Star Life Cycles Quiz

What "fuel" do stars use?

• Oxygen
• Carbon
• Hydrogen
• Iron

What color of star is the hottest?

• Blue
• Red
• Yellow
• White

A star will spend the majority of it's life as a ________.

• Red Giant
• Spernova
• Super Giant
• Main Sequence Star

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic used to classify stars?

• Temperature
• Color
• Shape
• Size

Smaller stars (stars with less mass) have a shorter life cycle.

• True
• False

According to the char provided below, which star is more massive than our Sun, but has a lower surface temperature?

• 40 Eridani B
• Sirius
• Aldebaran
• Barnard’s Star

Using the chart below, which characteristics best describe the star Betelgeuse?

• reddish orange with low luminosity and high surface temperature
• reddish orange with high luminosity and low surface temperature
• blue white with low luminosity and low surface temperature
• blue white with high luminosity and high surface temperature

The surface temperature of our Sun is:

• 5780 F
• 5780 C
• 5780 K
• 10,000 K

The diagram represents two possible sequences in the evolution of stars. Which table includes data that are characteristic of the surface temperature and luminosity of some white dwarf stars?

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

• Nebula
• Supergiant
• Supernova
• Black hole