1. Science Jeopardy
The Seasons
The Moon
Moon Phases
Eclipses/Tides
Miscellaneous
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3. The Seasons 100
ANSWER: This is how much of Earth is in sunlight at any one time.
QUESTION: What is half?

4. The Seasons 200
ANSWER: This is how long it takes Earth to make one turn on its axis of rotation.
QUESTION: What is 24 hours?

5. The Seasons 300
ANSWER: This is how long it takes earth to complete one revolution around the Sun.
QUESTION: What is one year or 365 ¼ days?

6. The Seasons 400
ANSWER: This is what causes the changes in the amount of sunlight at a location during the course of a year.
QUESTION: What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?

7. The Seasons 500
ANSWER: This is what happens to Earth’s axis during an orbit.
QUESTION: What is it doesn’t change?

8. The Moon 100
ANSWER: This moon feature is a large, flat plain of dark rock.
QUESTION: What is a mare?

9. The Moon 200
ANSWER: These are round features caused by collisions with space objects.
QUESTION: What are impact craters?

10. The Moon 300
ANSWER: This is the reason why there is a near side and a far side of the moon.
QUESTION: What is the moon always keeps one side toward Earth or one rotation equals one revolution?

11. The Moon 400
ANSWER: This is why the materials of the Moon resemble those of Earth.
QUESTION: What is they probably formed from the same material?

12. The Moon 500
ANSWER: The name of the most prominent crater on the southern hemisphere of the moon.
QUESTION: What is Tycho?

13. Moon Phases 100
ANSWER: This is how many weeks it takes for a moon to go through the phase cycle.
QUESTION: What is four weeks?

14. Moon Phases 200
ANSWER: This is the half of the moon’s monthly cycle in which it appears to wax, or grow.
QUESTION: What is the first half?

15. Moon Phases 300
ANSWER: These are the two words used to describe the shape of the moon as it changes.
QUESTION: What are crescent and gibbous ?

16. Moon Phases 400
ANSWER: These are the two phases of the moon when it is half lit.
QUESTION: What are first quarter and third quarter?

17. Moon Phases 500
ANSWER: These are the phases of the moon starting with new moon.
QUESTION: What are new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent?

18. Eclipses and Tides 100
ANSWER: This occurs when a shadow appears to make the moon grow dark.
QUESTION: What is a lunar eclipse?

19. Eclipses and Tides 200
ANSWER: These are the two terms used to describe the shadow created by an eclipse.
QUESTION: What are umbra and penumbra?

20. Eclipses and Tides 300
ANSWER: This is the cause of earth’s tides.
QUESTION: What is the Moon’s gravity?

21. Eclipses and Tides 400
ANSWER: This is how many high tides you can expect in 48 hours.
QUESTION: What is four?

22. Eclipses and Tides 500
ANSWER: This is the reason there is a high tide on the opposite side of the earth from the moon.
QUESTION: What is the moon’s gravity is pulling the earth as well as the water?

23. Miscellaneous: 100
ANSWER: The layer of the moon identified by the letter B.
QUESTION: What is the crust? B

24. Miscellaneous: 200 ANSWER: The type of eclipse shown in the figure.
QUESTION: What is a lunar eclipse?
umbra
penumbra

25. ANSWER: The feature of the Moon identified by the letter A.
Miscellaneous: 300
ANSWER: The feature of the Moon identified by the letter A.
QUESTION: What is lunar highland? A

26. Miscellaneous: 400
ANSWER: The seasons experienced by the Northern Hemisphere in diagrams A and B.
QUESTION: What is Fall (A) and Summer (B)? A B

27. Miscellaneous: 500
ANSWER: The name, type and surface feature that the rock shown in the picture makes up on the Moon.
QUESTION: What is basalt, igneous and lunar maria?

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: This is the distance in kilometers from the Earth to the Moon.
QUESTION: What is 380,000 kilometers?

29. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: This is the distance in miles from the Earth to the Moon.
QUESTION: What is 240,000 miles?

30. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The approximate diameter (in kilometers) of the Moon’s core.
QUESTION: What is 700 kilometers?

31. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The approximate diameter (in miles) of the Moon’s core.
QUESTION: What is 400 miles?

32. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The distance (in inches) that the Moon is moving away from the Earth each year.
QUESTION: What is 1.5 inches?