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Opening Question Put the following in the correct order from the earliest unit studied to the latest. –4th –3rd –2 nd –5th –1st

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For $100 Question #1 What is a large body of rock or gas that orbits the Earth? D) Planet D) Planet A) Asteroid A) Asteroid B) Comet B) Comet C) Rocket C) Rocket

For $300 Question #2 What is a chunk of rock or metal that orbits the sun? D) Shooting star D) Shooting star A) planet A) planet C) Asteroid C) Asteroid B) Chocolate chip B) Chocolate chip

For $500 Question #3 The imaginary line that runs through the Earth and which Earth rotates on is called… C) Prime Meridian C) Prime Meridian D) An axis D) An axis B) Hemisphere B) Hemisphere A) Equator A) Equator

For $800 Question #4 The spinning of the an object on its axis is called … A) revolution A) revolution D) Spinning D) Spinning B) rotation rotation rotation C) Twirling C) Twirling

For $1000 Question # 5 What is the path of an object as it moves around another? D) System B) Track B) Track A) Revolution C) Orbit C) Orbit

For $2000 Question #6 The __________ is made up of the sun and all the objects that orbit around it. A) 3 rd Grade Chorus D) Solar System B) Milky Way C) Galaxy

For $4000 Question #7 What do you call the different shapes the moon seems to have in the sky ? : C) Phases C) Phases D) Waxing Gibbous D) Waxing Gibbous A) Swiss Cheese A) Swiss Cheese B) Crescent Moon B) Crescent Moon

For $8000 Question #8 What kind of eclipse is it when Earth’s shadow falls on the moon? : A) Pluto Eclipse A) Pluto Eclipse D) Solar Eclipse D) Solar Eclipse C) Moon phases C) Moon phases B) LUNAR ECLIPSE

For $16,000 Question # 9 What happens when the moon’s shadow falls on Earth? D) A moon shadow D) A moon shadow C) SOLAR ECLIPSE B) Autumn Eclipse B) Autumn Eclipse A) LUNAR ECLIPSE A) LUNAR ECLIPSE

For $32,000 Question # 10 When the moon looks like a lighted circle in the sky it is in the __________ phase. D) Gibbous Moon D) Gibbous Moon B) Full Moon B) Full Moon C) Crescent moon C) Crescent moon A) New Moon A) New Moon

For $64,000 Question # 11 The outer planets are … : A) Made mostly of frozen gasses A) Made mostly of frozen gasses D) Hard to get to in an airplane D) Hard to get to in an airplane C) Close to the sun C) Close to the sun B) Have few moons B) Have few moons

For $125,000 Question # 12 Two revolutions of Earth takes … D) Two hours D) Two hours C) Two years C) Two years B) Two weeks B) Two weeks A) Two days A) Two days

For $250,000 Question # 13 The closest planet to the sun is … D) Jupiter D) Jupiter C) Neptune C) Neptune B) Mercury Mercury Mercury A)Earth. Earth.Earth.

For $500,000 Question # 14 A comet is visible in the sky only when it is close to … D) The sun D) The sun C) Chelsea School C) Chelsea School B) The moon B) The moon A) Earth A) Earth

For $1,000,000 Question # 15 The tilt of Earth’s axis causes… A) Sunlight A) Sunlight D) seasons D) seasons C) Rotation C) Rotation B) Day and night B) Day and night

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