Cycle of Stars

Shown as number 1 on the diagram. All stars begin life in the same way forming from a cloud of dust and gas, also known as a ...

• Stellar nebula

• Planetary nebula

• Massive star

• Black hole

Shown as number 3, this type of star has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core and has begun

thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen in a shell surrounding the core. It is called ....

• Red giant

• Red super giant

• Massive star

• Neutron star

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Shown as number 4 on the diagram, this is what stars like the Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel.

• White dwarf

• Neutron star

• Red giant

• Super red giant

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Shown as number 7 on the diagram, this is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion. This event occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages when a massive star is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. It is known as a ....

• Supernova

• Stella nebula

• Big Bang

• Black hole

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Label the graphic organizer

a

b

c

d

e

f

main sequence

black hole

supernova

planetary nebula

white dwarf

black dwarf

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

A​ (a)   uses hydrogen as fuel. When it starts to burn out, it swells and becomes a ​ ​ (b)   . Then it shrinks and becomes a ​ (c)   . Some very large main sequence stars become​ ​ (d)   . This type of star is much larger than our sun. Some of these stars explode and become ​ (e)   .

• main sequence star

• red giant

• white dwarf

• supergiants

• supernovas

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

• Supergiant

• Supernova

• Black Hole

• Nebula

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Shown as number 8 on the diagram, these stars are the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses. They result from a supernova explosion. They are called ....

• Neutron stars

• White dwarfs

• Massive stars

• Red giants

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

A star's lifecycle is determined by its ....

• Mass

• Temperature

• Brightness

• Luminosity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Shown as number 2 on the diagram, this type of star forms from a stellar nebula and spends most of its time on the main sequence as an orange, yellow, or blue-white dwarf star. It is known as ...

• average star

• massive star

• main sequence star

• massive star

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3