Solar system Jeopardy Start

Final Jeopardy Question PlanetsStars Life of Stars Telescopes Living in Space

10 Point Question This planet contains the great Red Spot. What is Jupiter? Back to the Game Board

20 Point Question Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as these. What are the gas giants? Back to the Game Board

30 Point Question These are in a band in the thousands between Mars and Jupiter. What are asteroids? Back to the Game Board

40 Point Question Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are known as the Inner Planets and also as the _______________ planets, meaning those that are Earth-like. What is terrestrial? Back to the Game Board

10 Point Question Nuclear reactions in stars produce heat and light when hydrogen is turned into this gas. What is helium? Back to the Game Board

20 Point Question This is the color of the hottest star. What is blue? Back to the Game Board

30 Point Question This instrument is used for studying stars, specifically the color of stars. What is a spectroscope? Back to the Game Board

40 Point Question Humans and animals all have this and so do stars, even though they aren’t living things. What is a life cycle? Back to the Game Board

10 Point Question Astronomers believe that stars began as huge clouds of dust and gas called __________, which are scattered through many regions of space. What are nebulas? Back to the Game Board

20 Point Question This is a huge exploding star. It creates one of the most dazzling events in the universe. What is a supernova? Back to the Game Board

30 Point Question This is what many stars at the end of their life cycle expand into as their fuel begins to run out. What is a red giant? Back to the Game Board

40 Point Question 1. This is what a neutron star may continue to collapse into—where the gravitational attraction is so strong that nothing can escape it—not even light 2. This is what our sun is predicted to collapse into, a very small, dying star that gives of very little light. 1.What is a black hole? 2.What is a white dwarf? Back to the Game Board

10 Point Question This type of telescope uses mirrors to magnify and focus light. What is a reflecting telescope? Back to the Game Board

20 Point Question This type of telescope uses convex lenses to magnify and focus light. What is a refracting telescope? Back to the Game Board

30 Point Question These are gigantic antennas that receive signals. Communication with spacecraft can be done with this. What is a radio telescope? Back to the Game Board

40 Point Question This telescope can see more clearly and see objects that are fainter or farther away (7 times) than telescopes on the ground can see. What is the Hubble telescope? Back to the Game Board

10 Point Question This is what happens to an astronaut’s muscles when living in space for a long period of time. What is weakness? Back to the Game Board

20 Point Question Most food and water in space is stores like this in order for astronauts to eat and drink. What is kept in sealed packages? Back to the Game Board

30 Point Question List three important things spacesuits have. What are a radio transmitter, an oxygen supply, and a temperature control system? Back to the Game Board

40 Point Question Astronauts must learn to adapt to this environmental factor when living and working in space. What is weightlessness? Back to the Game Board

List, in order, the 6 colors of the stars from hottest to coldest. Blue, blue-white, white, yellow, orange-red, red