Distances in Space / Physical Properties of Stars

What are objects, such as planets, moons, and stars, that are located in space?

• Celestial Objects

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Light-Year

• Black Hole

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

What is a measure of how far apart two objects are?

• Distance

• Light Energy

• Speed of Light

• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

What is a continuum of all electromagnetic waves arranged according to frequency and wavelength, from radio waves to gamma radiation?

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

• Light-Year

• Black Hole

• Luminosity

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

What is a form of energy that exhibits wavelike behavior as it travels through space; part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

• Light Energy

• Speed of Light

• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

• Main Sequence

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

NGSS.HS-PS4-5

What is a unit of length equal to the distance that light travels through space in one year?

• Light-Year

• Black Hole

• Luminosity

• Nebula

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What is how fast light travels (i.e., 300,000 km/s); the maximum speed at which all matter and information in the universe can travel?

• Speed of Light

• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

• Main Sequence

• Star

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What is the remains of a star or other large object that collapsed under its own gravity to form a superdense object with gravity so strong that light cannot escape its pull?

• Black Hole

• Luminosity

• Nebula

• Supernova

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

What is a plot of the surface temperature (color) of stars vs. their luminosity (brightness)?

• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

• Main Sequence

• Star

• Celestial Objects

What is the intensity, or brightness, of light from a celestial body, which can be used to identify the body’s characteristics?

• Luminosity

• Nebula

• Supernova

• Distance

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

What is the category of stable stars in the middle developmental phases that plot along a continuous diagonal belt on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?

• Main Sequence

• Star

• Celestial Objects

• Electromagnetic Spectrum

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3