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Big History Assignment
Big History Assignment
BIG HISTORY 1:
Big Bang to the Future
III. Vocabulary. Match the word on the left with the definition on the right.
IV. Understanding Main Ideas – Low Mass Star: Label the diagram with all the words given
as well as write down the Letter that matches each object.
1. Red giant
2. Where fusion begins
3. Nebula
4. Black hole
5. The stage the sun is in
6. White dwarf
7. Planetary nebula
V. Understanding Main Ideas: High Mass Star: Label the diagram with all the words given as
well as write down the Letter that matches each object.
1. Black Hole
2. Supernova
3. Protostar
4. Gravity causes this to condense into a protostar
5. Main sequence star
6. When a star begins to run out of fuel and grows larger
7. Neutron star
VI. Graphic Organizer – Putting it all Together: Label the diagram with all the words given
as well as write down the Letter that matches each object.
Black dwarf
Red Giant or
Supergiant
Nebula
Neutron Star
VII. Fill in the Blanks. Use the following words to fill in the blanks.
1. are clouds of dust and gas from which a star first forms. They are
pulled together by gravity into a spinning disc. The center of the disc becomes a star
while the rest can become a system of planets.
3. Nebula can form either an star that is about the size of our Sun or a
Star which can be over three times as big as our Sun! These stars stay in
this period of most of their lives and they convert hydrogen to helium while generating
lots of heat and light.
5. The outer layers of a red giant keep expanding until they eventually drift off and form a
.
6. Eventually the outer layers of an average star drift away and the star becomes a much
smaller . It has now run out of nuclear fuel to burn off.
7. This star is very small and tremendously dense and marks the end of the supergiant’s life
cycle. It has a strong magnetic field, a very fast spin and is about 1.4 times the msas of
the sun – it is called a .
ACROSS DOWN
3. A white dwarf that has cooled down in 1. This may be the beginning or the end
temperature; is invisible because it no of a star’s life; a cloud that is made up of
longer emits light dust, helium and hydrogen, and plasma
5. One of the endings of a star that has a 2. This is what 90% of stars in the sky
mass 4-8 times greater than our Sun; are are; they fall out of balance when all the
very dense fuel has been used up
6. This is what a low or medium life star 4. This is the starting point of a star’s
will become later in its life; typically have birth, lasting about 100,000 years;
the same mass as our Sun, but only a bit mainly made of helium and hydrogen
larger than the Earth particles, with a relatively low
temperature
7. The explosion of a star when it has
reached the end of its lifetime; are no longer
stars, and are seen as bright points of light
in the sky.