Space Jeopardy 1 Solar System Space Facts Gravity Moon Phases Odds & Ends

Solar System (100pts) Answer A dirty snowball with a long tail that is pulled around the sun and then sent back into deep space.

Solar System (100pts) Home What is a comet?

Solar System (200pts) Answer A chunk of rock orbiting in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Solar System (200pts) Home What is an asteroid?

Solar System (300pts) Answer This is the only planet on which we have found definite signs of life. (so far)

Solar System (300pts) Home What is Earth?

Solar System (400pts) Answer This planet is tipped on its side.

Solar System (400pts) Home What is Uranus?

Solar System (500pts) Answer This used to be the ninth and smallest planet but has now been classified as a dwarf planet.

Solar System(500pts) Home What is Pluto?

Space Facts (100pts) Answer Photovoltaics

Space Facts (100pts) Home What is the science name for solar cells?

Space Facts (200pts) Answer A constant state of falling.

Space Facts (200pts) Home Why are astronauts weightless in space?

Space Facts (300pts) Answer Gravity and inertia.

Space Facts (300pts) Home What are the two forces that keep objects in orbit?

Space Facts (400pts) Answer Dwarf planets.

Space Facts (400pts) Home What is the category for Pluto and other similar objects?

Space Facts (500pts) Answer KC 135 (also know as the vomit comet)

Space Facts (500pts) Home What is nickname for the KC 135?

Gravity (100pts) Answer The state of weightlessness experienced by astronauts while in space.

Gravity (100pts) Home What is Zero G’s?

Gravity (200pts) Answer The gravity which we experience every day on Earth.

Gravity (200pts) Home What is 1 G?

Gravity (300pts) Answer 1/6 of a G.

Gravity (300pts) Home What is the gravity of the moon?

Gravity (400pts) Answer Two X’s the normal Earth’s gravity?

Gravity (400pts) Home What is 2 G’s?

Gravity (500pts) Answer Gravity is not determined by size but by this instead. (Also the reason a bowling ball would have more gravity than a basketball.)

Gravity (500pts) Home What is mass?

Answer Moon Phases (100pts)

Home Moon Phases (100pts) What is a last quarter?

Answer Moon Phases (200pts)

Home Moon Phases (200pts) What is a waning crescent?

Answer Moon Phases (300pts)

Home Moon Phases (300pts) What is a waxing crescent?

Answer Moon Phases (400pts)

Home Moon Phases (400pts) What is a waning gibbous?

Answer Moon Phases (500pts)

Home Moon Phases (500pts) What is a waxing gibbous?

Odds & Ends (100pts) Answer The nearest star to the earth.

Odds & Ends (100pts) Home What is the sun?

Odds & Ends (200pts) Answer This planet is best know for its giant red spot.

Odds & Ends (200pts) Home What is Jupiter?

Odds & Ends (300pts) Answer This planet has the largest volcanoes in the solar system.

Odds & Ends (300pts) Home What is the Mars?

Odds & Ends (400pts) Answer Name the eight planets in order.

Odds & Ends (400pts) Home What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Odds & Ends (500pts) Answer An object in motion tends to stay in motion unless something bothers it.

Odds & Ends (500pts) Home What is inertia?