1. Grade 9 Science - Space Jeopardy The PlanetsThe SunComets and Other Things Life of a StarExploring Space 11111 22222 33333 44444 55555

2. The 3 rd Planet from Sun

3. What is the Earth?

4. It is the largest planet

5. What is Jupiter?

6. It is no longer a planet

7. What is Pluto?

8. Eight

9. What is the number of planets in our Solar System?

10. It is often called the Red Planet

11. What is Mars?

12. Dark, cooler regions of the photosphere that produce violent magnetic storms.

13. What are Sun Spots?

14. The hot outer part of the Sun where temperatures reach 1,000,000 O C.

15. What is the Corona?

16. The type of nuclear reaction where two HYDROGEN NUCLEI combine to form a helium nucleus.

17. What is Nuclear Fusion?

18. The name for the distance from the Earth to the Sun (approximately 149,597,890 km).

19. What is one Astronomical Unit?

20. 365.25

21. What is the number of days it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun once?

22. Millions of rocks found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter

23. What are Asteroids?

24. Dirty snowballs of ice and dust.

25. What are Comets?

26. The extinction of dinosaurs may have been caused when one of these hit the Earth.

27. What is a Meteorite?

28. What a meteor is called when it strikes the Earth.

29. What is a Meteorite?

30. Any small, solid extraterrestrial bodies that enters the Earth's atmosphere.

31. What is a Meteor?

32. A star is “born” here.

33. What is a Nebula?

34. 15,000,000 O C

35. What is the temperature at the core at which a star “turns on”?

36. The remnants of a Supernova explosion in which the protons and electrons combine to form neutrons.

37. What is a Neutron Star?

38. It becomes this when the core is “swallowed” by its own gravity

39. What is a Black Hole?

40. This type of star is big and cold.

41. What is a Red Giant?

42. The type of eclipse when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth.

43. What is a Solar Eclipse?

44. The closest star to our Sun

45. What is Proxima Centauri?

46. This star is also called Polaris.

47. What is the North Star?

48. These form when the charges particles moving on the Solar Wind meet the magnetic field surrounding the Earth.

49. What are the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis?

50. 9.4605284 × 10 15 meters or the distance light travels in one year.

51. What is a Light Year?