Big Bang
Stars
Planets
Moon/Tides/Eclipses
Seasons
100
Number of years since the Big Bang occurred
What is 13.7 Billion years ago?
100
The diagram that categorizes stars.
What is Hertzprung/Russell (HR) diagram?
100
The third planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
100
Name the moon phase:
What is waxing crescent?
100
Three words that are combined to create the term insolation.
What is Incoming Solar Radiation?
200
This was created by the Big Bang.
What is the Universe?
200
The process that provides ENERGY in a star
What is Nuclear Fusion?
200
These planets are rocky.
What are terrestrial planets?
200
The direction the moon moves in it's orbit around the Earth.
What is counterclockwise?
200
Earth receives the greatest amount of insolation throughout the year between these two latitudes.
What is 23.5 degrees North (Tropic of Cancer) and 23.5 degrees South (Tropic of Capricorn)?
300
This proves that the Universe is expanding.
What is Red Shift?
300
The color of a star is determined by its...
What is temperature?
300
These planets are gaseous.
What are Jovian planets?
300
The reason the moon has more of an effect on tides than the Sun.
What is "because it's closer"?
300
The cause of seasons on Earth.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the Sun.
400
If light from a distant star was moving towards us, it's color would shift to this end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is the blue end?
400
This characteristic determines the life cycle of a star.
What is mass?
400
This planet has the fastest rate of rotation.
What is Jupiter?
400
This high tide occurred at this location at 12:15PM. The next high tide will occur at approximately....
What is 12:45AM? (Will accept 12:30 - 12:45AM)
400
This is the result of a high angle of insolation.
What is high temperature?
500
This is the evidence found in the atmosphere by scientists in the 1960s that the Big Bang occurred.
What is Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation?
500
This star has a surface temperature of 10,000K and a luminosity 100,000 times greater than the Sun.
What is Rigel?
500
This planet would float in water.
What is Saturn?
500
Happens when the moon moves into Earth's earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
500
The number of hours of daylight during an equinox.
What is 12 hours?