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Space
Solar
System
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Light
Laws of
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Grab Bag
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The age of the universe
What is 13.7 billion years old?
The cloud of dust and gas from
which a star is born
What is a
nebula?
After a supergiant star explodes it
can become a neutron star or a…
What is black hole?
The type of galaxy that is pictured
What is a spiral galaxy?
The scientific principle that tells us
that far off galaxies are spreading
out at an increasingly fast rate
What is the Doppler effect
(or red shift)?
The name of the planets in order
What is
These planets are the gas giants
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune
The name of this type of eclipse
What is a solar eclipse?
This event caused seasons
What is the collision that created
the moon?
The phase of the sun’s life after its
main sequence phase.
What is a red giant phase?
Visible light is part of this spectrum.
What is the electromagnetic
spectrum?
The color with the longest
wavelength
What is
RED?
What happens to wavelength as you
move toward an emitting object
What is they would shrink?
The type of waves that made this
picture
What are
microwaves?
The man that used the Doppler
Effect to state that the universe is
expanding
Who was Edwin Hubble?
The reason why stuff falls
What is gravity?
The speed of a cheetah that ran
100 m in 5 s
What is 20 m/s?
Newton’s
rd
3
Law of Motion
What is…for every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction
Another name mass times
acceleration
What is force?
DAILY
DOUBLE
A fancy car is decelerating at a rate of 2
m/s/s and after 10 seconds is now going
10 m/s, state its initial velocity
4.5 billion years
What is the age of the Earth?
This variable is the one that you alter
because you want to see its effect on
something else
What is the independent variable?
This is the time of year when Rhode
Islanders are the closest to the sun
When is winter (or perihelion)?
This is the last element that can be
fused within a star
What is iron?
The invention of Alfred Nobel that
made him feel really guilty and start
giving away prizes for doing good
stuff
What is dynamite?
FINAL JEOPARDY: ORBITS
The year length (orbit
period) of a planet that is
4 AU from the sun
8 years
2
p
=
3
r