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7th grade science Name ________________________________ Date ______________ Block _______ Scavenger Hunt: Who am I? Go to www.thesciencequeen.net website. Then click on 7th grade>Projects>Solar System Scavenger Hunt. Use the websites to help you answer the following questions: _______________ 1. I am the closest star to Earth. _______________ 2. I invented the first telescope and discovered the 4 moons of Jupiter. _______________ 3. We discovered the relationship between a star’s temperature and its brightness. _______________ 4. I discovered Pluto. _______________ 5. My theory of the universe was held as law for thousands of years even though I was wrong. _______________ 6. I discovered the first and largest asteroid. _______________ 7. I developed the big bang theory. _______________ 8. I discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune. _______________ 9. I realized that the planets go around the sun. _______________ 10. I discovered Titan the largest moon of Saturn. _______________ 11. I discovered the four moons of Saturn. _______________ 12. I discovered a new star in Cassiopeia. _______________ 13. I made the first catalogue of stars and the first map of the skies. _______________ 14. I discovered the planet Uranus. _______________ 15. I study black holes and the subatomic particles that radiate from them. Adapted from S.Baker’s Astronomy Scavenger Hunt & Past & Present Scavenger Hunt Both can be found at www.sciencespot.net G.Baker www.thesciencequeen.net 7th grade science _______________ 16. I predicted the return of a comet, which was eventually named after me. _______________ 17. I discovered Hyperion, one of Saturn’s moons. _______________ 18. I discovered the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. _______________ 19. We discovered Neptune together. _______________ 20. I created a model of the Solar System in which all the planets orbit the sun. _______________ 21. I named stars by assigning them to constellations and giving them Greek letters. _______________ 22. We discovered Neptune. Who are we? _______________ 23. I believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. _______________ 24. I discovered the surface of Venus was noxious and hot. _______________ 25. I made a list of comets in the 1700s. _______________ 26. I showed that other galaxies existed and observed that the universe is expanding. _______________ 27. I published the first moon map. Using the Nine Planets web site, answer the following questions: (Hint: They go in order from Pluto to Mercury) _______________ 28. I am the mythological figure who ferried the dead across the River Styx into Hades (the underworld). What moon am I? _______________ 29. I am the Roman God of the Underworld. The Greeks called me Hades. What planet am I? _______________ 30. I am the Roman God of the Sea. The Greeks called me Poseidon. What planet am I? Adapted from S.Baker’s Astronomy Scavenger Hunt & Past & Present Scavenger Hunt Both can be found at www.sciencespot.net G.Baker www.thesciencequeen.net 7th grade science _______________ 31. I am one of the sea nymphs, the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris. What moon am I? _______________ 32. I am is a god of the sea, the son of Poseidon; usually portrayed as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish. What moon am I? _______________ 33. I am a daughter of Aether and Hemera. My name is also the Greek word for "sea". What moon am I? _______________ 34. I am a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. What moon am I? _______________ 35. I am a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. What moon am I? _______________ 36. I am the nymph daughter of the river God Asopus. What moon am I? _______________ 37. I am the son and mate of Gaia the father of Cronus (Saturn) and of the Cyclopes and Titans (predecessors of the Olympian gods). What planet am I? _______________ 38. I am a daughter of Lear in Shakespeare's King Lear. What moon am I? _______________ 39. I am a daughter of the banished Duke in Shakespeare's As You Like It. What moon am I? _______________ 40. I am the wife of Othello in Shakespeare's Othell. What moon am I ? _______________ 41. I am a mischievous airy spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest. What moon am I? _______________ 42. I am the Queen of the Fairies and wife of Oberon in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream. What moon am I? Adapted from S.Baker’s Astronomy Scavenger Hunt & Past & Present Scavenger Hunt Both can be found at www.sciencespot.net G.Baker www.thesciencequeen.net 7th grade science _______________ 43. The Romans called be the God of Agriculture. The Greeks called me Cronus, the father of Zeus. What planet am I? _______________ 44. I am the Titan condemned by Zeus to support the heavens upon his shoulders. What moon am I? _______________ 45. I am the god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions; also the root of the English word "January". What moon am I? _______________ 46. I am the King of the Gods, the ruler of Olympus and the patron of the Roman state. What planet am I? _______________ 47. I am a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus. What moon am I? _______________ 48. I am the distributor of rewards and punishments, was the daughter of Jupiter and Ananke. What moon am I? _______________ 49. I am the god of War. What planet am I? _______________ 50. We are the sons of one of the sons of Ares and Aphrodite? What moons are we? _______________ 51. I am is the goddess of love and beauty. What planet am I? _______________ 52. I am the god of commerce, travel and thievery, the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes, the messenger of the Gods. What planet am I? Adapted from S.Baker’s Astronomy Scavenger Hunt & Past & Present Scavenger Hunt Both can be found at www.sciencespot.net G.Baker www.thesciencequeen.net