ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY Our Solar System Properties of Stars Galaxies Life of a Star Star Dust

Our Solar System- 100 Points Name the 4 inner planets. What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?

Our Solar System Points Describe why they are called the terrestrial planets. What is they are small, dense, rocky surfaces? Or What is they all have a crust, mantel and iron core?

Our Solar System Points Name the 4 outer planets. What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?

Our Solar System Points Describe the composition of the gas giants. What is primarily hydrogen and helium?

Our Solar System Points Describe the composition of a comet. What is dirt and ice?

Properties of Stars- 100 Points Stellar distances are measured in … What are light years?

Properties of Stars Points The Hertzsprung- Russell Diagram gives surface temperature, color, and… What is absolute brightness?

Properties of Stars Points As the Earth moves the same star can be observed and the distance measured in comparison to distant stars. This is called… What is the parallax?

Properties of Stars Points List these stars in order from coolest to hottest. What is A, B, D, C?

Properties of Stars Points Which is the brighter star Betelgeuse or a white dwarf… What is Betelgeuse?

Galaxies Points The name of our galaxy and its shape… What is the Milky Way and spiral?

Galaxies Points Galaxies are made of… (name 3 things) What is gas, dust, stars, planets, moons, rocks?

Galaxies Points Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiral galaxy. Name 2 other types of galaxies. What is barred-spiral, elliptical, irregular?

Galaxies Points What is Hubble’s Law? What is the galaxies farthest away are moving the fastest?

Galaxies Points One of two reasons we know the universe is expanding…. What is Hubble’s Law or Red Shift?

Life of a Star Points When clouds of dust start out cold and gravity starts to compress them this nursery for a star is called a … (Hint: no birth yet) What is a Nebula?

Life of a Star Points When there is equilibrium between the stellar fusion pushing out and the gravity pulling in the star is called… (Hint: our sun is this type of star) What is a main sequence?

DAILY DOUBLE – Life of a Star The core of this star is very hot and the helium starts to fuse into carbon as the star swells larger. What is a Red Giant?

Life of a Star Points Sirius B is an example of this type of “retired” (dying) star which is very dense and the gravity isn’t working anymore. What is a White Dwarf?

Life of a Star Points When a massive star dies, it expands to 100 million times its size and explodes. This is called… What is a Supernova?

Star Dust Points Our sun is this type of star… What is a main sequence star?

Star Dust Points Galaxies are held together by… What is gravity?

Star Dust Points The energy from a protostar is produced when ___________ is converted to _________ What hydrogen and helium?

Star Dust Points The name of the giant telescope that has taken many wonderful photographs of the universe What is Hubble?

Star Dust Points When massively large stars die with a great explosion and such great a force of gravity that anything falling into it, including e-m waves becomes trapped and light cannot escape.. What is a Black Hole?

The process of hydrogen protons converting to helium with energy produced is called What is nuclear or stellar fusion? FINAL JEOPARDY!