2. THIS IS
JEEPARTY

3. With
Your
Host...
Mr. Tubb

4. Random Questions
It’s good to be the moon
Get your space boots
Howl at the moon
Is that a UFO
Astronomers
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5. What is the Mare?
A 100

6. Dark spots on the Moon
A 100

7. Where are the older rocks on the moon located, on the mare or lunar highlands?

8. Lunar Highlands
A 200

9. Which phase of the moon comes directly after the Full Moon?

10. Waning Gibbous
A 300

11. Which phase of the moon comes directly after the Waxing Crescent?

12. First quarter
A 400

13. Which phase of the moon comes directly after the Waning Crescent?

14. New Moon.
A 500

15. Which phase of the moon comes directly before the third quarter?

16. Waning Gibbous
B 100

17. Why does the moon experience different phases?
B 200

18. As the moon orbits Earth we can see different portions of the lighted side of the moon.

19. List all eight phases of the moon beginning with the new moon.

20. New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent.
B 300

21. When viewed from Earth, which phase of the
Moon will be seen when the Moon is at point E?
B 400

22. Full
Moon
B 400

23. Why does the Earth’s ocean’s experience tides?
B 500

24. Because of the pull of the moon’s gravitation pull

25. If you were to stand on the beach for a 24 hour period of time, how many high tides would you see, and how many low tides would you see?
C 100

26. 2 high tides, and 2 low tides.
C 100

27. What does NASA stand for?
C 200

28. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

29. What are the three different kinds of telescopes?

30. Reflecting, Refracting and Radio telescopes

31. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
Place A Wager
C 400

32. Why does the Hubble telescope produce better images than telescopes that are on Earth?

33. Because it orbits the Earth and therefore isn’t affected by the Earth’s atmosphere.

34. Name the four spacecrafts that NASA uses to explore space?

35. Flyby, orbiter, lander, probe.
C 500

36. What are flybys used for?

37. Fly by an object and take pictures.. (data)

38. How are orbiters used to study space?

39. They are sent to planets to orbit for longer periods of time and to map out the surface as well as collect other data
D 200

40. How are landers different from the other technologies that NASA uses to explore space?

41. They actually land on and explore the surface of the planet.

42. Which type of mission often involves collecting and testing samples from a planet’s surface?

43. Lander
D 400

44. What spacecraft is best used to study the atmosphere of a planet?

45. Probes
D 500

46. Based on this diagram, which moon phase is at position H

47. Waning Crescent
E 100

48. What is a shooting star?
E 200

49. Meteor
E 200

50. Which moon phase is from position F?

51. Waning Gibbous
E 300

52. Which moon phase do we see from position B?

53. Waxing Crescent
E 400

54. How many high tides are there in one 24 hours period?

55. 2 high tides
E 500

56. The galaxy that Earth is in is called the _________________.
F 100

57. Milky Way
F 100

58. What does it mean for the Moon to be in a Gibbous phase?

59. More than half of the near side is in sunlight.

60. This planet also has rings, but lie on its side so the rings go around it vertically.
F 300

61. Uranus
F 300

62. When is the Sun highest in the sky near the North Pole?
F 400

63. on or around June 21.
F 400

64. This planet is blue because it is mostly made of a gas called methane.

65. Neptune
F 500

66. The Final Jeopardy Category is:
What goes up, must come down, or does it really?
Please record your wager.
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67. Click on screen to continue
Which location would have
the greatest number of daylight
hours when Earth is in this position?
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