Jeopardy The Moon Eclipses Meteors Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Earth’s Rotation The Moon Eclipses Constellations Meteors Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from The Moon How many days does it take for the Moon to revolve around the Earth?

$100 Answer from The Moon It takes 29.5 days to revolve around the Earth

$200 Question from The Moon How do scientists believe the Moon was formed?

$200 Answer from The Moon They think that Mars slammed against the young Earth with high impact, scattering pieces into space, slowly building the Moon

$300 Question from The Moon Does the Moon produce light?

$300 Answer from The Moon No, although it is very bright it produces no light

$400 Question from The Moon How does the Moon affect the Earth?

$400 Answer from The Moon As the moon orbits around the Earth the lunar gravity attracts the water in the ocean, making the water level rise in some places and fall in the other.

$500 Question from The Moon What created the crates on the Moon’s surface?

$500 Answer from The Moon The crates are from fallen debris from space.

$100 Question from Earth’s Rotation How long does it take for the Earth to complete a full rotation?

$100 Answer from Earth’s Rotation 23 hours, 56 minutes, and four seconds

$200 Question from Earth’s Rotation What is the degree of the earth’s axis tilt?

$200 Answer from Earth’s Rotation 23.5 °

$300 Question from Earth’s Rotation Why does the Earth experience seasons?

$300 Answer from Earth’s Rotation Because of the axis tilt, the Sun’s light strikes Earth at different angles during Earth’s annual journey around the Sun

$400 Question from Earth’s Rotation What do the winter and summer solstices mark?

$400 Answer from Earth’s Rotation The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year and the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year

$500 Question from Earth’s Rotation What’s an equator?

$500 Answer from Earth’s Rotation An imaginary line around the middle of the earth where the sun strikes directly all year round

$100 Question from Eclipses What is a Solar Eclipse?

$100 Answer from Eclipses A Solar eclipse is when the moon blocks the suns light, and the shadow of the moon falls across portions of the Earth

$200 Question from Eclipses What is a Lunar eclipse?

$200 Answer from Eclipses A Lunar eclipse is when the Earth is exactly in between the sun and the moon.

$300 Question from Eclipses How long does it take for the moon to orbit Earth?

$300 Answer from Eclipses It takes approximately one month to orbit Earth

$400 Question from Eclipses Why do solar eclipses only occur a few times a year?

$400 Answer from Eclipses Because the moon’s orbit tilts about 5 degrees from the plane of Earth’s orbit around the sun

$500 Question from Eclipses What Moon phase does a Lunar Eclipse occur on?

$500 Answer from Eclipses A full moon

$100 Question from Constellations True or False: The stars in a constellations are close together?

$100 Answer from Constellations False, they are light years away

$200 Question from Constellations What is a Constellation?

$200 Answer from Constellations A distinctive pattern that a group of stars form

$300 Question from Constellations How many official constellations are there?

$300 Answer from Constellations There are 88 official constellations

$400 Question from Constellations What are Asterisms?

$400 Answer from Constellations They are smaller groups of stars that form patterns within constellations

$500 Question from Constellations What are the two end stars on The Big Dipper called?

$500 Answer from Constellations They are called pointer stars

$100 Question from Meteors What are meteors?

$100 Answer from Meteors They are pieces of rock floating through space

$200 Question from Meteors What are shooting stars?

$200 Answer from Meteors They are burning meteors passing through Earths atmosphere

$300 Question from Meteors What is it called when a meteor passes through the atmosphere?

$300 Answer from Meteors Its called a meteorite

$400 Question from Meteors In how many years does a big meteorite hit Earth?

$400 Answer from Meteors About once every 100 million years or so

$500 Question from Meteors How big was the Manicouagan crater?

$500 Answer from Meteors 70km wide

Final Jeopardy Who was Galileo?

Final Jeopardy Answer He was an Italian astronomer who invented the telescope