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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Theories
How old is Earth?
$100 Answer from Theories
4.6 Billion years old
$200 Question from Theories
What is the most widely accepted
theory about the Moon’s formation?
$200 Answer from Theories
Impact theory: a collision
between Earth and another
object 4.5 billion years ago,
ejecting Earth’s outer layers,
creating the moon.
$300 Question from Theories
What is the Big Bang?
$300 Answer from Theories
Theory that suggests the
Origin and evolution of the
Universe
$400 Question from Theories
How old is the sun?
$400 Answer from Theories
5 billion years old
$500 Question from Theories
How was the Sun formed?
$500 Answer from Theories
A cloud of gas and dust collapse and fuse together due to
gravity
$100 Question from Galaxies
What type of galaxy is the milky way?
$100 Answer from Galaxies
Spiral
$200 Question from Galaxies
What type of Galaxy is shown in
this picture?
$200 Answer Galaxies
Spiral
$300 Question Galaxies
What type of galaxy is shown
in this picture?
$300 Answer Galaxies
Elliptical
$400 Question from Galaxies
Explain a black hole.
$400 Answer from Galaxies
A region of space packed tightly with
Matter and gravity that nothing even
Light can escape.
$500 Question from Galaxies
Name AND describe all three
types of galaxies.
$500 Answer Galaxies
Spiral – Pinwheel shaped
Elliptical – Football shaped
Irregular – No particular shape
$100 Question from General
Astro Q’s
What is the difference between
rotation and revolution?
$100 Answer from General Astro
Q’s
Rotation is one spin around Earth’s
axis (one day)
Revolution is one trip around the
sun (one year)
$200 Question from General
Astro Q’s
What is an aurora?
$200 Answer from General Astro
Q’s
The result of the particles from
the Sun colliding with the gases
in Earth’s magnetic field.
Results in brilliant colors
$300 Question from General
Astro Q’s
What direction does Earth rotate?
$300 Answer from General Astro
Q’s
Counter-clockwise
$400 Question from General
Astro Q’s
What is the difference in a waxing
moon and a waning moon?
$400 Answer from General Astro
Q’s
A waxing moon is increasing in
light. A waning moon in decreasing
in light.
$500 Question from General
Astro Q’s
Describe the orbit of the Earth.
$500 Answer from General Astro
Q’s
Aphelion-longest distance of a planet
From the sun(foci)
Perihelion-smallest distance of a planet
From the sun(foci)
Ellipse-shape of orbit (stretched circle)
$100 Question from Stars
What type of star is our sun?
$100 Answer from Stars
Main Sequence
$200 Question from Stars
What does a star become as it
begins to die and cool down?
$200 Answer from Stars
White dwarf
$300 Question from Stars
On the H-R Diagram, which type
of star is hottest? What color does it
burn?
$300 Answer from Stars
Main sequence; blue
$400 Question from Stars
Name the 5 types of stars.
$400 Answer from Stars
Supergiants, Giants, Main
Sequence, White Dwarfs,
Neutron Stars
$500 Question from Stars
What chemical reaction as a
byproduct produces energy
for stars?
$500 Answer from Stars
Fusion
$100 Question from
Seasons/moon
What is it called when the length of
day and night are equal?
$100 Answer from Seasons/moon
Equinox
$200 Question from
Seasons/moon
What occurs when the moon moves
directly between the sun and Earth and
throws a shadow on Earth?
$200 Answer from Seasons/moon
Solar Eclipse
$300 Question from
Seasons/moon
Name the 4 seasons and their start
Dates.
$300 Answer from Seasons/moon
Spring-03/21(2)
Winter-12/21(2)
Summer-06 /21(2)
Fall-09 /21(2)
$400 Question from
Seasons/moon
Why do seasons occur?
$400 Answer from Seasons/moon
Tilt of the earth + shape of earth=
Different anglesAt which the sun’s rays
hit the earth
$500 Question from
Seasons/moon
Contrast lunar and solar eclipse.
$500 Answer from Seasons/moon
Solar Eclipse – Moon travels
between Earth and Sun, blocking out
the sun.
Lunar Eclipse – Earth travels
between Sun and Moon, creating a
shadow on the moon, blocking it out.
Final Jeopardy
Name the phases of the moon in order and
Describe what side is lit-up.
Final Jeopardy Answer
New moon-nothing is illuminated
1st quarter-1/2 right side illuminated (waxing)
Full moon-all of the moon is illuminated
3rd/last quarter-left ½ side is illuminated (waning)
Waning crescent-left side crescent is illuminated