1. Welcome to Earth and Moon Jeopardy!
I’m your Jeopardy host! Today we will be reviewing the Earth and Moon’s place in the solar system, and how seasons occur. It’s out of this world!
Instructions
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3. Let’s play Jeopardy! To Game Board
Choose from one of five categories. Then choose a
point value. The larger the value, the more difficult
the question. Choose from one of four answers.
When you are finished with each question, click
the home button to go back to the game board.
If you are playing as a team, the team with the
most points wins!
Have fun, and remember,
SCIENCE RULES!
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4. Sun Earth Moon Jeopardy Review
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Phases of
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Eclipses
Tides
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5. This is what causes day and night on the Earth
The Earth revolving
around the sun..
A. The tilted axis.
B. The Earth’s rotation.
D. The sun spinning.
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6. The earth spins on its own axis at 1600 km/hr!
You Are Correct!!
The earth spins on its own axis at 1600 km/hr!
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7. The correct answer is the Earth’s rotation
Sorry,Wrong Answer!
The correct answer is the Earth’s rotation
On its own axis!
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8. The length of time for one revolution around the sun to occur.
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9. What is days?
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10. This is a measurement of distance from the equator, expressed in degrees north or south.
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11. What is latitude?
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12. The area of the Earth that receives the most direct sunlight, and is therefore warm year round.
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13. What is the equator?
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14. 23.5 degrees
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15. What is the tilt of the Earth’s axis?
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16. This is the reason for the Earth’s seasons.
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17. When the Earth’s axis is pointed towards the sun, this is the season experienced by the Northern hemisphere.
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18. What is the tilted axis?
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19. What is summer?
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20. This is the shortest day of the year.
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21. What is winter solstice? (Dec. 21)
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22. This event occurs twice a year when neither end of the Earth’s axis is tilted towards the sun.
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23. What is an equinox?
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24. This is the longest day of the year.
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25. What is summer solstice? (June 21st)
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26. 29.5 days
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27. What is a moon day and/or a moon year.
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28. The phase of the moon when no moonlight is seen.
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29. The Daily
Double!!!
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30. What is the tilt of the moon’s orbit?
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31. The moon phase when the moon is between the Earth and the Sun.
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32. What is a new moon?
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33. The approximate time it takes the moon to complete a cycle of phases.
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34. What is one month?
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35. What is a new moon?
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36. The reason why eclipses don’t occur every new moon.
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37. The two types of eclipses.
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38. What is lunar and solar!
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39. When the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking the sunlight from reaching Earth, this occurs.
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40. What is a solar eclipse?
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41. During a full moon when Earth is directly between the moon and the sun, this occurs.
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42. What is a lunar eclipse?
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43. The darkest part of the moon’s shadow during a solar eclipse is called this.
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44. What is the umbra?
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45. The number of high and low tides in one day.
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46. Spring tide, or really low and really high tides, occur during these moon phases.
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47. What is new and full moon?
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48. Neap tides occur during these moon phases.
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49. What are the 1st and 3rd quarter phases?
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50. The reason why tides occur on Earth.
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51. What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
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52. The sides of the Earth that are aligned with the moon experience this type of tide.
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53. What is high tide?
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54. A volleyball player bumps the ball
A volleyball player bumps the ball. The forces are equal and opposite, explain why the motion is not.
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55. The forces are equal and opposite, but the objects the forces are being placed on are not. They have differing amounts of mass, and therefore different amounts of inertia. The one with the least inertia moves the most.
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56. What is two high and two low?
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57. What is the difference between a waxing and a waning moon?
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58. A waxing moons phases are ‘growing’ in size, while a waning moon are the phases between full moon and new moon.
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