Astronomy
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| show | the action of rotating around an axis or center.
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| Revolution | show 🗑
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| Most Common Elements in the Universe | show 🗑
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| show | a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year
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| Waxing | show 🗑
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| Waning | show 🗑
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| Which side is the moon lit up on during the waxing phases? | show 🗑
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| show | Left sides
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| Be able to identify moon phases on a diagram | show 🗑
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| show | 27.5 days
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| How long does it take for the moon to go from new moon to full moon? | show 🗑
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| Terrestrial Planets | show 🗑
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| Gas Planets | show 🗑
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| Inner Planets | show 🗑
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| show | gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants Uranus and Neptune
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| show | a small rocky body orbiting the sun.
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| Asteroid Belts | show 🗑
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| show | a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, and appearing as a streak of light.
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| 3 Parts of a Comet | show 🗑
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| Which direction does the tail point? | show 🗑
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| What causes the tail of a comet? | show 🗑
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| show | visible surface of the Sun
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| Corona | show 🗑
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| Solar Wind | show 🗑
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| Sunspot | show 🗑
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| show | nuclear fusion
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| show | how bright a celestial object really is vs how bright a celestial object is to the human eye from Earth.
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| 90% of the stars on an H-R diagram are ______________ ______________ star | show 🗑
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| show | cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars
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| show | continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness
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| show | a very large star of high luminosity and low surface temperature
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| Red Supergiant | show 🗑
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| show | a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
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| show | a theoretical stellar remnant, specifically a white dwarf that has cooled sufficiently that it no longer emits significant heat or light.
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| show | a place where people or things, especially money, disappear without trace.
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| What causes stars to have different life cycles? | show 🗑
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| A protostar must start what process to be considered a star? | show 🗑
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| show | the galaxy that includes our Solar System
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| show | type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image
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| Spiral | show 🗑
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| show | have no shape
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| What is at the center of a galaxy? | show 🗑
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| Why are there 42 things to study on this page? | show 🗑
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