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Tour of the Solar System
Geojeopardy: Ms. Hammang
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Final Jeopardy
The Solar System- 10
These are three Jovian
planets.
The Solar System– 10 answer
What are Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune
The Solar System- 20
This is the theory that
describes the formation
of our solar system.
The Solar System– 20 answer
What is the nebular
theory?
The Solar System- 30
These are two of the
three major
differences between
the Jovian and
terrestrial planets
The Solar System– 30 answer
What are density, size,
chemical makeup,
rate of rotation,
number of moons?
Solar System - 40
These are the four
terrestrial planets (in
order from distance
from sun)
The Solar System- 40 answer
What are Mercury,
Venus, Earth, Mars?
The Solar System- 50
Because of the high
temperatures near the
sun, the inner planets
formed mainly from
these substance.
The Solar System- 50 answer
What are metals and
silicate minerals?
The Terrestrial Planets - 10
This terrestrial planet
has the largest
temperature extremes
of any planet
The Terrestrial Planets - 10 answer
What is Mercury?
The Terrestrial Planets - 20
This is the major
reason why life as we
know it is unlikely to
exist on Venus.
The Terrestrial Planets– 20 answer
What is the surface
temperature is too high
(because its atmosphere
creates “a greenhouse”
to keep temperatures
high)?
The Terrestrial Planets - 30
This is the probable
reason that Mars
appears to change
colors when viewed
from Earth.
The Terrestrial Planets– 30 answer
What is Extreme dust
storms lasting for
weeks cause the
atmosphere to change
color?
The Terrestrial Planets - 40
This is the comparison
in size between
Mars’s largest volcano
and Earth’s tallest
mountain
The Terrestrial Planets– 40 answer
What is Olympus Mons is
about 2.5 times larger
than Mount Everest?
The Terrestrial Planets - 50
This is the gas that
makes up the majority
of the Martian
atmosphere.
The Terrestrial Planets– 50 answer
What is carbon
dioxide?
The Outer Planets - 10
This planet is 2.5 times
more massive than all
the other planets and
moons in the solar
system combined.
The Outer Planets – 10 answer
What is Jupiter?
The Outer Planets - 20
This is the number of
Jovian planet(s) with
ring systems.
The Outer Planets – 20 answer
What is four: Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune
The Outer Planets - 30
The planet, _______,
appears blue because
of the __________that
makes up its upper
cloud layer.
The Outer Planets – 30 answer
What is Neptune and
methane?
The Outer Planets - 40
This planet has an axis
of rotation parallel with
the plane of its orbit.
The Outer Planets – 40 answer
What is Uranus?
The Outer Planets - 50
This moon (belonging to a
Jovian planet) is one of
only three volcanically
active bodies in the solar
system.
Th Outer Planets – 50 answer
What is Io (Jupiter’s
moon)?
Solar System Minor Members - 10
The glowing head of a
comet formed when
frozen gases vaporize
Minor Members– 10 answer
What is the coma?
Minor Members - 20
A ________is a meteoroid
that enters Earth’s
atmosphere and burns up,
whereas a ___________is
a meteoroid that reaches
Earth’s surface.
Minor Members– 20 answer
What is meteor and
meteorite?
Minor Members - 30
Most asteroids lie between
the orbits of these two
planets in the “Asteroid
Belt.”
Minor Members– 30 answer
What is Mars and
Jupiter?
Minor Members - 40
This is a comet-rich area
of our solar system that
begins near the orbit of
Neptune and continues
beyond Pluto
Solar System Minor Members – 40 answer
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Solar System Minor Members- 50
This is the origin of
large craters on Earth
such as the Meteor
Crater in Arizona.
Minor Members – 50 answer
What is large meteorites
that hit Earth’s surface?
Hodgepodge – 10
Comets with long orbital
periods are distributed in
all directions from the sun
and form this spherical
shell around the solar
system.
Hodgepodge – 10 answer
What is the Oort
Cloud?
Hodgepodge – 20
Since its discovery in 1930,
_______has not even
completed one revolution,
and its orbit is eccentric
where it travels inside the
orbit of _______at times.
Hodgepodge – 20 answer
What is Pluto and
Neptune?
Hodgepodge – 30
Titan and Triton are the
only moons in the
solar system with:
Hodgepodge – 30 answer
What are significant
atmospheres?
Hodgepodge – 40
Jupiter is thought to be a
gigantic ocean of liquid
________, and its
atmosphere is composed
of _____ and ____(the
lightest elements).
Hodgepodge – 40 answer
What is hydrogen and
hydrogen-helium?
Hodgepodge – 50
When we completed the “Scale
Model of the Solar System
Lab,” the distance from Sun to
Earth was ___AU, whereas
the Jupiter distance was
___AU and Neptune’s was
___AU (1 AU=150 million km)
*get two correct
Hodgepodge – 50 answer
What is:
Earth (1 AU)
Jupiter (about 5 AU)
Neptune (about 30 AU)?
Final Jeopardy
Which bodies in our solar system
are the following structures
associated?
A. Charon
B. Ganymede
C. Red Spot
D. Polar Caps (made of CO2 and H2O)
Final Jeopardy Answer
A. Charon: Pluto
B. Ganymede: Saturn
C. Red Spot: Jupiter
D. Polar Caps (made of
CO2 and H2O): Mars