Ch6 - Material from Videos and Slides

What is your favorite planet?

What makes a star?

• the right hair do

• a funny Youtube account

• playing in a rock band

• one or two students a month a.k.a. STAR Student

• a bright object that gives off light by energy produced in its core.

What is one of the states of matter that has no define size or shape?

• gas

• solid

• liquid

All the sparkly things we see in the night sky are stars.

• True

• False

• Stars

• Planets

A ______ is a large, round object in space that travels around a star and has enough gravity to clear the space around it.

A _____ planet is a round object in space that travels around a star and has not cleared the space around it; smaller than a regular planet.

If you look up at night, and if you see an object that appears to move in relation to the other things in the sky around it, then its a planet. (TYPE either: True or False.)

If an object in space has intense color, it's most likely a planet, not a star.

• True

• False

• Can I type TRUE instead?

An ________ are chunks of rock and metal that orbit around the sun.

The asteroid belt is found between Neptune and Pluto, not Mars and Jupiter.

• False

• True