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Final Jeopardy
06-17-10
• Science Jeopardy
• Study for Final
What was your
favorite lab activity
in 8th grade Earth
science?
06-17-10
To review important terms and
concepts of space science.
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•ANSWER: This is how much of Earth is
in sunlight at any one time.
•QUESTION: What is half?
• ANSWER: This is how long it takes
Earth to make one turn on its axis.
• QUESTION: What is 24 hours?
• ANSWER: This is how long it takes
earth to orbit the Sun once.
• QUESTION: What is one year?
• ANSWER: This is what causes the
changes in the amount of sunlight at a
location during the course of a year.
• QUESTION: What is the tilt of
Earth’s axis?
• ANSWER: This is what happens to
Earth’s axis during an orbit.
• QUESTION: What is it doesn’t
change?
• ANSWER: This process occurs when
molten rock moves from a planet’s
interior to it’s surface.
• QUESTION: What is volcanism?
• ANSWER: This is the process of
material being moved by wind on
any of the terrestrial planets.
• QUESTION: What is erosion?
• ANSWER: This is how cliffs were
formed on Mercury.
• QUESTION: What is tectonics?
• ANSWER: This covers much of the
southern hemisphere of Mars.
• QUESTION: What are impact
craters?
• ANSWER: These are the inner planets
in order by mass from greatest to least.
• QUESTION: What is Earth, Venus,
Mars, Mercury?
• ANSWER: This is what causes
Jupiter's fast winds and stormy
weather.
• QUESTION: What is it’s rotation
speed?
• ANSWER: This is something all of
the outer planets have around their
equators.
• QUESTION: What are ring
systems?
• ANSWER: These are the two gases that
make up the majority of the outer
planets’ atmospheres.
• QUESTION: What are helium and
hydrogen?
• ANSWER: This is what causes the
different colored bands on the outer
planets.
• QUESTION: What is wind storms?
• ANSWER: These are three ways that gas
giants are different from the terrestrial planets.
• QUESTION: What are they
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Have no solid surface
Have more mass
Have a larger diameter
Are made of gases
Orbit in the OUTER solar system
Have rings?
• ANSWER: This is why Pluto is no
longer considered a planet.
• QUESTION: What is it does not
dominate it’s solar neighborhood?
• ANSWER: This is how many of the
giant planets have moon systems.
• QUESTION: What is all?
• ANSWER: These objects are small
solid, rocky bodies that orbit close to
the sun.
• QUESTION: What are asteroids ?
• ANSWER: This is the difference
between a meteor and meteorite.
• QUESTION: What is a meteorite
reaches the Earth’s surface ?
• ANSWER: This is the reason why the
tail always faces away from the sun
on a comet
• QUESTION: What is the sun’s
radiation pushes the comet’s
material away?
• ANSWER: This is how many weeks
it takes for a moon to go through the
phase cycle.
• QUESTION: What is four weeks?
• ANSWER: This is the half of the
moon’s monthly cycle that it appears
to wax, or grow.
• QUESTION: What is the first half?
• ANSWER: These are the two words
to describe the shape of the moon as
it changes.
• QUESTION: What are crescent and
gibbous ?
• ANSWER: These are the two names of
the moon when it is half lit.
• QUESTION: What are first quarter and
third quarter?
• ANSWER: These are the phases of the
moon starting with new moon.
• QUESTION: What are new moon,
waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing
gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third
quarter, waning crescent?
• ANSWER: These are the names of
Jupiter’s four largest moons.
• QUESTION: What are Io, Europa,
Ganymede, and Callisto?