The Sun and Other Stars Vocabulary

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Science
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6th Grade
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Angela Tracy
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An exploding ball of burning gas held
together by gravity.
Star
Light Year
Buster
Habitable Zone
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-2
NGSS.MS-PS2-4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How far light can travel in 1 year. Light
travels at 186,000 miles each second.
Light Year
Betelgeuse
Habitable Zone
Sirius
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A blue-white star in the constellation Orion.
It is also one of the brightest stars in the
night sky. It's 40,000 times brighter than our
sun but it is also 864 light years away.
Mrs. Marshman
Betelgeuse
Habitable Zone
Rigel
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An area around a star that is approximately
the right distance to support liquid water on
the surface of a planet.
Light Year
Betelgeuse
Habitable Zone
Sirius
Tags
NGSS.HS-ESS2-7
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
It is a reddish star about 1000 times bigger
than the sun and more than 600 light years
away. It is also the ninth-brightest star in
the night sky and second-brightest in the
constellation of Orion.
Light Year
Betelgeuse
Habitable Zone
Sirius
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.
It is the brightest star in the constellation
Scorpius.
Antares
Solar Flare
Kepler Space Telescope
Planisphere
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A burst of high energy radiation made by
the sun that can travel to Earth and interfere
with cell phone reception and satellite
communications.
Mr. Holmquist
Solar Flare
Kepler Space Telescope
Planisphere
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
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