Planets!
Stars
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Natural Objects In Space!
DOUBLE ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY!
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This planet is the "3'rd rock from the sun". It has a large amount of water on its surface and is the only planet that currently has conditions which sustain life as we know it.
What is Earth?
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This star is the MOST similar to our sun in mass, luminosity, and color.

What is Alpha Centauri?

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This word means the brightness or intensity of a star's light.

Luminosity

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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 planet has the slowest period of rotation.

What is Venus?

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?
200

This planet takes 164.8 Earth years (365 days = 1 Earth year) to orbit around the sun once!

What is Neptune?

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This is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300

These are the intermediate stages of a star's life cycle

What are giant and supergiant stars?

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These 4 planets have the highest densities in the solar system.

What are Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus?

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This is the currently accepted age of the universe

13.8 billion years ago

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In this process, the nuclei of atoms fuse together to form a larger nucleus.
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

A star's luminosity is always proportional with this property

What is mass?

400
The color of a star indicates this characteristic of it.

What is the temperature?

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These stars are among the hottest and smallest in the universe.

What is a white dwarf star?

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This is a large rotating cloud of dust and hydrogen gas.
What is a nebula?
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This is the 8th planet from the Sun, and is made of mostly hyrdrogen, helium, and methane gas.
What is Neptune?
500

This explosive event occurs at the end of a high mass star's life, leaving behind the ingredients for new stars and planets

What is a supernova?

500

Of all the planets in the solar system, Saturn has the lowest in this characteristic

What is density?

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This is the term used to describe a star that has stabalized.
What is a main-sequence star?
500

4.5 billion years ago, this occured.

What is the formation of the Solar System?

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