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20000200002000020000200 00 00 20000 400004000040000400004000040000 600006000060000600006000060000 800008000080000800008000080000 100000 100000100000100000100000100000 It’s good to be the moon Howl at the moon Get your space boots Is that a UFO Astronome rs Random Questions
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What is the Mare? A 100
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Dark spots on the Moon A 100
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Where are the older rocks on the moon located, on the mare or lunar highlands? A 200
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Lunar Highlands A 200
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Which phase of the moon comes directly after the Full Moon? A 300
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Waning Gibbous A 300
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Which phase of the moon comes directly after the Waxing Crescent? A 400
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First quarter A 400
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Which phase of the moon comes directly after the Waning Crescent? A 500
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New Moon. A 500
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Which phase of the moon comes directly before the third quarter? B 100
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Waning Gibbous B 100
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Why does the moon experience different phases? B 200
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As the moon orbits Earth we can see different portions of the lighted side of the moon. B 200
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List all eight phases of the moon beginning with the new moon. B 300
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New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent. B 300
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B 400 When viewed from Earth, which phase of the Moon will be seen when the Moon is at point E?
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Full Moon B 400
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Why does the Earth’s ocean’s experience tides? B 500
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Because of the pull of the moon’s gravitation pull B 500
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If you were to stand on the beach for a 24 hour period of time, how many high tides would you see, and how many low tides would you see? C 100
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2 high tides, and 2 low tides. C 100
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What does NASA stand for? C 200
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration C 200
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What are the three different kinds of telescopes? C 300
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Reflecting, Refracting and Radio telescopes C 300
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DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
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Why does the Hubble telescope produce better images than telescopes that are on Earth? C 400
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Because it orbits the Earth and therefore isn’t affected by the Earth’s atmosphere. C 400
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Name the four spacecrafts that NASA uses to explore space? C 500
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Flyby, orbiter, lander, probe. C 500
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What are flybys used for? D 100
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Fly by an object and take pictures.. (data) D 100
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How are orbiters used to study space? D 200
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They are sent to planets to orbit for longer periods of time and to map out the surface as well as collect other data D 200
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How are landers different from the other technologies that NASA uses to explore space? D 300
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They actually land on and explore the surface of the planet. D 300
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Which type of mission often involves collecting and testing samples from a planet’s surface? D 400
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Lander D 400
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What spacecraft is best used to study the atmosphere of a planet? D 500
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Probes D 500
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Which astronomer originally declared that the Earth was at the center of the solar system and everything revolved around it? E 100
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Claudius Ptolemy E 100
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E 200 Who improved the telescope, charted the moon surface and discovered four moons of Jupiter?
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Galileo Galilei E 200
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Who in 1687 published the laws of universal gravitation E 300
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Sir Issac Newton E 300
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Who claimed that the Sun was the center of the solar system and that the earth was spinning on it’s axis? E 400
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Nicolaus Copernicus E 400
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What German astronomer discovered that the planets move elliptical? E 500
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Johannes Kepler E 500
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F 100 The galaxy that Earth is in is called the _________________.
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Milky Way F 100
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What does it mean for the Moon to be in a Gibbous phase? F 200
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More than half of the near side is in sunlight. F 200
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This planet also has rings, but lie on its side so the rings go around it vertically. F 300
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Uranus F 300
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When is the Sun highest in the sky near the North Pole? F 400
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on or around June 21. F 400
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This planet is blue because it is mostly made of a gas called methane. F 500
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Neptune F 500
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The Final Jeopardy Category is: What goes up, must come down, or does it really? Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin
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Click on screen to continue Which location would have the greatest number of daylight hours when Earth is in this position?
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D. Click on screen to continue
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