Stellar evolution
Quiz by Oak National Academy: GCSE Physics Edexcel Higher
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- Q1What is a star?a huge ball of very hot gas and plasma with a burning corea huge ball of very hot gas and plasma that is burninga ball of very hot gas and plasma with nuclear fusion reactions in its corea ball of very hot gas and plasma with nuclear fission reactions in its core30s
- Q2What happens in a nuclear fusion reaction?small nuclei combine to form bigger nuclei of the same elementlarge nuclei split to form smaller nuclei of a different elementsmall nuclei combine to form bigger nuclei of a different elementlarge nuclei split to form smaller nuclei of the same element30s
- Q3What is a region of space called that contains traces of hydrogen gas and very fine dust?Users enter free textType an Answer30s
- Q4What is a protostar?a huge ball of dense, hot gas with nuclear fusion reactions in its corea huge ball of dense, hot gas with nuclear fission reactions in its corea huge ball of dense, hot burning gasa huge ball of dense, hot gas30s
- Q5What type of nuclei (which element) is fused together in nuclear reactions in the core of a new star?Users enter free textType an Answer30s
- Q6What type of star fuses hydrogen in its core?Users sort answers between categoriesSorting30s