2. StellarJeopardy 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 IntroductionPlanetsMoonMovementOther Objects Final Jeopardy

3. Question Answer Introduction-100 ANSWER: What is the largest planet in our solar system? QUESTION: What is Jupiter?

4. Question Answer Introduction -200 ANSWER: Why are the inner planets called terrestrial planets? QUESTION: What is they resemble Earth and are dense and rocky?

5. Question Answer Introduction -300 ANSWER: An astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance between QUESTION: What is the Earth and the sun?

6. Question Answer Introduction -400 ANSWER: This planet had a storm system called the Great Dark Spot. QUESTION: What is Neptune?

7. Question Answer Introduction - 500 ANSWER: Describe the characteristics that make Earth suitable for life as compared with its nearest neighbors in space, Mars and Venus. QUESTION: What are the presence of water, oxygen, and suitable temperatures?

8. Question Answer Planets-100 ANSWER: To which of the two main groups of planets does Earth belong? QUESTION: What is inner planets?

9. Question Answer Planets-200 ANSWER: How do the inner planets orbits differ from the outer planets? QUESTION: What is their orbits are closer together?

10. Question Answer Planets-300 ANSWER: Which is the next planet moving outward from the sun after Saturn? QUESTION: What is Uranus?

11. Question Answer Planets-400 ANSWER: What causes a high surface temperature on Venus? QUESTION: What is its thick atmosphere?

12. Question Answer Planets-500 ANSWER: Why is Venus sometimes called Earth’s twin? QUESTION: What is it’s about the same size and density?

13. Question Answer Moon -100 ANSWER: What causes the phases of the moon? QUESTION: What are the positions of the Earth, moon, and sun?

14. Question Answer Moon -200 ANSWER: What evidence supports the current theory about our moon’s origin? QUESTION: What is the rocks on the moon are similar to Earth’s mantle?

15. Question Answer Moon-300 ANSWER: Why do we always see the same side of the moon from Earth? QUESTION: What is the moon’s period of rotation equals its period of revolution?

16. Question Answer Moon -400 ANSWER: Why don’t solar and lunar eclipses occur every month? QUESTION: What is the moon’s orbit is tilted?

17. Question Answer Moon -500 ANSWER: What happens during a total solar eclipse? QUESTION: What is the moon covers the sun and casts a shadow on the Earth?

18. Question Answer Movement-100 ANSWER: What instrument made possible the discovery of additional planets? QUESTION: What is the telescope?

19. Question Answer Movement-200 ANSWER: A common method for scientists use to measure distances within the solar system is __________? QUESTION: What is the astronomical unit or AU?

20. Question Answer Movement-300 ANSWER: The counterclockwise spin of a planet or moon as seen from above the planet’s North Pole is ________________________ rotation. QUESTION: What is prograde?

21. Question Answer Movement-400 ANSWER: The clockwise spin of a planet or moon as seen from above the planet’s North Pole is ________________________ rotation. QUESTION: What is retrograde?

22. Question Answer Movement-500 ANSWER: Name the two planets that have retrograde rotation. QUESTION: What are Venus and Uranus?

23. Question Answer Other Objects-100 ANSWER: Most asteroids in our solar system are found between the planets of ____________________ and ____________________. QUESTION: Mars and Jupiter

24. Question Answer Other Objects-200 ANSWER: Natural or artificial bodies that orbit larger celestial bodies such as planets are called ____________________. QUESTION: What are satellites?

25. Question Answer Other Objects-300 ANSWER: Some scientists refer to ____________________ as “dirty snowballs” because they are composed of ice, rock, and cosmic dust. QUESTION: What are comets?

26. Question Answer Other Objects-400 ANSWER: Small, rocky bodies that revolve around the sun are called ____________________. QUESTION: What are asteroids?

27. Question Answer Other Objects-500 ANSWER: What is the Torino scale? QUESTION: What is a system used to rate the hazard level of an object moving toward Earth?

28. Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: List the phases of the moon in order, starting with new moon. QUESTION: What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent