Download On my webpage, find the link Star Life Cycle and use it to answer the

On my webpage, find the link Star Life Cycle and use it to answer the questions
below. Be sure to answer all questions in complete sentences.
1. Near the bottom of the first page, the website makes an analogy between the
life cycle of a star and the life cycle of a person. What are the stages of life in
a star and what stages in human life do they compare them to?
2. What is the “interstellar medium?”
Click the
button to go to the next page.
3. What causes the gas and dust inside a nebula to “clump” together?
4. What is equilibrium? In the case of a star, what are the two things are being
balanced?
5. What two things are required to maintain gas pressure in a star (in the
“Equilibrium- How it Works” section)
A Solar Mass is equal to the mass of the Sun. If, for example, a star has 2
solar masses, it means it has twice as much mass as the Sun.
Click the “brown dwarf” link in Option 1
6. How many solar masses are brown dwarfs on average?
7. Why aren’t brown dwarfs able to ignite fusion?
Go back to the main page. Click the
button to go on to the next page.
8. So, what is a star?
9. Where are most of the heavy elements in the universe made?
10. What is the “main sequence” as described by this site?
Go to the paragraph that starts “A star needs to maintain a balance too.”
Read this paragraph.
11. Write down the hypothesis you agree with from the site & explain why you
think it’s true.
Read the paragraph that begins, “Larger stars have more fuel.”
12. Do larger stars have a longer life than smaller stars?
13. Explain why.