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5. An AU is the average distance between

6. What are the Sun and Earth?

7. The weathering and erosion processes on Mars involve

8. What is material being moved by wind?

9. Why is Mercury no longer shaped by volcanism?

10. Its interior has cooled off

11. How is the atmosphere of Venus different from that of other terrestrial planets?

12. It is denser.
A 400

13. The atmosphere of a gas giant is____

14. deep, with many clouds
A 500

15. Chunks of ice orbiting a gas giant's equator are called_______.

16. rings
B 100

17. Both comets and asteroids_____.

18. orbit the Sun
B 200

19. A brief streak of light from a falling space object is a_____.

20. meteor
B 300

21. Scientists express distance in the solar system in AUs because____.

22. orbits are very large
B 400

23. Venus has a more uniform surface temperature than other terrestrial planets because of its______.

24. dense atmosphere
B 500

25. Unlike the atmosphere of a terrestrial planet, the atmosphere of a gas giant____.
C 100

26. composes most of the planet

27. Planetary rings are made primarily of_____.
C 200

28. i c e
C 200

29. Comets are different from asteroids in that comets_____.

30. are mostly made of ice
C 300

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Place A Wager
C 400

32. A meteor is a_____.
C 400

33. bright streak of light from a falling space object

34. A meteor is visible because of

35. its high temperature as it glows in Earth's atmosphere
C 500

36. Earth’s average distance from the Sun, which is approximately 150 million kilometers (93 million mi)..
D 100

37. What is an astronomical unit (A.U.)?
D 100

38. An oval or flattened circle.

39. What is an ellipse?
D 200

40. Earth or a planet similar to Earth that has a rocky surface
Earth or a planet similar to Earth that has a rocky surface. The four planets in the inner solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
D 300

41. What are terrestrial planets?
D 300

42. The processes in which the motion of hot material under a crust changes the crust of a space body.

43. What are tectonics?
D 400

44. The process of molten material moving from a space body’s hot interior onto its surface..

45. What is volcanism?
D 500

46. A large planet that consists mostly of gases in a dense form
A large planet that consists mostly of gases in a dense form. The four large planets in the outer solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune).
E 100

47. What are gas giants?
E 100

48. In astronomy, a wide, flat zone of small particles that orbit around a planet’s equator.

49. What are rings?
E 200

50. A body that produces a coma of gas and dust; a small, icy body that orbits the Sun.

51. What is a comet?
E 300

52. A brief streak of light produced by a small particle entering Earth’s atmosphere at a high speed.

53. What is a meteor?
E 400

54. A small object from outer space that passes through Earth’s atmosphere and reaches the surface.

55. What is a meteorite?
E 500

56. that tectonic processes involve the crust doing what?
On Mars as elsewhere, tectonic processes are different from weathering and erosion in
that tectonic processes involve the crust doing what?
F 100

57. forming hills and valleys because of hot underground material

58. The presence of craters in large, smooth plains
tells scientists that, on Mercury,____
F 200

59. volcanism is no longer occuring
F 200

60. Why is the atmosphere of a gas giant deep and dense?

61. The planet's huge gravitational force holds
many gases and pulls them together
tightly.
F 300

62. Venus's atmosphere is the most dense of all the
terrestrial planets. What effect does this
density of atmosphere have?
F 400

63. which equalizes temperatures.
It moves energy around,
which equalizes temperatures.
F 400

64. Why are comets and asteroids different?

65. Comets formed far from the Sun, so they are composed mostly of ice.

66. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Vocabulary in Science
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Volcanism is no longer active on Mercury. What can you infer from this?
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68. Its interior has cooled off.
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