Jeopardy Planetary Motion Sun Inner Planets Outer Planets Solar System Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
Planetary Motion 100 The Earth’s rotational axis is tilted ______ from the vertical.
What is “23.5 o ”? Planetary Motion 100
Day and night are caused by the ______ of the Earth on its axis. Planetary Motion 200
What is “rotation”? Planetary Motion 200
The type of motion pictured below Planetary Motion 300
What is “precession”? Planetary Motion 300
Planetary Motion 400 Name the season North Carolina is in as shown in the diagram below and explain why.
What is “winter because the Earth is tilted away from the sun”? Planetary Motion 400
Does the moon orbit the Earth around a point that is midway between the Earth and moon or is that point below Earth’s surface? Name the point that balances the masses of the Earth and moon. Planetary Motion 500
What is “the point is about 1700 km below the Earth’s surface and is called the barycenter”? Planetary Motion 500
Sun 100 The visible surface of the sun that radiates the light we see.
What is the “photosphere”? Sun 100
Sun feature shown in the diagram below: Sun 200
What is a “prominence”? Sun 200
Name the sun features shown here and the potentially dangerous phenomena associated with them. Sun 300
What are “sunspots and solar flares”? Sun 300
Sun’s Power What “fuel” powers the sun? What process is the fuel used to create energy? Into what gas is this “fuel” converted? Where does this occur in the sun? Sun 400
What is “Hydrogen fuel Nuclear fusion Creates helium Occurs in the sun’s core”? Sun 400
The diagram below is a(n) ________. Plants contain what green pigment to trap visible light. Plants and other producers most strongly absorb ____ light. Sun 500
What is “Electromagnetic spectrum Chlorophyll Red and blue light”? Sun 500
The inner planets are also known as the __________ planets since they are largely composed of metallic minerals. Inner Planets 100
What is “rocky or terrestrial”? Inner Planets 100
Earth’s twin planet Inner Planets 200
What is “Venus”? Inner Planets 200
Planet with the greatest temperature extremes Inner Planets 300
What is “Mercury”? Inner Planets 300
Inner planet with huge volcanoes and canyons—much larger than those on Earth Inner Planets 400
What is “Mars”? Inner Planets 400
The surface of Venus was mapped by radar because… Inner Planets 500
What is Venus is covered in such thick clouds visible light cannot penetrate the atmosphere. Inner Planets 500
The outer planets are also known as Jovian planets or _____ _______, referring to their size and composition. Outer Planets 100
What are the “gas giants”? Outer Planets 100
The planet that rotates on its side as it orbits the sun Outer Planets 200
What is “Uranus”? Outer Planets 200
Outer Planets 300 Windy Planet with Great Dark Spot
What is “Neptune”? Outer Planets 300
This planet would float in water Outer Planets 400
What is “Saturn”? Outer Planets 400
Name two of the four major ice compounds found in the outer planets as atmospheres or rings Outer Planets 500
What are “carbon dioxide, water, ammonia, and methane”? Outer Planets 500
A meteoroid that has made it to the surface of the Earth is called a ____. Solar System 100
What is a “meteorite”? Solar System 100
Solar System 200 The birthplace of solar systems seen below, rotating clouds of dust and gas
What is “a nebula or nebulae (plural)”? Solar System 200
Solar System 300 The planet that is believed to have a liquid hydrogen surface
Solar System 300 What is “Jupiter”?
Solar System 400 Name two of the three volcanically active bodies in our solar system.
Solar System 400 What are “Earth, Io ( a moon of Jupiter) and Neptune’s moon Triton”?
Identify the comet structure indicated below and give one of the two regions from which most comets originate Solar System 500
What is “the coma and the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud”? Solar System 500
Final Jeopardy An apparent change in the frequency or wavelength of sound or light as it moves toward or away from an observer is known as this…Explain how this phenomenon has been used by scientists to explain the universe is expanding.
Final Jeopardy Answer What is “the Doppler effect and all light studied from stars or galaxies has been red (so moving away)”?