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1 Atmosphere Jeopardy Review
Early Astronomy Motion Moon Solar System Hodgepodge 10 20 30 40 50

2 Who was the first astronomer to use a telescope?
Category 1 – 10 Galileo

3 Who determined the location of almost 850 stars?
Category 1 – 20 Hipparchus

4 Who discovered that planets have an elliptical orbit?
Category Kepler

5 Who was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth?
Category Eratosthenes

6 Whose most important contributions were his descriptions of the behavior of moving objects?
Category Galileo

7 What is the turning, or spinning, of a body on its axis?
Category Rotation

8 What is the time in January when Earth is closest to the sun?
Category Perihelion

9 What is the point at which the moon is farthest from the Earth?
Category 2 – 30 Apogee

10 The ___ month is based on the cycle of the moon’s phases?
Category 2 – 40 Synodic

11 What is the time it takes for the Earth to make one complete rotation with respect to a star other than the sun? Category 2 – 50 Sidereal Day

12 What are depressions produced by a meteorite impact called?
Category Craters

13 ? Category Waxing Crescent

14 What are the densely pitted, light-colored areas that make up most of the lunar surface called?
Category Highlands

15 What are lunar phases a result of?
Category The motion of the moon & the sunlight that is reflected from its surface.

16 Explain the most widely accepted model for the origin of the moon?
Category When the solar system was forming, a body the size of Mars impacted Earth. The resulting debris was ejected into space, began orbiting around Earth, and eventually united to form the moon.

17 List the Terrestrial Planets.
Category Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

18 What is a small body made of rocky & metallic pieces held together by frozen gases?
Category Comet

19 What are the small, irregularly shaped bodies formed from colliding matter called?
Category Planetesimals

20 Explain the Nebular Theory.
Category The sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases.

21 Comets with long orbital periods form a spherical shell around the solar system called the __________. Category Oort Cloud

22 What is the study of the properties of objects in space and the laws under which the universe operates? Category Astronomy

23 What is the average distance between the Earth and the sun?
Category Astronomical Unit (AU)

24 What eclipse occurs when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow?
Category Lunar Eclipse

25 What is the apparent westward motion of the planets with respect to the stars?
Category Retrograde Motion

26 What force was Newton the first to formulate and test?
Category Law of Universal Gravitation (gravity)

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