1. Science Jeopardy
Exploring Space
Telescopes
EM Spectrum
Spacecraft
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3. Exploring Space 100
ANSWER: This a group of stars held together by their own gravity.
QUESTION: What is a galaxy?

4. Exploring Space 200
ANSWER: This is a group of stars that forms a pattern in the sky.
QUESTION: What is a constellation?

5. Exploring Space 300
ANSWER: This star is known as the North Star.
QUESTION: What is Polaris?

6. Exploring Space 400
ANSWER: This causes constellations to rise and set in the sky.
QUESTION: What is the Earth’s rotation?

7. Exploring Space 500
ANSWER: This is the correct arrangement of the universe from smallest to largest.
QUESTION: What is Earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe?

8. Telescopes 100
ANSWER: This type of telescope uses mirrors to gather light.
QUESTION: What is a reflecting telescope?

9. Telescopes 200
ANSWER: This part of a radio telescope gathers radiation.
QUESTION: What is the dish?

10. Telescopes 300
ANSWER: This is the advantage that the Hubble Space Telescope has over all ground-based telescopes.
QUESTION: What is it is not affected by the Earth’s atmosphere?

11. Telescopes 400
ANSWER: This is the type of wave that reflecting and refracting telescopes gather.
QUESTION: What is visible light?

12. Telescopes 500
ANSWER: The name and type of the largest telescope observatory in the world.
QUESTION: What is Arecibo and radio?

13. EM Spectrum 100
ANSWER: This is made up of all the different forms of electromagnetic radiation.
QUESTION: What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

14. EM Spectrum 200
ANSWER: This type of wave has the longest wavelength.
QUESTION: What are radio waves?

15. EM Spectrum 300
ANSWER: This is the difference between UV and infrared radiation.
QUESTION: What is wavelength and the amount of energy?

16. EM Spectrum 400
ANSWER: This is the device that separates the visible light spectrum.
QUESTION: What is a spectroscope or a prism?

17. EM Spectrum 500
ANSWER: This is the correct order of colors in the visible light spectrum from the shortest to the longest wavelength.
QUESTION: What is violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red?

18. Spacecraft: 100
ANSWER: This is the purpose of all spacecraft.
QUESTION: What is to study space?

19. Spacecraft: 200
ANSWER: This type of spacecraft does not travel to other planets to gather information.
QUESTION: What is a space station?

20. Spacecraft: 300
ANSWER: This is Earth’s natural satellite.
QUESTION: What is the moon?

21. Spacecraft: 400
ANSWER: This is the number of nations involved in the development of the International Space Station.
QUESTION: What is 17?

22. Spacecraft: 500
ANSWER: These are the 2 types of spacecraft that were used in the 1995 Galileo Mission.
QUESTION: What is an orbiter and a probe?

23. Miscellaneous: 100
ANSWER: These are the 2 reasons why telescopes are built on mountain tops and in rural areas.
QUESTION: What is to avoid city lights and atmospheric interference?

24. Miscellaneous: 200
ANSWER: Classify this spacecraft.
QUESTION: What is a probe?

25. Miscellaneous: 300
ANSWER: This is the star that is closest to Earth.
QUESTION: What is the Sun?

26. Miscellaneous: 400
ANSWER: This is the unit of measurement that light travels in one year.
QUESTION: What is a light year?

27. Miscellaneous: 500
ANSWER: These celestial bodies have been reached by lander spacecraft.
QUESTION: What are the moon, Mars, and Venus?

28. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The names and type(s) of the 2 rocks scientists found on the moon.
QUESTION: What is basalt (igneous) and breccia (sedimentary)?

29. Final Jeopardy ANSWER: The number of kilometers in a light year.
QUESTION: What is 9.5 trillion kilometers?

30. Final Jeopardy
ANSWER: The number of times the Mars Pathfinder lander bounced on the Martian surface before coming to a stop.
QUESTION: What is 16?

31. Final Jeopardy ANSWER: The number of miles in a light year.
QUESTION: What is 6 trillion miles?