astronomy
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| light-years are a measure of ... | show 🗑
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| show | light... one year
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| We use the method of __ to determine how far away stars are from Earth. | show 🗑
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| If a star moves a lot in the sky from winter to summer, it is ___ than other stars that did not move much. | show 🗑
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| show | gases
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| show | energy
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| show | color
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| show | When two atoms are smashed together to form a new kind of atom
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| show | hydrogen
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| show | size, temperature, luminosity (and color)
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| What class of star is our suN? | show 🗑
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| How bright a star looks from Earth depends on | show 🗑
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| What is absolute magnitude? | show 🗑
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| What is apparent magnitude? | show 🗑
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| show | bigger
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| show | O B A F G K M
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| In stars, the gas ___ undergoes fusion to become ___. | show 🗑
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| show | Medium
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| When our sun nears the end of its life, it will form a __ but not a __ or a __. | show 🗑
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| What color are class K stars? | show 🗑
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| show | Blue/White
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| show | Blue/White
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| What color are class M stars? | show 🗑
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| What color are class A stars? | show 🗑
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| What color are class G stars? | show 🗑
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| show | pale yellow
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| Our solar system is a ___ system. | show 🗑
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| What is an eclipsing binary? | show 🗑
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| What 2 kinds of evidence do we have that a star is a binary system, even if we can't see the 2nd star? | show 🗑
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| show | 40 billion is the best estimate we have now
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| In a binary system, when one star's gravity affects the other and makes it move back and forth, this is called... | show 🗑
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| show | billions, if not trillions
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| show | The milky way
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| What shape is the milky way galaxy? | show 🗑
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| show | Andromeda, it's spiral shaped
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| show | Alpha Centauri <- this is not on your test
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| show | meteor
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| What is an asteroid? | show 🗑
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| What is a meteoroid? | show 🗑
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| show | A meteoroid that has entered Earth's atmosphere
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| A red giant will form either a ___ in large stars or a ___ in massive stars. | show 🗑
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| show | White dwarf ... black dwarf
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| What is a star explosion called? | show 🗑
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| What is a comet? | show 🗑
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| show | a space rock on Earth's surface
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| All stars start out as a ... | show 🗑
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| When the gases in a nebula stick together due to gravity, they form a... | show 🗑
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| show | fusion
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| show | contract..... "big crunch"
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| show | gravity
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| How old is our sun? | show 🗑
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| show | 10-15 billion years
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| show | expanding, 10-15 billion years
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| What is the most universally accepted theory of how the universe began? | show 🗑
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| show | That the galaxies that are farther away from the Milky Way, are moving away faster than close galaxies
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| The name for a galaxy with a black hole at its center is | show 🗑
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| The name for a neutron star that gives off radio waves is | show 🗑
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| What star is even more dense than white dwarfs? | show 🗑
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| Only the most massive stars become __ when they die. | show 🗑
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| What happens after a star is a giant or supergiant, depends on the star's ___. | show 🗑
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| show | Andromeda
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| What shape is the Andromeda galaxy? | show 🗑
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| What shape is the milky way galaxy? | show 🗑
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| What are the 3 shapes of galaxies? | show 🗑
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| Galaxies with very little dust in them, do not... | show 🗑
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| show | billions, if not trillions
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| show | The milky way
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| show | blue giants
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| What are the cool, bright stars called that are the end of a star's life cycle? | show 🗑
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| What are small, white, dim stars called? | show 🗑
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| show | main sequence
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| show | mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune
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| show | My very educated mother just served us nachos.
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