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 IntroductionLife CycleStarsGalaxiesFormation of the Universe Final Jeopardy

3. Question Answer Introduction-100 ANSWER: Put the following in order from smallest to largest: galaxy, universe, star, galaxy cluster QUESTION: star, galaxy, galaxy cluster, universe

4. Question Answer Introduction -200 ANSWER: The star system that is closest to Earth, excluding the sun. QUESTION: What is Alpha Centuri?

5. Question Answer Introduction -300 ANSWER: The fuel that maintains the burning of the sun. As it is used, it decreases and helium increases. QUESTION: What is hydrogen?

6. Question Answer Introduction -400 ANSWER: Holds a star together. QUESTION: What is gravity?

7. Question Answer Introduction - 500 ANSWER: This helps to measure the distance of the star from earth. QUESTION: What is absolute magnitude?

8. Question Answer Life Cycle -100 ANSWER: Happens to a star when its fuel is consumed QUESTION: What is it will dim or die out?

9. Question Answer Life Cycle -200 ANSWER: Occurs in the core of a star QUESTION: What is nuclear fusion? (H+H=He)

10. Question Answer Life Cycle -300 ANSWER: Where most stars are located on the HR diagram QUESTION: What is the main sequence?

11. Question Answer Life Cycle -400 ANSWER: Quanities labeled on the HR diagram QUESTION: What are absolute magnitude and temperature?

12. Question Answer LifeCycle -500 ANSWER: Sequence that an average size star goes through late in its life QUESTION: What is red giant – white dwarf – black dwarf?

13. Question Answer Stars -100 ANSWER: This color represents cool stars QUESTION: What is red?

14. Question Answer Stars -200 ANSWER: The gas that fuels the sun. QUESTION: What is hydrogen?

15. Question Answer Stars-300 ANSWER: How the magnitudes of stars are denoted (+ and -) QUESTION: What is negative is brighter and positive is dimmer?

16. Question Answer Stars -400 ANSWER: Parallax is small when QUESTION: What is the object is far away from Earth?

17. Question Answer Stars -500 ANSWER: Spectra produced when light passes from a hot solid through a cool gas QUESTION: What is absorption spectra?

18. Question Answer Galaxies -100 ANSWER: How galaxies are classified QUESTION: What is by shape?

19. Question Answer Galaxies -200 ANSWER: A group of stars that are close together relative to surrounding stars QUESTION: What is an open cluster?

20. Question Answer Galaxies -300 ANSWER: Astronomers observe these to investigate the origin of the universe QUESTION: What are quasars?

21. Question Answer Galaxies -400 ANSWER: This is a gas cloud QUESTION: What is a nebula?

22. Question Answer Galaxies -500 ANSWER: The three types of galaxies QUESTION: What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?

23. Question Answer Formation of the Universe -100 ANSWER: Structure of the universe QUESTION: What is every object is a part of a larger system?

24. Question Answer Formation of the Universe -200 ANSWER: A theory explaining the beginning of the universe as an explosion causing galaxies to move away from one another QUESTION: What is the Big Bang?

25. Question Answer Formation of the Universe -300 ANSWER: Two observations that support the Big Bang Theory QUESTION: What is Red Shift and Background Radiation?

26. Question Answer Formation of the Universe -400 ANSWER: The study of the origin, properties, processes, and evolution of the universe QUESTION: What is cosmology?

27. Question Answer Formation of the Universe -500 ANSWER: The theory that scientists currently believe in regards to the universe expansion QUESTION: What is there is not enough matter to stop expansion, and it will continue forever?

28. Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: The future of a massive star after main sequence QUESTION: What is Super Red Giant – Neutron star (if smaller) – Black Hole (if larger)