The Universe

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by Amy Brown Science

Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD

Subjects: science

Grades: 6,7,8

Description: This set of 82 Boom Cards covers the topics and concepts found in "The Universe" chapter of a middle school (grades 6-8) science textbook. Topics covered include: • Stars: Colors of stars, composition of stars, spectrum, continuous spectrum, emission lines, absorption spectrum, classifying stars. • Apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude. • Light years and parallax. • The Life Cycle of Stars: The H-R Diagram. • Supernovas, neutron stars, pulsars, black holes. • Galaxies: Spiral, Elliptical, and irregular. • Gas clouds, globular clusters, open clusters. • Origin of galaxies: Quasars, big bang theory, universal expansion.