Outer Space Solar System LightPhysicsGrab Bag
The cloud of dust and gas from which a star is born
What is a nebula?
After a supergiant star explodes it can become a neutron star or a…
What is black hole?
The age of the universe
What is 13.7 billion years old?
The type of galaxy that is pictured
What is a spiral galaxy?
The scientific principle that tells us that far off galaxies are spreading out at an increasingly fast rate
What is the Doppler effect (or red shift)?
The name of the planets in order
What is
These planets are the gas giants
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
The name of this type of eclipse
What is a solar eclipse?
This event caused seasons
What is the collision that created the moon?
The phase of the sun’s life after its main sequence phase.
What is a red giant phase?
Visible light is part of this spectrum.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
The color with the longest wavelength
What is RED ?
What happens to wavelength as you move toward an emitting object
What is they would shrink?
The type of waves that made this picture
What are microwaves?
The man that used the Doppler Effect to state that the universe is expanding
Who was Edwin Hubble?
The reason why stuff falls
What is gravity?
The speed of a cheetah that ran 100 m in 5 s
What is 20 m/s?
This does not change as you move from planet to planet
What is mass
Planets revolve around the sun in an ellipse centered around 2 foci (the sun being one)
What is Kepler’s First Law
Your car is at a redlight and then accelerates to 15 m/s in 10 seconds, What is your acceleration (solve with perfect format on the board)
4.5 billion years
What is the age of the Earth?
This variable is the one that you alter because you want to see its effect on something else
What is the independent variable?
This is the time of year when Rhode Islanders are the closest to the sun
When is winter (or perihelion)?
This is the last element that can be fused within a star
What is iron?
The invention of Alfred Nobel that made him feel really guilty and start giving away prizes for doing good stuff
What is dynamite?
FINAL JEOPARDY: ORBITS
The year length (orbit period) of a planet that is 4 AU from the sun