1. Astronomy Jeopardy

2. Categories Earth Moon Planets Grab Bag 100 200 300 400 500 Universe
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3. Earth - 100
What causes seasons?

4. Earth - 100
The tilt and revolution of the earth.

5. Earth - 200
What is the reason we see different constellations in different seasons?

6. Earth - 200
Earth revolution around the sun.

7. Earth - 300
What are day and night evidence of?

8. Earth - 300
Earth’s rotation

9. Earth - 400
What degree latitude do the suns rays hit directly on March 21?

10. Earth - 400
Zero degrees, the equator.

11. Earth - 500
What is the spiral motion of fluids in the atmosphere and ocean that demonstrates earth’s rotation called? What direction do they spin in the northern hemisphere?

12. Earth - 500 The Coriolis effect.
Spin to the right in northern hemisphere

13. Moon - 100
What causes tides?

14. Moon - 100
The gravitational pull of the moon.

15. Moon - 200
What is it called when the moon’s shadow falls on earth?

16. Moon - 200
A solar eclipse

17. Moon - 300
What is the approximate length of time for a lunar month of phases.

18. Moon - 300
29.5 days.

19. Moon - 400 At what time does the full moon rise?
At what time does the full moon set?

20. Moon - 400 Full moon rises at 6 pm (sunset)
Full moon sets at 6 am (sunrise)

21. Moon - 500 What phase of the moon is this? On what day of
the lunar cycle
does it occur?

22. Moon - 500
Waning crescent
Day 22-27

23. Planets - 100
What planet is this?

24. Planets - 100
Mars.

25. Planets - 200
What planet has a runaway greenhouse effect?

26. Planets - 200
Venus

27. Planets - 300
Name the Jovian planets in order from the sun

28. Planets - 300
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

29. Planets - 400
What is the apparent backing up or looping of a planet as viewed from earth caused by earth passing the planet in it’s orbit?
Daily Double

30. Planets - 400
Retrograde motion

31. Planets - 500
Which planet’s day is longer than its year?

32. Planets - 500
Venus

33. What will a medium sized star like our sun end its life as?
Universe - 100
What will a medium sized star like our sun end its life as?

34. Universe - 100
A white dwarf

35. Universe - 200
What is this?

36. Universe - 200
A comet.

37. Which group on the HR diagram does the sun belong too?
Universe - 300
Which group on the HR diagram does the sun belong too?

38. Universe - 300
The main sequence.

39. What is the evidence that the universe is expanding?

40. Most galaxies are red-shifted (moving away from us)
Universe - 400
Most galaxies are red-shifted (moving away from us)

41. Universe - 500
How old is the universe?

42. Universe - 500
About 15 billion years

43. Grab Bag - 100
What are the two possible fates for a massive star following a super nova?

44. Grab Bag - 100
A black hole or a neutron star.

45. Grab Bag -200
Seasons, moon phases, and tides are examples of what type of change?

46. Grab Bag - 200
Cyclic change.

47. Grab Bag - 300
In what model do the sun and the planets revolve around the earth?

48. Grab Bag - 300
Geocentric.

49. Grab Bag - 400
What is the altitude of Polaris in Massena, New York?

50. Grab Bag - 400
45 degrees above the horizon.

51. Grab Bag - 500 The compressing of light waves as a
source of light moves towards the observer is what?

52. Grab Bag - 500
The blue shift or Doppler effect.

53. End of game!