1. Science Jeopardy
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Space objects
Solar system
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3. Inner Planets 100
ANSWER: This process occurs when molten rock moves from a planets interior to it’s surface.
QUESTION: What is volcanism?

4. Inner Planets 200
ANSWER: These are the processes of material being moved by wind on any of the terrestrial planets.
QUESTION: What are weathering and erosion?

5. Inner Planets 300
ANSWER: This is how cliffs were formed on Mercury.
QUESTION: What is tectonics?

6. The Inner Planets 400
ANSWER: This covers much of the southern hemisphere of Mars.
QUESTION: What are impact craters?

7. The Inner Planets 500
ANSWER: These are the inner planets in order by mass from greatest to least.
QUESTION: What is Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury?

8. The Outer Planets 100
ANSWER: This is what causes Jupiter's fast winds and stormy weather.
QUESTION: What is it’s rotation speed?

9. The Outer Planets 200
ANSWER: This is something all of the outer planets have around their equators.
QUESTION: What are ring systems?

10. The Outer Planets 300
ANSWER: These are the two gases that make up the majority of the outer planets’ atmospheres.
QUESTION: What are helium and hydrogen?

11. The Outer Planets 400
ANSWER: This is what causes the different colored bands on the outer planets.
QUESTION: What is wind storms?

12. The Outer Planets 500
ANSWER: These are three ways that gas giants are different from the terrestrial planets.
QUESTION: What are they
Have no solid surface
Have more mass
Have a larger diameter
Are made of gases
Orbit in the OUTER solar system
Have rings?

13. Space Objects 100
ANSWER: This is why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
QUESTION: What is it does not dominate it’s solar neighborhood?

14. Space Objects 200
ANSWER: This is how many of the giant planets have moon systems.
QUESTION: What is all?

15. Space Objects 300
ANSWER: These objects are small solid, rocky bodies that orbit close to the sun.
QUESTION: What are asteroids ?

16. Space Objects 400
ANSWER: This is the difference between a meteor and meteorite.
QUESTION: What is a meteorite reaches the Earth’s surface ?

17. Space Objects 500
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?

18. Solar System 100
ANSWER: This is what the average distance between the earth and the sun is called.
QUESTION: What is an Astronomical Unit? ( AU)

19. Solar System 200 ANSWER: The shape of a planet’s orbit.
QUESTION: What is an ellipse?

20. Solar System 300
ANSWER: This is the cloud of gas and dust that the solar system formed from.
QUESTION: What is a nebula?

21. Solar System 400
ANSWER: This is what is similar about the planets’ orbits and many other motions of the solar system.
QUESTION: What is they are all counter-clockwise?

22. Solar System 500
ANSWER: This is the planets in our solar system listed from the farthest from the sun to the closest.
QUESTION: What is Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury?

23. Miscellaneous: 100
ANSWER: The feature of Jupiter shown in the picture .
QUESTION: What is the great red spot/storm?

24. Miscellaneous: 200
ANSWER: This is the color of Pluto’s orbit in the diagram.
QUESTION: What is red?

25. Miscellaneous: 300
ANSWER: This is the space object shown in the picture.
QUESTION: What is an asteroid?

26. B A Miscellaneous: 400 ANSWER: This is what letter A is composed of.
QUESTION: What is water ice chunks? B A

27. Miscellaneous: 500
ANSWER: The letter of the process that creates mountains, valleys, and cliffs on terrestrial planets.
QUESTION: What is letter A? C D A B

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: These are the names of Jupiter’s four largest moons and the largest moon of the four.
QUESTION: What are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?

29. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: These are the names of Jupiter’s four largest moons and the smallest moon of the four.
QUESTION: What are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?

30. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The planet(s) in the solar system that lack moons.
QUESTION: What are Mercury and Venus?