Chapter 10 Stars Review

What is the term used to describe the brightness of a star?

• Variableness

• Parallax

• Redshift

• Magnitude

How is the measurement of a star's apparent movement over time known?

• Variableness

• Parallax

• Magnitude

• Redshift

Which stars are known as the largest and brightest?

• Neutron stars

• Giants

• Supergiants

• Supernovas

What is a star called when it flares up and becomes brighter than normal?

• Dwarf

• Supergiant

• Nebula

• Nova

What are stars called that regularly or repeatedly change in magnitude?

• Giants

• Blue stars

• Variable stars

• Pulsars

What is a neutron star that spins rapidly on its axis called?

• Pulsar

• Giant star

• Nova

• Red star

What is a cloud of dust, gases, and debris in space called?

• Dwarf

• Nebula

• Nova

• Super giant

Smaller stars, like our sun, are classified as what?

• Dwarf stars

• Pulsars

• Neutron stars

• Giants

What do scientists call the remains when a massive supergiant star collapses and disappears from space?

• Supernova

• Neutron star

• Black hole

• Pulsar

A group of stars that form a pattern is called a(n) ____.

• globular star cluster

• constellation

• open star cluster

• galaxy