Planets!
The Sun!
Moons!
More Planets!
DOUBLE ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY!
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This planet is the "3rd rock from the sun". It has a large amount of water on its surface and is the only planet that currently has conditions that sustain life as we know it.

What is Earth?

100
These are dark areas on the sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
100
Which planet's moon has phases and controls it's tide waters?
What is Earth?
100
These are large bodies that orbit the sun!
What are planets?
100
This is a non-contact force that acts on objects. If two objects are placed in space, they will be drawn towards each other by this force.
What is gravity?
200
Small and recently re-classified as a dwarf planet, this is the littlest planet found furthest out in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
200
The sun, and all bodies that orbit around it form this.
What is the solar system?
200
This is the name of Pluto's plant which is about half the size of Pluto.
What Charon?
200
Including Pluto, this is the total number of planets in our solar system.
What is 8?
200

This is a HUGE system of gas, dust, and stars. Our solar system is found at one of the far edges of it.

What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
300
This is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300
All objects in the solar system travel around the sun in this kind of orbit that is not circular, but more oval shaped.
What is elliptical orbit?
300
This two syllable, two vowel moon is one of the 4 Galilean moons that orbit Jupiter.
What is Io?
300
This planet has the thickest atmosphere of all of the inner planets due to the carbon dioxide that traps heat in its atmosphere.
What is Venus?
300
In this process, the nuclei of atoms fuse together to form a larger nucleus. This process occurs naturally on the sun and is responsible for the extreme amounts of heat and light generated by our greatest star.
What is nuclear fusion?
400
This is known as the red planet, and has shown evidence that it may have had microscopic life on it long ago.
What is Mars?
400
This is the innermost part of the sun where it's energy is generated.
What is the core?
400
When Earth's moon is in this phase it looks like there is no moon at all.
What is new moon?
400
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are grouped by this name that refers to their size and what they are made of.
What are the gas giants ?
400
These tides occur during Earth's moon's first quarter and third quarter phases. This tide has the least difference between consecutive low and high tides.
What are neap tides ?
500
This is the 8th planet from the Sun, and is made of mostly hyrdrogen, helium, and methane gas.
What is Neptune?
500
This is part of the sun's atmosphere that is only visible during a total solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
500
Earth's moon has dark, flat areas on its surface that Galileo named for the Latin word for "seas".
What is Maria?
500
All outer planets have numerous moons and rings, this one planet however, has the most amazing set of rings.
What is Saturn?
500
This feature of the sun is formed when the loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect releasing large magnetic energy.
What are solar flares ?
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