Jeopardy Science Unit Solar System

Solar Vocab System Vocab Planets Objects in the sky Bonus

A craft that carries instruments to explore space? Click for answer

The Sun and other objects that orbit it make up the? Click for answer

When planets move around the Sun, they it? Click for answer

A small round body that orbits a planet? Click for answer

A tool that makes distant objects look larger? Click for answer

A large body that orbits the Sun and does not produce light? Click for answer

When you make an object look larger, you the object? Click for answer

An imaginary line through the center of an object? Click for answer

A ball of hot gases that gives off light and other forms of energy? Click for answer

What are the four Seasons? Click for answer

The Earth on it’s axis? Click for answer

The Moon around the Earth? Click for answer

When the Moon’s near side is sun lit it is called a? Click for answer

When the Moon’s near side receives no sunlight it is called a? Click for answer

Name the four inner planets? Click for answer

Name the outer planets? Click for answer

Jupiter is a because of its size and make up? Click for answer

What characterizes the inner planets? Click for answer

What characterizes the outer planets? Click for answer

Which planet is not a planet or it could be called a dwarf? Click for answer

Which planet is named for the Greek god of Speed because it orbits the Sun so quickly? Click for answer

The way the Moon looks when seen from Earth are the? Click for answer

When the Moon becomes visible again and appears as a thin shape, the phase is called? Click for answer

When half of the Moon’s near side is sunlit it is a? Click for answer

Following a new moon an increasing amount of the moon’s near side is sunlit. This is called? Click for answer

Following a full moon, the moon is said to be? Click for answer

What causes the phases of the moon? Click for answer

A group of stars that form a pattern in called a? Click for answer

What is the an acronym to help you remember the names of the planets? Click for answer

What causes the cycle of night and day? Click for answer

At what time of day will your shadow be shortest? Click for answer

An imaginary line that circles the Earth half way between the North Pole and the South Pole? Click for answer

How many days does it take the Earth to revolve around the Sun? Click for answer

How many hours does it take the Earth to revolve once on its axix? Click for answer

What causes the cycle of the seasons? Click for answer

Space Probe

Solar System

Orbit

Moon

Telescope

Planet

Magnify

Axis

Star

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Rotates

Revolves

Full Moon

New Moon

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (Pluto is a dwarf)

Gas Giant

Small, rocky, close to the Sun and have few moons

Far from the Sun, made of Gas, Large, have rings, cold

Pluto

Mercury

Phases of the Moon

Crescent moon

Quarter moon

Waxing Moon

Waning

The Moon revolves around the Earth

Constellation

My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas

The Earth Rotates on its axis

Noon

Equator

365 1/4

24 hours

The tilt of the Earth