1. Jeopardy Science Unit Solar System

2. Solar Vocab System Vocab Planets Objects in the sky Bonus 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

3. A craft that carries instruments to explore space? Click for answer

4. The Sun and other objects that orbit it make up the? Click for answer

5. When planets move around the Sun, they it? Click for answer

6. A small round body that orbits a planet? Click for answer

7. A tool that makes distant objects look larger? Click for answer

8. A large body that orbits the Sun and does not produce light? Click for answer

9. When you make an object look larger, you the object? Click for answer

10. An imaginary line through the center of an object? Click for answer

11. A ball of hot gases that gives off light and other forms of energy? Click for answer

12. What are the four Seasons? Click for answer

13. The Earth on it’s axis? Click for answer

14. The Moon around the Earth? Click for answer

15. When the Moon’s near side is sun lit it is called a? Click for answer

16. When the Moon’s near side receives no sunlight it is called a? Click for answer

17. Name the four inner planets? Click for answer

18. Name the outer planets? Click for answer

19. Jupiter is a because of its size and make up? Click for answer

20. What characterizes the inner planets? Click for answer

21. What characterizes the outer planets? Click for answer

22. Which planet is not a planet or it could be called a dwarf? Click for answer

23. Which planet is named for the Greek god of Speed because it orbits the Sun so quickly? Click for answer

24. The way the Moon looks when seen from Earth are the? Click for answer

25. When the Moon becomes visible again and appears as a thin shape, the phase is called? Click for answer

26. When half of the Moon’s near side is sunlit it is a? Click for answer

27. Following a new moon an increasing amount of the moon’s near side is sunlit. This is called? Click for answer

28. Following a full moon, the moon is said to be? Click for answer

29. What causes the phases of the moon? Click for answer

30. A group of stars that form a pattern in called a? Click for answer

31. What is the an acronym to help you remember the names of the planets? Click for answer

32. What causes the cycle of night and day? Click for answer

33. At what time of day will your shadow be shortest? Click for answer

34. An imaginary line that circles the Earth half way between the North Pole and the South Pole? Click for answer

35. How many days does it take the Earth to revolve around the Sun? Click for answer

36. How many hours does it take the Earth to revolve once on its axix? Click for answer

37. What causes the cycle of the seasons? Click for answer

38. Space Probe

39. Solar System

40. Orbit

41. Moon

42. Telescope

43. Planet

44. Magnify

45. Axis

46. Star

47. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

48. Rotates

49. Revolves

50. Full Moon

51. New Moon

52. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

53. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (Pluto is a dwarf)

54. Gas Giant

55. Small, rocky, close to the Sun and have few moons

56. Far from the Sun, made of Gas, Large, have rings, cold

57. Pluto

58. Mercury

59. Phases of the Moon

60. Crescent moon

61. Quarter moon

62. Waxing Moon

63. Waning

64. The Moon revolves around the Earth

65. Constellation

66. My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas

67. The Earth Rotates on its axis

68. Noon

69. Equator

70. 365 1/4

71. 24 hours

72. The tilt of the Earth