1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Phases of the Moon Solar System Earth Events in Space Vocabulary

2. It’s Jeopardy!Jeopardy!

3. Phase when the moon is increasing in size and only a sliver can be seen.

4. What is waxing crescent?

5. Phase when the Moon is increasing in size and half of it is seen.

6. What is 1 st quarter?

7. Phase when the Moon is decreasing in size and nearly all of it is lit.

8. What is waning gibbous?

9. Phase when the Moon cannot be seen.

10. What is New Moon?

11. Phase when the Moon is decreasing in size and only a sliver can be seen.

12. What waning crescent?

13. Length of time it takes the Moon to revolve around the Earth

14. What is a month or 27.3 days?

15. The length of time it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun

16. What is a year or 365 ¼ days?

17. The inner planets are separated from the outer planets by this

18. What is the asteroid belt?

19. Earth’s rotation on its own axis creates this and it takes this long.

20. What day and night and 24 hours?

21. Name the 8 planets in order from the Sun.

22. What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

23. Earth and the other planets stay in orbit around the Sun because of this

24. What is the Sun’s gravity or gravitational pull?

25. Because the Earth is tilted on its axis we have this

26. What are seasons?

27. From Earth we see different phases of the Moon because of this

28. What is the angle of the Moon to the Earth as the Moon revolves?

29. Constellations appear to move across the sky, but these two things are the cause of their apparent motion.

30. What is Earth’s rotation and revolution around the Sun?

31. In this picture the Northern Hemisphere would be experiencing which season?

32. What is winter?

33. This event occurs because of the Moon’s gravity pulling on the Earth

34. What are the tides?

35. This occurs when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon and a shadow is cast on the Moon

36. What is a lunar eclipse?

37. This season occurs when the Earth receives direct sunlight from the Sun.

38. What is summer?

39. For a solar eclipse to occur this has to happen

40. What is the Moon must block the light of the Sun and cast a shadow on Earth?

41. These are the two reasons why the Earth has seasons.

42. What is the tilt of the Earth on its axis and the Earth’s revolution around the Sun?

43. An imaginary line that the Earth rotates around

44. What is axis?

45. A space object made of ice and dust that orbits a star

46. What is a comet?

47. A group of stars with a recognizable shape

48. What are constellations?

49. A nearly round object that orbits a star and is smaller than a planet

50. What is a dwarf planet?

51. A single turn around an axis

52. What is rotation?

53. Final Jeopardy Round Wagers?

54. Name the phases of the Moon in order.