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46 Cards in this Set
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Our solar system lyes within the_____ _____ |
Milkyway |
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A galaxy is a huge grouping of ____,_____,and___ held together by gravity |
Stars Planets Dust |
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The milky way got it's name from the hazy or_____ appearance |
milky |
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What are three types of galaxies |
spiral eliptical irregular |
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which type of galaxy is shaped like spheres and eggs? |
ELYPTICAL |
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Which galaxy has almost no gas or dust between stars |
Elyptical |
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Which galaxiesare faint without a definite shape? |
irregular |
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which galaxy has the fewer number of stars? |
irregular |
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Which Galaxies have arms of stars, gas, and dust that curve away from the center of the galaxy in a spiral pattern? |
Spiral |
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Which is an example of a spiral galaxy? |
Milky way |
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Most galaxies have super massive _____ _____ at their centers which are invisible |
Black holes |
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A Black hole may only be deterined by the ________ of matter around it. |
Behavior |
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Quasar is short for________, which means __________ |
Quasasteller seeming like a star |
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The Galaxy surrounding a quasar is often hard to see because quaser is______ |
brighter |
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The Universe consists of all ___,______,and_____ |
Space Matter energy |
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The milky way is just one of about ___________ galaxies |
100 billion |
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the ______ galaxy is closest ,large galaxy annits light of its stars take over______ years to reach _____ |
androamea 2 million earth |
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If a galaxy is moving tword earth, it will be called a _________ shift because the light shifts twards the blue end of the _______ |
blue Spectrum |
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in which galaxie do woe live in? |
Milkyway |
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Which is the only star in our solar system? |
Sun |
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the______ revolve around the sun. |
Planets |
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how are stars classified? |
Size brightness and distance color and temprature |
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What factors affect how bright a star appears from earth |
The heat of a star the brighter it is |
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How does the temprature of a star effect its color |
the hotter the brighter |
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what is a nebula? |
A cloud of dust |
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How does the sun produce energy? |
Hydrogen |
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How does The sun transfer energy from the core to the photosphere? |
Energy travels with radiation through the radiation zone and convection through the convection zone |
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How does solar wind affect earth |
It forms araura |
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The sun is our _____ ____ |
Local star |
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The sun provides light in the _____ ______ |
Solar system |
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The sun is the only ____ in the solar system |
star |
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The sun is larger than any of the _______ |
Planets |
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The sun contains____% of the mas in our solarsystem |
99.9 |
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Example of mass Earth has the mass of a _______ The sun has the mass of an ________ |
Sparrow Elephant |
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The sun consist of _______ _____ |
Hydrogen gas |
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Energy is produced when ______ in the suns interior turns into ______ |
hydrogen helium |
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What are the 6 layers of the sun? |
Core radiation zone convection zone photosphere chromosphere coronah |
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the center of the sun is called the______ |
core |
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the prosess of ______ releases energy that travels through th ecore by ________ |
Fusion Radation |
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What are the three outer layers of the sun? |
coronah chromosphere photosphere |
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Where visible light moves by radiation out into space from? |
Chromosphere |
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It takes________ for earths light to reach us |
8 minuts |
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Convection currens benieth the photosphere cause it to have a ___________ |
bumpy texture |
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The thin middle layre it the_______ and gives off a ______ light |
Chromosphere pinkish |
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The outermost layre is the _____ |
Coronan |
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You only see the coronas light during a total _______ of the ___ when the ____ blocks the much brighter light from the_________ |
Eclipse Sun moon photosphere |
