Jeopardy Earth in Space Motion and Gravity Phases, Eclipses And Tides Earth’s Moon Misc. Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Answer The motion that causes day and night on Earth

$100 Question What is Earth’s rotation?

$200 Answer The time Earth takes to revolve once.

$200 Question What is a year ( days)?

$300 Answer The longest day of the year.

$300 Question What is the summer solstice?

$400 Answer The days when day and night are each twelve hours long.

$400 Question What are the equinoxes?

$500 Answer The season we experience when the sun is at its lowest point in the sky at noon.

$500 Question What is winter?

$100 Answer The factors that affect the force of gravity between two objects.

$100 Question What are the distance between and the masses of the objects?

$200 Answer The factors that combine to keep the Earth in a stable orbit around the sun.

$200 Question What are inertia and the Sun’s gravitational pull?

$300 Answer The shape of all planet’s orbits.

$300 Question What is an ellipse?

$400 Answer The average distance between the Earth and the Sun.

$400 Question What is one astronimical unit (1 AU), 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers?

$500 Answer The constellations that are sometimes blocked by the sun at certain points during the year.

$500 Question What are the zodiacs?

$100 Answer The side of the moon that is illuminated during the waxing phases.

$100 Question What is the right side?

$200 Answer The reason we do not have a solar and lunar eclipse every month.

$200 Question What is the tilt of the moon’s orbit?

$300 Answer The phase of the moon during the neap tide.

$300 Question What is the first or third quarter?

$400 Answer The amount of time it takes to go from a new moon phase to a full moon phase.

$400 Question What is about two weeks?

$500 Answer The time of day you will always see the full moon rise.

$500 Question What is 6 p.m.?

$100 Answer The dark, flat areas on the moon created by ancient lava flows.

$100 Question What are maria?

$200 Answer The cause of the moon’s extreme temperatures

$200 Question What is a lack of an atmosphere?

$300 Answer The excepted theory of the origin of the moon.

$300 Question What is the impact theory?

$400 Answer The reason we always see the same side of the moon from Earth.

$400 Question What is the fact that the moon’s periods of rotation and revolution are equal?

$500 Answer The phase of the moon when we see half of the illuminated side.

$500 Question What is a quarter moon?

$100 Question The star at your zenith if you stand on the North Pole.

$100 Answer What is Polaris (the North Star)?

$200 Question The special day that usually falls on March 21 st.

$200 Answer What is the spring equinox?

$300 Question 23.5 degrees

$300 Answer What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?

$400 Question It states that every object in the universe attracts every other object.

$400 Answer What is Newton’s law of universal gravitation?

$500 Question The tendency for an object to resist a change in motion.

$500 Answer What is inertia?

Final Jeopardy The force that balances with inertia to keep the planets in orbit around the sun.

Final Jeopardy Answer What is gravity?