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CRIntSciUniverseVoca
CRIntegratedScienceUniverseVocabulary
Question | Answer |
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idea proposed to explain how/why something happens | theory |
applies to all situations all the time; cannot be disproven | law |
states that when the universe began all matter in the universe began close together and has expanded over time | Big Bang Theory |
process of the galaxies moving farther and farther apart | red shift |
group of billions of individual stars, star systems, star clusters, dust and gas all held together by gravity | galaxy |
is made up of gas, dust of most of the young stars it contains; has arms that spiral out from the center | spiral galaxy |
distance light will travel in one year | light year |
nuclei of two atoms combining to form a new nucleus with a larger mass | fusion |
star in which nuclear fusion is occurring | main sequence star |
stage of a star after it has burn up all of its fuel from the main sequence stage | red giant |
stage after red giant stage for low mass stars | white dwarf |
forms after a massive star reaches the end of its life and goes supernova; is very dense | neutron star |
forms when very massive stars collapse on themselves due to large amount of gravity | black hole |