1. Space Jeopardy

2. Seasons
Other Objects
Kepler’s 3 Laws
Eclipses & Tides
Life Cycle of a Star
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350

3. Seasons – 100
What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere?
Summer

4. Seasons – 200 When is the day the longest? During the solstices
When is the day and night equal in length?
During the equinoxes

5. Seasons – 350
What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
Summer

6. Other Objects – 100
Which dwarf planet is nearest to our planet and where is it located?
Ceres; asteroid belt

7. Other Objects – 200
What’s the difference between asteroids and comets, compositionally speaking?
Asteroids are mostly rocky and comets are mostly icy

8. Other Objects – 350 When does a meteoroid become a meteorite?
After it impacts a planet or moon

9. Kepler’s 3 Laws – 100 What’s Kepler’s 2nd Law of Planetary Motion?
The Law of Equal Areas – The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse.

10. Kepler’s 3 Laws – 200 What’s Kepler’s 1st Law of Planetary Motion?
The Law of Orbits – The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.

11. Kepler’s 3 Laws - 350 What’s Kepler’s 3rd Law of Planetary Motion?
The Law of Periods – For all planets, the square of the orbital period (T) of a planet is proportional to the cube of the average orbital radius (R).

12. Eclipses & Tides – 100
Does the diagram below show a lunar or solar eclipse?
Lunar

13. Eclipses & Tides - 200
Does the diagram below show a lunar or solar eclipse?
Solar

14. Eclipses & Tides – 350
State the high and low tides for the diagram below.

15. Life Cycle of a Star – 100
All stars start out as a…
Nebula

16. Life Cycle of a star – 200
The life of a star can travel one of two paths, depending on its…
Mass

17. Life Cycle of a Star – 350
Will our Sun eventually become a Black Hole, Black Dwarf or Neutron Star? How do we know?
Black dwarf because our Sun is small comparatively