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Planets
The Sun
Life/Death of Stars
Cosmology
DOUBLE ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY!
100
This planet is the third from the sun.
What is Earth?
100
14 billion years
What is the estimated lifespan of the sun?
100
A large ball of gas consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium that radiates energy.
What is a star?
100
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?
100
The distance that light travels in a year
What is a light year?
200
Small and recently re-classified as a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
200
The sun, and all bodies that orbit around it form this.
What is the solar system?
200
Starts that have low energy emission, but a very high temperature. They are very small in comparison to the sun.
What are white dwarfs?
200
According to this hypothesis our solar system started out as a large cloud of dust and gas that began to collapse and spin, allowing it to expand.
What is the Nebular Hypothesis?
200
This is a small, orbiting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases.
What is a comet?
300
This is the largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
300
The force that holds the sun together
What is gravity?
300
Starts that are in their hydrogen burning phase. The sun classified in this category.
What are main-sequence stars?
300
This Theory states that the universe suddenly began at a specific time in the past and has been expanding ever since.
What is the big bang theory?
300
A small piece of space debris that reaches the surface of the earth.
What is a meteorite?
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
The process at occurs at the center of the star creating energy.
Nuclear Fusion
400
The idea that everything in the universe revolves around us.
What is geocentrism?
400
This is a large rotating cloud of dust and hydrogen gas.
What is a nebula?
500
This is the 8th planet from the Sun, and is made of mostly hyrdrogen, helium, and methane gas.
What is Neptune?
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
Hubble's constant multiplied by the distance from us.
What is galaxy velocity?
500
1.78 billion Miles from the sun
What is Uranus?