Space Jeopardy

Seasons Other Objects Kepler’s 3 Laws Eclipses & Tides Life Cycle of a Star 100 200 350

Seasons – 100 What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere? Summer

Seasons – 200 When is the day the longest? During the solstices When is the day and night equal in length? During the equinoxes

Seasons – 350 What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere? Summer

Other Objects – 100 Which dwarf planet is nearest to our planet and where is it located? Ceres; asteroid belt

Other Objects – 200 What’s the difference between asteroids and comets, compositionally speaking? Asteroids are mostly rocky and comets are mostly icy

Other Objects – 350 When does a meteoroid become a meteorite? After it impacts a planet or moon

Kepler’s 3 Laws – 100 What’s Kepler’s 2nd Law of Planetary Motion? The Law of Equal Areas – The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse.

Kepler’s 3 Laws – 200 What’s Kepler’s 1st Law of Planetary Motion? The Law of Orbits – The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.

Kepler’s 3 Laws - 350 What’s Kepler’s 3rd Law of Planetary Motion? The Law of Periods – For all planets, the square of the orbital period (T) of a planet is proportional to the cube of the average orbital radius (R).

Eclipses & Tides – 100 Does the diagram below show a lunar or solar eclipse? Lunar

Eclipses & Tides - 200 Does the diagram below show a lunar or solar eclipse? Solar

Eclipses & Tides – 350 State the high and low tides for the diagram below.

Life Cycle of a Star – 100 All stars start out as a… Nebula

Life Cycle of a star – 200 The life of a star can travel one of two paths, depending on its… Mass

Life Cycle of a Star – 350 Will our Sun eventually become a Black Hole, Black Dwarf or Neutron Star? How do we know? Black dwarf because our Sun is small comparatively