Properties of Stars

What category on the H-R diagram has the majority or the most stars?

• Super giants
• White Dwarfs
• Giants
• Main Sequence

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Apparent (magnitude) brightness is affected by a star's distance from Earth.

• False
• True

Which property of a star is the brightness of a star at a standard distance?

• Apparent (magnitude) brightness
• Absolute (magnitude) brightness
• Luminosity
• Size of the star

Very hot stars are what color? 

• Blue
• Yellow
• Red
• Orange

A plot of the surface temperatures of stars compared to their absolute magnitude is called

• an H-R diagram
• constellation map
• a graph
• spectrum.

what is the absolute brightness of the sun?

• 100

• 1

• .001

• 1,000

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

What is the color of the coolest stars?

• blue
• yellow
• red
• orange

Put the stars in order from coolest to hottest.

• Blue, White, Yellow, Orange, Red
• Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Blue
• Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, White
• Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Where on the H-R diagram would you find the dimmest stars?

• At the top
• Giants
• At the bottom
• Main Sequence

This is the suns outer atmosphere

• Corona

• Chromosphere

• Photosphere

• Convection Zone