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Planets!
The Sun!
Our Solar System!
Objects In Space!
DOUBLE ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY!
100
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?
100
These are dark areas on the sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
100

Which scientist suggested the Sun was the center of the solar system and proposed the heliocentric model?

Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?

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

First scientist to use a telescope?

Who is the Galileo Galilei?

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 is a small, orbiting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases. The solid center of this is its nucleus, and like all objects in the solar system it orbits the sun.
What is a comet?
300

The planet that has 146 moons and the largest named Titan.

What is Saturn?

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 is the object our solar system was formed from. It contains hydrogen, helium, small amounts of other gases, and dust.

What is the collapsing interstellar star?

300
This is a chunk of matter that enters our atmosphere and is heated by friction with the air to the point of burning up as it falls towards the Earth.
What is a meteor?
300
In this process, the nuclei of atoms fuse together to form a larger nucleus.
What is nuclear fusion?
400

The planet with the largest volcano in the solar system, two moons; Phobos and Deimos.

What is Mars?

400
This is the innermost part of the sun where it's energy is generated.
What is the core?
400

Gas giants formed from merging of what object? Hint: it is an object ranging from one km to hundreds of km in diameter.

What is a Planetesimal?

400

Ground-based facility in a remote location with minimal light pollution in order to study space.

What is an observatory?

400

Increasing size moon is called __________.

Decreasing size moon is called __________.

What is a waxing, waning?

500
This is the 8th planet from the Sun, and is made of mostly hyrdrogen, helium, and methane gas.
What is Neptune?
500

What is the sun's outermost layer of sun's interior? Hint: Energy is transferred through a turbulent, boiling motion.

What is the convection zone?

500

What is the shape of our galaxy, the Milky Way?

What is a spiral galaxy?

500

The following are examples of this object: Hubble space telescope, Mars rover, Apollo Lunar Module

What are space probes?

500
This planet takes 163 Earth years (365 days = 1 Earth year) to orbit around the sun once!
What is Neptune?