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History
Jovian
Planets
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The Earth
Cratered
Worlds
Radiation
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History for $100
A complex model of the
Universe popular until
the 1600’s, it contained
epicycles and
deferents.
What is the
geocentric
model?
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History for $200
The first person to use a
telescope to view the sky.
Who is Galileo?
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History for $300
He created 3 laws describing
the motion of planets around
the Sun
Who is Kepler?
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History for $400
He measured the size
of the Earth using
shadows in a well.
Who is Eratosthenes?
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History for $500
He kept a detailed record of
the orbit of Mars in an
attempt to find math useful
in modeling orbits.
Who is Tycho
Brahe?
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Jovian Planets for $100
The Jovian Planet with
the lowest density.
What is Saturn?
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Jovian Planets for $200
A term describing the
different rotation rates at
different parts of the
planet (or the sun).
What is
differential
rotation?
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Jovian Planets for $300
The critical distance from a
planet, inside of which a
moon can be tidally
destroyed.
What is the
Roche limit?
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Jovian Planets for $400
This planet does not
have an internal
heat source.
What is Uranus?
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Jovian Planets for $500
The Galileo orbiter
explored this planet
for eight years.
What is
Jupiter?
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The Earth for $100
Produced by moving
electrical charges.
What is a
magnetic field?
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The Earth for $200
An event used to map
the Earth’s mantle and
core
What is an
earthquake?
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The Earth for $300
The primary type of
rock that the ocean
floors are composed of.
What is basalt?
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The Earth for $400
The primary gas
responsible for the
greenhouse effect on
Earth.
What is carbon
dioxide?
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The Earth for $500
The result of 2 tectonic
plates separating.
What is a rift or
fault?
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Cratered Worlds for $100
The large, dark and
younger regions on the
Moon?
What are Maria.
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Cratered Worlds for $200
The currently accepted
theory of the origin of the
Moon.
What is the Giant
Impact Theory?
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Cratered Worlds for $300
The reason there are more
and larger craters on
Mercury and the Moon
than other terrestrial
planets.
What is the lack of
an atmosphere (or
erosion)?
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Cratered Worlds for $400
The laboratory
method used to date
the lunar samples.
What is
radioactive
dating?
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The landing site of
Apollo 11.
The Sea of
Tranquility
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Radiation for $100
The highest frequency in
the electromagnetic
spectrum.
What are gamma
rays.
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Radiation for $200
The color of visible
light with the highest
energy.
What is violet?
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Radiation for $300
One of two forms of
electromagnetic radiation
that penetrate the Earth’s
atmosphere
What are radio
waves and visible
light.
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Radiation for $400
The relationship
between the
temperature of a star
and the wavelength
of the radiation it
emits.
What is Wein’s
Law?
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Radiation for $500
The name of the law
that describes how
light gets dimmer
further from its
source.
What is the
Inverse-Square
law?
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