space Telescope

1. A burst of high energy radiation from the sun that can travel to Earth and interfere with cell phone reception and satellite communications.

• Star

• Betelgeuse

• Light Year

• Solar Flare

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

1. A reddish star that is 700 times larger than our sun. It is one of the largest known stars and is about 600 light years away from us. 

• Antares

• Sirius

• Rigel

• Betelgeuse

1. is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion. It's 40,000 times brighter than our sun and 864 light years away.

• Betelgeuse

• Sirius

• Rigel

• Solar Flare

1. The brightest star in the night sky. It is also 500,000 times further from us than the sun.

• Light Year

• Sirius

• Antares

• Rigel

1. An area around a star that is approximately the right distance to support liquid water on the surface of a planet.

• Planisphere

• Sirius

• Habitable Zone

• Solar Flare

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

1. It is a reddish star about 1000 times bigger than the sun and more than 600 light years away. 

• Antares

• Betelgeuse

• Rigel

• Sirius

is the distance light can travel in one year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.

• Kepler Space Telescope

• Solar Flare

• Antares

• Light Year

An exploding ball of burning gas held together by gravity.

• Light Year

• Rigel

• Star

• Solar Flare

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3