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SPACE JEOPARDY
Final
Jeopardy
THE MOON
The Earth
The Solar
System
Exploration
The
Universe
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The Moon for 100
What would be a
good way to
investigate the
phases of the
moon?
Draw it every night for
a month
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The Moon for 200
What is the movement of Earth
on its axis called? What is the
movement of Earth around the
sun called?
On its axis – rotation
Around the sun - revolution
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The Moon for 300
Sun
Moon
Earth
How many days would pass before the
moon was on the other side of Earth?
14 - it takes about 28 days to revolve around
the Earth
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The Moon for 400
Describe the
movement of the
Earth, the moon, and
the sun.
The moon revolves around the Earth while the
Earth revolves around the sun. The earth and
moon rotate on their axis
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The Moon for 500
What phase would the moon be in?
Waning crescent
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The Earth for 100
In what month would
Utah have the greatest
number of daylight
hours per day?
June
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The Earth for 200
In what month
would the sun’s
light strike Utah at
the lowest angle?
December
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The Earth for 300
B.
C.
A
.
The Sun
D.
In what season would the Northern
Hemisphere be at C?
Winter
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The Earth for 400
B.
C.
A
.
The Sun
D.
In what season would the Northern
Hemisphere be at D?
Fall
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The Earth for 500
B.
C.
A
.
The Sun
D.
At which positions will the day and night
hours be equal in length?
B and D
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Solar System for 100
What holds the
planets in their orbits
around the sun?
Gravity
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The Solar System for 200
Which object has the
most gravity?
A. Earth
C. Jupiter
B. Moon
D. Sun
Sun - the more mass an object
has, the more gravity if will have
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Solar System for 300
Without gravity,
what would be the
shape of the solar
system?
There wouldn’t be a shape. It would be nothing like
it is now.
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Solar System for 400
Why are the pictures
of the solar system in
books not accurate?
The planets are much farther apart than a
book can show. The pictures are not to scale.
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Solar System for 500
What would happen to
Earth if it started going
faster around the sun?
It would travel away from the sun
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Exploration for 100
Why is space travel difficult for people?
A. We can’t take the food & oxygen we need into space
B. The distances are great making it dangerous &
expensive
C. It is impossible to escape the sun’s and Earth’s
gravity
D. We don’t have a destination that we know will
support life
B
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Exploration for 200
Which instrument
would be the best to
help you see the rings
on Saturn?
A telescope
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Exploration for 300
Some objects such as
black holes are
invisible in space yet
astronomers know
they exist. On what
do they base their
knowledge:
The objects give off radio or X-ray that we can analyze
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Exploration for 400
How have computers
aided our
understanding of
space?
They are able to take in large
amounts of data and process it
quickly
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Exploration for 500
Which constellation
will
people
see
when
A
Position
Position B
Earth is in position
1
2
1?
How long will it take before they can see
the other constellation?
A – they will be at position 2 in 180 days (6
months)
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The Universe for 100
If you watched the night
sky for several hours, how
would the stars appear to
be moving?
Around the North Star
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The Universe for 200
What are galaxies made
of?
Many millions of stars
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The Universe for 300
A.
B.
C.
D.
What do the stars in a
constellation have in
common?
Brightness
Distance from Earth
Same Size
Same general direction from
Earth
D
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The Universe for 400
Early astronomers
thought that galaxies
were single stars. Why
was this mistake easy to
make?
Galaxies are so far away that all the stars blend and
look like a single star
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Odyssey Vocabulary for 500
Which stars do we always
see during the year?
Those stars over the North Pole
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FINAL JEOPARDY
A
C.
D
B
Which constellation is
located between “A” and
“B”? What star is “D”?
The Big Dipper – Polaris (North Star)
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