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5. 100 200 300 400 500 INNER PLANETS OUTER PLANETS AWESOME ASTRONOMERS SATELLITES ASTRONOMY HODGE-PODGE

6. INNER PLANETS 100 To which of the 2 main groups of planets does Earth belong?

7. terrestrial INNER PLANETS 100

8. INNER PLANETS 200 Describe the characteristics of the inner planets in 3 words

9. INNER PLANETS 200 small dense rocky

10. What is the most important factor that that makes life on Earth possible? INNER PLANETS 300

11. Liquid water INNER PLANETS 300

12. Which of the inner planets has the highest surface temperature? WHY?! INNER PLANETS 400

13. Venus It’s thick atmosphere has a greenhouse effect INNER PLANETS 400

14. INNER PLANETS 500 What evidence suggests that Mars once had a warmer climate?

15. INNER PLANETS 500 Dry riverbeds

16. Name the outer planets in order from the asteroid belt to the end of our solar system OUTER PLANETS 100

17. Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto OUTER PLANETS 100

18. What is the great RED spot and on which planet would you find it? OUTER PLANETS 200

19. It’s a storm similar to a hurricane on Jupiter OUTER PLANETS 200

20. Why are some of the outer planets greenish-bluish? OUTER PLANETS 300

21. Atmosphere of hydrogen and methane OUTER PLANETS 300

22. Which of the outer planets has the shortest period of revolution? OUTER PLANETS 400

23. Jupiter has the shortest year out of the outer planets OUTER PLANETS 400

24. What is the composition of the outer planets’ rings? OUTER PLANETS 500

25. Gas, dust, and ice OUTER PLANETS 500

26. ASTRONOMERS 100 What are the three major types of galaxies identified by Edwin Hubble?

27. Spiral Elliptical Irregular ASTRONOMERS 100

28. ASTRONOMERS 200 What scientist thought Earth was at the center of the universe?

29. Claudius Ptolemy ASTRONOMERS 200

30. ASTRONOMERS 300 What scientist thought the sun was at the center of the universe?

31. Nicolaus Copernicus ASTRONOMERS 300

32. DAILY DOUBLE 800 POINTS

33. ASTRONOMERS DAILY DOUBLE What contribution did Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler bring to astronomy?

34. Brahe: Kept super accurate data of objects moving in the sky Kepler: Took Brahe’s data and used it to create an accurate description of the solar system ASTRONOMERS DAILY DOUBLE

35. Who created the first telescope that is able to take pictures of galaxies? ASTRONOMERS 500

36. Edwin Hubble ASTRONOMERS 500

37. Why don’t solar and lunar eclipses happen every month? SATELLITES 100

38. The moon’s orbit is tilted

39. What causes the phases of the moon? SATELLITES 200

40. The positions of the moon, Earth, and the sun

41. Where would you find a Meteor? Meteoroid? Meteorite? SATELLITES 300

42. Meteor: Mesosphere Meteoroid: Orbiting Earth Meteorite: On Earth’s surface

43. SATELLITES 400 Why do planets or moons with atmospheres have fewer impacts?

44. The air slows and burns up the objects SATELLITES 400

45. Why does the amount of moons for each of the planets change so often? SATELLITES 500

46. Technology allows us to see more!

47. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way? HODGE-PODGE 100

48. Spiral

49. How do the inner planets differ from the outer planets in terms of distance? HODGE-PODGE 200

50. They are closer together HODGE-PODGE 200

51. HODGE-PODGE 300 What does AU mean? How many miles does it represent?

52. HODGE-PODGE 300 Astronomical Unit 93,000,000 miles

53. Name all of the planets that have moons HODGE-PODGE 400

54. All but Mercury and Venus

55. HODGE-PODGE 500 Name all of the planets in order from shortest year to longest year

56. HODGE-PODGE 500 Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

57. The Final Jeopardy Category is: Something that might be on your test tomorrow! Please record your wager UP TO 1000 points

58. What is happening in the diagram?

59. Solar eclipse

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