5th grade star quiz

What does a star cycle depend on?

• A star cycle depends on gases like hygrogen

• A star cycle depends on food

• A star cycle depends on heat and light

• A star cycle depends on the temperature.

an object in space that produces its own energy, including heat and light

• white dwarf

• nebula

• star

• supernova

the distance light travels in a year

• star

• light year

• black hole

• supernova

any of the patterns that are formed by a group of stars in the night sky.

• supernova

• black hole

• nebula

• constellation

a huge cloud of gas and dust in space that is the first stage of star formation.

• star

• supernova

• white dwarf

• nebula

a star that can no longer turn helium into carbon; it cools and shrinks, becoming very small and dense.

• white dwarf

• supernova

• black hole

• light year

Order the stages that a star like the sun go through.

• nebula, protostar, a red giant, white dwarf, stars

• protostar, nebula, a red giant, stars, white dwarf

• nebula, protostar, stars, a red giant, white dwarf

• nebula, white dwarf, a red giant, stars, white dwarf

• protostar, nebula, white dwarf, red giant, stars

a star that has produced more energy than gravity can hold together and has exploded.

• light year

• white dwarf

• super nova

• black hole

What will eventually happen to larger stars? Larger stars will eventually _____________ as a __________or become a ___________

What happens to massive stars at the end of their life cycles? They ________and then they ​recreate. They become a ​black hole.

• explode
• shrink
• heat up
• recreate
• fall