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Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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Class
Date
1.
How far away are the most distance stars?
a)
hundreds of light years
b)
thousands of light years
c)
millions of light years
d)
billions of light years
2.
Scientists organize stars by their _____
a)
age and size
b)
age and density
c)
color and density
d)
color and size
3.
Stars glow because they create energy through _____
a)
nuclear fusion
b)
radiation
c)
combustion
d)
chemical reactions
4.
Stars die once they burn through all of the _____ in their core
a)
helium
b)
hydrogen
c)
iron
d)
carbon
5.
Stars that produce less energy glow _____
a)
blue
b)
red
c)
yellow
d)
white
6.
The very hottest stars in the universe glow _____
a)
blue-green
b)
red-purple
c)
blue-white
d)
green-white
7.
Our Sun has a temperature right in the middle, and is a perfect _____
a)
white hot
b)
mellow yellow
c)
fiery red
d)
mango orange
8.
How many Jupiters could fit inside our Sun?
a)
about a dozen
b)
about a hundred
c)
about a thousand
d)
about a million
9.
If the largest known star was in our solar system, it would extend past the orbit of _____
a)
Mars
b)
Saturn
c)
Jupiter
d)
Neptune
10.
Which constellation has two body parts that are made from totally different kinds of stars?
a)
Aquarius
b)
Cygnus
c)
Orion
d)
Ursa Major
11.
Which red supergiant makes up the right shoulder (or armpit) of Orion?
a)
Rigel
b)
Polaris
c)
Betelgeuse
d)
Vega
12.
Rigel has much greater true brightness, or _____, than Betelgeuse
a)
shinyness
b)
luminosity
c)
glowiness
d)
fluorescence
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