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A Star’s Life
Due May 2, 2016
Assignment:
1. Read the two life cycle assignments (part I and II).
2. Create a graphic organizer that summarizes what you are reading.
3. Check your answers to the questions of part I (summary questions at the end) and part II (sections 1, 2, 4
and 5) in schoology. Note: the true/false section (Those A-Maz-Ing Stars) will lead you to the right
answer so no schoology assignment is available.
4. Using your graphic organizer, reading, and questions, you and one partner will be building a digital slide
show of a Star’s Life Cycle.
5. The digital slide show will incorporate the definitions and comments on the back of this page as well as
images from Google that match the definition.
a. Each definition/slide should incorporate the scientific description (from the reading) with an
explanation in your own words.
b. Search the internet for an appropriate real image. If a real life image is not available, please state this
is an artist’s rendering.
c. Please share the slide show with me when you create in Google slides.
All stars begin
as a ball of gas
& Dust in space
This is the death of a
large star by explosion
So massive light cannot
escape. The mass of 3
suns and about 6 miles
across
The star has used all of
its hydrogen fuel. The
center shrinks.
Left over centers of old
stars remain at this stage.
Nuclear fusion occurs at
Left over from a supernova
the core converting
and very massive
Hydrogen to Helium.
A star’s longest stage.
The stage of our SUN
The stars expands to 10 – 100
times its original size
These are small hot
stars near the end of
their life.
Generates a HUGE amount of light,
brighter than a whole Galaxy, and
may be seen with naked eye.
The materials are squeezed
together so hard by gravity
electrons and protons
become neutrons.
Has a Temp. Near 5,000 -6,000 C
Has a Temp. Near 10,000 C
Nebula
Main Sequence
Neutron Star
Red Giant
Black Hole
Supernova
White Dwarf
The Life Cycle of a Star