Unit 4-5 Review

During a star’s life cycle, stars can be charted on the H-R Diagram by ____________?

• color

• brightness

• temperature

• All of the above

________ is a force that causes dust particles to stick together in a nebula.

• nuclear fusion

• hydrogen

• gravity

• friction

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

Which category of star is our Sun located in?

• supergiant

• main sequence

• white dwarf

• giant

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Which of the following is an accurate model of how the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?

• Sun and Moon orbit Earth

• Earth and Moon orbit Sun

• Earth orbits the Sun and the Moon orbits Earth

• The Moon controls everything and the Minions!

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Lightyear is used by scientists to measure what?

• energy

• time

• magnitude

• distance

The category of stars that contains the most stars in the universe is_________?

• Main sequence

• supergiant

• White dwarf

• Black dwarf

When finding the brightness of stars, why can the apparent magnitude be inaccurate?

• it may not be brighter compared to another star but instead just closer

• it only shows the brightness of stars too far away for humans to detect

• it doesn't exist

• the scale is messed up

Our galaxy has an asteroid belt which is like a disk, a Kuiper Belt which is like a donut and an ________________?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The point at which an object finds the balance between the mass or the center of their masses is called the ________________.

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Which planet is NOT one of the "Gas Giants"?

• Uranus

• Venus

• Neptune

• Jupiter