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The star nearest earth is?
Sun
After our sun burns it's supply of hydrogen it will become a?
Red Giant
A white dwarf is a former?
Low-mass star
A black hole is?
The remains of a giant collapse star
If the sun collapsed to become a black hole, earth's gravitational attract to it would be?
No difference
When a star collapses to become a black hole, it's mass?
Remains unchanged
The milky way is?
Spiral Galaxy
Compared to most stellar objects, quasars are more?
All of the above
The temperature of a star evidenced by its?
Color
The solar system consist of objects?
Gravitationally bound to the sun
The sun contains what percent of the solar system's mass?
Over 99%
If the earth were the size of a marble, the sun would be the size of a?
Baby elephant
The solar system is like an atom in that both?
Mainly empty space
The nebular theory is based upon the observation that the solar system?
Is highly ordered, indicating it is formed in a highly organized matter
The ivebular theory tells us that the solar system began to condense from a cloud of gas and dust about?
5 billion years ago
Why are the inner planets rocky?
They are formed from material with high melting points.
Why do the planets orbit in many different planets?
The planets orbit in the same planet
The mononuclear fusion in the sun?
Is the ultimate source of energy with life in the eath
The planet with a size most like earth is?
Venus
The planet closets in size to the sun?
Jupiter
The outermost layer of the sun?
Plasma
The solar wind blows in a direction?
Away from the sun
Evidence of the solar wind on earth is the?
Aurora Borealis
Which of the following is not a planet at all?
Pluto
The planet with the least density ?
Saturn
Each second, the burning sun mass?
decreases
Life is impossible on planet father from the sun than the earth because?
none of the above
The planets do not produce their own light because?
They do not produce nuclear reaction
A good definition of a planet is a body that orbits a star and is?
Both A & B
The fact that one side of the moon always faces the earth is evidence that while revolving about the earth, it?
Rotates about it's own access
When the sun passes between the moon and earth, we have the body that is in between the other two is the?
We would have meet our end
A small rock in the interplanetary space is called a?
Meteroid
Comets orbit about the?
Sun
The general direction of a comet's tail is?
Away from the sun
Asteroids are?
Debris left over from the plane-building
One light year is?
Distance lights travels in a year
A blue star is _____ than a red star?
Hotter