Astronomy Star Quiz Winneconne MS
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| The color of a star depends on its | Temperature
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| What can a scientists learn about a star from its spectrum? | Its composition and temperature
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| Why do black lines appear on an absorption spectrum? | They show where less light is abosorbed by a star's atmosphere
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| What color are the hottest stars? | Blue
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| The brightness of a star at a distance of 32.6 light-years from Earth. | Absolute magnitude
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| The brightness of a star as it appears to an observer on Earth. | Apparent Magnitude
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| an apparent shift in an object's position when viewed from different locations | Parallax
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| The distance that light travels in one year. | light-year
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| The band of color produced when white light passes through a prism | spectrum
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| The H-R diagram shows the relationship of a star's surface temperature and its | absolute Magnitude
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| What objects are formed from the materials in the core of a supernova? | Black holes and neutron stars
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| What is the correct sequence of a star's life cycle? | main sequence, red giant, and white dwarf
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| How do new stars form? | From the material of old stars.
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| A small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old star | white dwarf
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| a gigantic explosion that causes the death of a large star | supernova
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| a star in which the electrons and protons have become neurons | neutron star
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| a star that expands and cools once it runs out of hydrogen | red giant
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| a spinning neutron star that emits rapid pulses of radio and optical energy | pulsar
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| a massive and dense object from which even light cannot escape its gravity | black hole
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