Velocity, Speed and Acc.
Stars
Life/Death of Stars
The Scientific Method
DOUBLE ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY!
100
The distance an object travels divided by the time it takes to travel that distance.
What is speed?
100
The center of our solar system
What is the sun?
100
A large ball of gas consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium that radiates energy.
What is a star?
100
A tentative, educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The distance that light travels in a year
What is a light year?
200
The planet that is closest to the sun.
What is mercury?
200
Most stars are classified as this.
What is a main sequence star?
200
Stars that have low energy emission, but a very high temperature. They are small and form near the end of a stars life.
What are white dwarfs?
200
This is considered the language of science.
What is mathematics?
200
This is a small, orbiting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases.
What is a comet?
300
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What are the gas giants?
300
A nuclear reaction that takes place at the core of a star.
What is nuclear fusion?
300
This hypothesis tells us that stars formed from a cloud of dust and gas.
What is the nebular hypothesis?
300
Something that must be done to determine if your hypothesis is correct.
What are performing experiments and tests?
300
A small piece of space debris that reaches the surface of the earth.
What is a meteorite?
400
They have an elliptical orbit, their speed varies, and farther planets orbit slower
What are the three laws of planetary motion.
400
The energy a star emits.
What is luminosity.
400
This is formed when a very large star dies. It has a gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape, not even light.
What is a black hole?
400
A set of ideas that have met many of experimental tests and are widely accepted by scientists.
What is a Theory?
400
This Law tells us that distance to other galaxies can be measured by calculating the red shift of the light we receive from them.
What is Hubble's Law
500
This planet has more moons that any other planet is our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
500
The part of the sun that emits the light we can see.
What is the photosphere?
500
A beam of electromagnetic radiation that can be observed when pointing towards earth.
What is a pulsar?
500
Manipulating some aspect of nature and observing the results.
What is an experiment?
500
The idea that everything revolves around the earth.
What is Geocentrism?
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