Understanding Stellar Evolution

Understanding Stellar Evolution

Assessment

Interactive Video

Physics

9th - 10th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Jennifer Brown

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What determines the way a star ends its life?

Its color

Its distance from Earth

Its mass

Its temperature

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the final stage of a low mass star?

Black hole

Neutron star

White dwarf

Red giant

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happens to a star's particles when it becomes a black hole?

They expand

They are ejected into space

They are squeezed together tightly

They become gaseous

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What particles primarily make up a neutron star?

Photons

Neutrons

Protons

Electrons

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What principle prevents neutrons in a neutron star from being squeezed indefinitely?

Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Newton's Third Law

Pauli Exclusion Principle

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

At what mass does a white dwarf become a neutron star?

1 solar mass

1.39 solar masses

2 solar masses

3 solar masses

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the Chandrasekhar limit?

The maximum mass of a neutron star

The minimum mass of a black hole

The maximum mass of a white dwarf

The minimum mass of a red giant

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