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| What does the sun's gravitational force maintain in our solar system? |
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| Where does the energy that supports life on Earth come from? |
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| What type of energy is produced from the sun? |
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| What two gasses make up the sun? |
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| How is the energy produced from the sun? |
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| What is it called when there are energetic explosions on the surface of the sun? |
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| The ability of plants to create food and oxygen from sunlight |
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| H + He ionize to form what? |
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| What percent of the sun is H? |
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| What percent of the sun is He? |
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| What is the most abundant form of matter in the universe? |
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Describe the process of Nuclear Fusion?
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| H atoms collide and fuse with He atoms and release heat and light |
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| Where does Nuclear fusion take place? |
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15,000,000 degress Celcius
Innermost Layer
Where Nuclear Fusion Takes Place |
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| Describe the Radioactive Zone? |
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Where energy radiates
2,000,000 - 7,000,000 degrees Celcius |
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| Describe the convection zone? |
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Where convection currents occur?
2,000,000 degrees Celcius
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| Describe the photosphere? |
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Surface of the sun
Outermost atmosphere layer
6,000 degrees Celcius |
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Color sphere/ Atmosphere Layer
4,000 to 50,000 degrees Celcius
Middle Sphere |
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Least dense atmospheric layer
1,000,000 degrees Celcius |
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| Density decreases outward as you move through the sun's atmosphere causing what? |
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| What created visible reddish glow during a solar eclipse? |
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| Electrically charged particles that stream from the corona |
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| How cool are dark areas in the Photosphere? |
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| Suns rotation + Magnetic Fields = |
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| Movement of gas in the Convection Zone |
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| Is energy transfer between the convection zone to photosphere is faster or slower? |
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| How long is the Sun Spot Cycle? |
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| Clouds of gas create a loop along magnetic fields on sun spots lasting several hours or even weeks |
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| What is the temperature of a solar flare? |
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| 20,000,000 degrees Celcius |
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| How fast do Solar Flares travel? |
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| Thousands of Kilometers within minutes |
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| What is the most violent of Solar Disturbances? |
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| What are the Coronal Mass Ejections? |
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| Parts of the Corona thrown off into space causing geomagnetic storms |
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| Solar Wind + Earth's Magnetosphere = Excited Nitrogen and Oxygen in Earth's upper atmosphere = Colorful Lights |
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| Ulysses was the name of the probe who went on a five year mission to what? |
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| Aurora Australia takes place where? |
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| Aurora Borealis takes place where? |
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| Deuterium + Positron Neutrino |
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| A large celestial body that emits heat and light |
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| What are the most common elements in the stars? |
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| How do we learn about other stars? |
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| Gravity gathers particles in space and causes them to collide together and condense and begin the process of Nuclear Fusion |
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| What tool is used to study stars? |
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| Spectroscope / Spectrogram |
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| Where do stars originate? |
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| How is the composition of a star indicated? |
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| How is the temperature of a star indicated? |
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| What is the coolest star type? |
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Red Stars
3000 degrees celcius |
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| What is the hottest star type? |
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Blue
30,000 degrees celcius |
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| What star type has the most average temperature? |
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Medium
5,500 degrees celcius |
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| What is the smallest star type? |
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| Our sun is what star type in terms of size? |
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| What is the largest star type? |
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Super Massive
1,390,000 km x 1,000 |
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| Movement as an illusion based on Earth's movement |
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Axis rotation
Revolution around another star |
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| What is the doppler effect? |
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| The change in wavelength of stars as they move away from Earth |
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| Shorter wavelength of stars as they move towards Earth is called what? |
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| Longer wavelength of stars as they move away from Earth is called what? |
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| What is Apparent Magnitude? |
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| Brightness relative to Earth |
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| Absolute Magnitude is what? |
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| Brightness 32.6 light years away from Earth |
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| What is the Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram? |
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| A chart that compares stars based on color, temperature, absolute magnitude, and Luminosity. |
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9.46 trillion km in one year
The speed light travels in one year |
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| Stars that are close, can be determined by measuring what? |
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| An apparent shift in position of an object when viewed from different locations |
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| How is the mass of a star determined? |
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| By the mass of the nebula that formed it |
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| What determines a star's life cycle? |
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| What is the life cycle of low mass stars? |
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Nebula
Protostar
Main Sequence Star
White Dwarf |
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| What is the life cycle of a medium mass star? |
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Nebula
Protostar
Main Sequence Star
Red Giant
Planetary Nebula
White Dwarf |
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| What is the life cycle of a massive star? |
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Nebula
Protostar
Main Sequence Star
Red Super Giant
Supernova
Neutron Star or Blackhole |
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| Large-scale group of stars, gas and dust bound together by gravity |
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| What are the three types of galaxies? |
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Spiral
Elliptical
Irregular |
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| How are spiral galaxies made up of? |
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Nucleus or center of bright stars with flattened arms of stars that spiral around the nucleus containing young stars, gas, and dust.
Stars rotate around the center as the galaxy rotates. |
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| Home of the Solar System, a spiral galaxy |
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| What are Elliptical galaxies like? |
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| Flattened disks have few young stars, and very little gas and dust |
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| What are Irregular galaxies like? |
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| No shape, low mass, rich in gas and dust, least common galaxy. |
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Crab Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula |
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| Nebulas where Solar Systems form |
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| What happens when nebulas collapse? |
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| They become star clusters |
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| Loosely shaped, less stars, hundreds of stars |
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| Describe Globular Clusters? |
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| Spherical and contain thousands of stars up to 100,000 |
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| A group of stars that are organized in a recognizable pattern in 88 region that describe locations |
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| What are multiple-star systems? |
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| Stars that revolve around eachother; usually binary stars, but can be more than two. |
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