1. Jeopardy – The Solar System
The Sun
The Inner Planets
The Outer Planets
Comets, Asteroids and Meteors
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2. How the sun’s energy is produced.
The Sun for 100
How the sun’s energy is produced.
What is nuclear fusion?
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3. The Sun for 200 What are solar winds?
Electrically charged particles stream out from the corona.
What are solar winds?
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4. The Sun for 300 Cool, dark areas of the sun. What are sunspots?
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5. The Sun for 400 Reddish loops of gas that connect sunspots.
What are prominences?
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6. What is during a total eclipse?
The Sun for 500
When I can see the corona.
What is during a total eclipse?
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7. What are the terrestrial planets?
The Inner Planets for 100
We are the four inner planets which are small and have rocky surfaces.
What are the terrestrial planets?
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8. The Inner Planets for 200 My day is longer than my year.
What is Venus?
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9. The Inner Planets for 300
I have seasons just like Earth and I may have water.
What is Mars?
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10. The Inner Planets for 400 I have the greatest temperature range.
What is Mercury?
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11. What is the greenhouse effect?
The Inner Planets for 500
This effect causes the earth to get hotter and hotter.
What is the greenhouse effect?
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12. What are the gas giants (or Jovian planets)?
The Outer Planets for 100
We are the four outer planets, some might say we stink.
What are the gas giants (or Jovian planets)?
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13. The Outer Planets for 200 What is Jupiter?
I may have a moon with life, they also call me stormy.
What is Jupiter?
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14. The Outer Planets for 300
I don’t belong here, I should belong with the inner four.
What is Pluto?
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15. The Outer Planets for 400
I am the farthest planet in the solar system.
What is Neptune?
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16. I’m known for my ice and rocks in orbit around me.
The Outer Planets for 500
I’m known for my ice and rocks in orbit around me.
What is Saturn
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17. Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 100
Some call me a dirty snowball.
What is a comet?
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18. Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 200
If I hit the Earth I become one.
What is a meteorite?
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19. Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 300
I swing by about every 76 years.
What is Halley’s Comet?
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20. Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 400
I’m too small to be a planet; find me between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
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21. Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 500
I am a mess between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
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22. What is a geocentric model?
Wild Card for 100
Mother Earth as the center all.
What is a geocentric model?
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23. What are the Goldilocks Conditions
Wild Card for 200
These allow life to survive on Earth.
What are the Goldilocks Conditions
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24. What is the heliocentric model.
Wild Card for 300
The sun is the center of it all.
What is the heliocentric model.
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25. Who was Johannes Kepler
Wild Card for 400
I discovered the circles were ellipses.
Who was Johannes Kepler
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26. Wild Card for 500 My sunspots cycle around me every this many years.
What is every years
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