8th grade Topic 10 Lesson 2 STARS
Across
- 2. stars that have ____________ use their fuel slowly and last longer
- 4. qualities such as color, temperature, brightness and chemical composition
- 5. the process by which atoms combine to form heavier atoms
- 6. to inspect something closely in order to understand it better
- 7. the first stage of a star's formation
- 9. calculated by finding the apparent brightness and its distance from Earth
- 10. _____________ stars are hotter than _____________ stars.
- 12. Because our sun has a medium mass, it will become a _____________________.
- 13. A white dwarf is the blue-white core left when a _______________ dies.
Down
- 1. a spinning neutron star. They can spin hundreds of times per second!
- 3. The H-R diagram shows the relationship between surface temperature and ________________ of stars.
- 8. The explosion of a supergiant running out of fuel.
- 9. how bright something seems from Earth
- 10. an object with gravity so strong that nothing can escape.
- 11. a large cloud of gas and dust containing an immense volume of material