StellarJeopardy IntroductionLife CycleStarsGalaxiesFormation of the Universe Final Jeopardy

Question Answer Introduction-100 ANSWER: Put the following in order from smallest to largest: galaxy, universe, star, galaxy cluster QUESTION: star, galaxy, galaxy cluster, universe

Question Answer Introduction -200 ANSWER: The star system that is closest to Earth, excluding the sun. QUESTION: What is Alpha Centuri?

Question Answer Introduction -300 ANSWER: The fuel that maintains the burning of the sun. As it is used, it decreases and helium increases. QUESTION: What is hydrogen?

Question Answer Introduction -400 ANSWER: Holds a star together. QUESTION: What is gravity?

Question Answer Introduction ANSWER: This helps to measure the distance of the star from earth. QUESTION: What is absolute magnitude?

Question Answer Life Cycle -100 ANSWER: Happens to a star when its fuel is consumed QUESTION: What is it will dim or die out?

Question Answer Life Cycle -200 ANSWER: Occurs in the core of a star QUESTION: What is nuclear fusion? (H+H=He)

Question Answer Life Cycle -300 ANSWER: Where most stars are located on the HR diagram QUESTION: What is the main sequence?

Question Answer Life Cycle -400 ANSWER: Quanities labeled on the HR diagram QUESTION: What are absolute magnitude and temperature?

Question Answer LifeCycle -500 ANSWER: Sequence that an average size star goes through late in its life QUESTION: What is red giant – white dwarf – black dwarf?

Question Answer Stars -100 ANSWER: This color represents cool stars QUESTION: What is red?

Question Answer Stars -200 ANSWER: The gas that fuels the sun. QUESTION: What is hydrogen?

Question Answer Stars-300 ANSWER: How the magnitudes of stars are denoted (+ and -) QUESTION: What is negative is brighter and positive is dimmer?

Question Answer Stars -400 ANSWER: Parallax is small when QUESTION: What is the object is far away from Earth?

Question Answer Stars -500 ANSWER: Spectra produced when light passes from a hot solid through a cool gas QUESTION: What is absorption spectra?

Question Answer Galaxies -100 ANSWER: How galaxies are classified QUESTION: What is by shape?

Question Answer Galaxies -200 ANSWER: A group of stars that are close together relative to surrounding stars QUESTION: What is an open cluster?

Question Answer Galaxies -300 ANSWER: Astronomers observe these to investigate the origin of the universe QUESTION: What are quasars?

Question Answer Galaxies -400 ANSWER: This is a gas cloud QUESTION: What is a nebula?

Question Answer Galaxies -500 ANSWER: The three types of galaxies QUESTION: What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?

Question Answer Formation of the Universe -100 ANSWER: Structure of the universe QUESTION: What is every object is a part of a larger system?

Question Answer Formation of the Universe -200 ANSWER: A theory explaining the beginning of the universe as an explosion causing galaxies to move away from one another QUESTION: What is the Big Bang?

Question Answer Formation of the Universe -300 ANSWER: Two observations that support the Big Bang Theory QUESTION: What is Red Shift and Background Radiation?

Question Answer Formation of the Universe -400 ANSWER: The study of the origin, properties, processes, and evolution of the universe QUESTION: What is cosmology?

Question Answer Formation of the Universe -500 ANSWER: The theory that scientists currently believe in regards to the universe expansion QUESTION: What is there is not enough matter to stop expansion, and it will continue forever?

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: The future of a massive star after main sequence QUESTION: What is Super Red Giant – Neutron star (if smaller) – Black Hole (if larger)