1. Jeopardy: Astronomy

2. Newton’s Laws and Gravity
Astronomy
Planets
The Moon
Newton’s Laws and Gravity
Stars
Day, Night, & Seasons
Vocabulary
100
200
300
400
Final Jeopardy!!

3. Planets 100
What keeps all of the planets orbiting the sun?
Gravity!

4. Planets 200 Which planet is known for its large, beautiful rings?
Saturn

5. Planets 300 A very unique feature of the planet Jupiter.
A red spot that scientists believe is a large storm

6. Planets 400 Compare and contrast Mercury and Venus
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but Venus is hotter and brighter

7. The Moon 100 The pull of the moon’s gravity
What causes tides on Earth?
The pull of the moon’s gravity

8. The Moon 200 Waxing = getting bigger/brighter (Increasing)
Explain the meaning of “waxing” and “waning”.
Waxing = getting bigger/brighter
(Increasing)
Waning = getting smaller/less bright
(decreasing)

9. The Moon 300
What kind of eclipse is shown below?
Solar Eclipse

10. The Moon 400
Which moon phase is shown below?
Half moon

11. Newton’s Laws 100
What is “an attractive force between two objects that grows greater as the objects move closer to each other”?
Gravity

12. Newton’s Laws 200
Which of Newton’s laws is “an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force; an object at rest will stay at rest”?
Newton’s First Law

13. Newton’s Laws 300 What is Newton’s Second Law?
The bigger an object, the more force needed to move it (Force = Mass X Acceleration)

14. Newton’s Laws 400 What is Newton’s 3rd Law?
Every action will have an equal and opposite reaction

15. Stars 100
What is the birthplace of stars?
Nebula

16. Stars 200
What element is produced when two hydrogen atoms combine?
Helium

17. Stars 300 What is a black hole?
A collapsed/dead star; it produces so much gravity that not even light can escape it

18. Stars 400
What is found in the center of distant galaxies? They are caused by giant black holes and are very bright.
Quasar

19. Day, Night, Seasons 100 What causes night and day on Earth?
The Earth’s rotation

20. Day, Night, Seasons 200
The length of Earth’s revolution around the sun.
days or 1 year

21. Day, Night, Seasons 300 What causes seasons on Earth?
Because the Earth’s axis is tilted (23.5 degrees), and the Earth revolves around the Sun.

22. Name the season felt in Colorado
Day, Night, Seasons 400
Name the season felt in Colorado
Summer (because the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun)

23. What word means for an object to spins on its axis?
Vocabulary 100
What word means for an object to spins on its axis?
rotation

24. Vocabulary 200 What word means “when one object moves around another”?
Revolution

25. Vocabulary 300 What is a light-year?
The distance that a ray of light can travel in one year

26. Define galaxy Vocabulary 400
A large group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.

27. Final Jeopardy
List the planets in order from the sun and away from the sun (backwards)
In order from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Backwards: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury