WorksheetsSisters of the Sun Video Review
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 36mins
What is the “cost” for having all of our electric lights?
we lost the sun
we lost the stars
we lost a piece of ourselves
humanity has advanced
How much brighter are the Pleiades than our Sun?
5000X
5X
40X
10,000X
How did Annie Jump Cannon lose her hearing?
head injury as a child
scarlett fever
she was born deaf
polio disease
How many major categories of stars are there?
10
7
5
12
What did Henry Norris Russell discover about the Earth and the Sun? (Click all that apply!)
they are composed of roughly the same elements
they were made together when the galaxy formed
if you heated up the Earth, it would shine like the sun
the Earth once was part of the sun
What did scientists figure out about Annie Jump Cannon’s data? (Click ALL that apply!)
that it worked more for some stars than others
it only applied to stars that were normal size (not super giants)
it was more of a temperature scale than a classification system
she was wrong, and had to correct her thesis
Which stars in the universe are “newborns”?
ones in a nebula
ones in the Oort stage
ones without moons
ones in single sun solar system
What kind of star will our Sun be after it grows to 100 times its normal size?
White Giant
Blue Giant
Red Giant
HyperNebula
Name the brightest star in our sky.
Eta Carina
Alnilam
Sirius
Beetleguice
Flame Nebula
What is going to happen to the star in Orion’s belt (Alnilam) after it implodes?
White Dwarf
Neutron Star
Black Hole
Super Red Giant
Black Dwarf
What is created in the Sun when it fuses together hydrogen?
SuperNova
HyperNebula
Helium Atoms
Carbon Atoms
How long will it take Orion to catch up with the Pleiades?
10-20 million years
5-10 billion years
will always just fall short and never catch up
less than 1000 yrs
