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Planets
What Makes up the Solar System
What is known about Stars?
How do Scientists Study Planets and Stars?
Fun Facts about Ms. Bueter
100
What is the name of the only planet to have living things?
What is EARTH
100
Why is Earth affected by the sun more than any other planet?
What is the sun provides the heat and light necessary for life.
100
The ________ is a star at the center of our Solar System.
What is Sun
100
A tool that scientists use to analyze light by producing bands and dark lines.
What is Spectroscope
100
What is the name of the high school Ms. Bueter graduated from?
What is Leopold
200
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is JUPITER
200
Known as a system of millions of stars, gas, and dust that lie fairly close together in space
What is Galaxy
200
What do scientists use as a unit to measure distances from stars?
What is Light Year
200
The clear glass piece in telescopes that focuses and refracts light rays.
What is Lens
200
What activity/sport did Ms. Bueter participate in while in college?
What is Cheerleading
300
The planet known as a "dwarf" planet.
What is Pluto
300
Name at least three objects other than the planets found in our Solar System.
What are comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteor, stars
300
_________ stars are the coolest of all the stars.
What is Red
300
What makes distant objects look clearer and show detail?
What is Telescope
300
What school did Ms. Bueter attend after high school, but before SEMO?
What is Three Rivers Community College
400
What planet is closest to the Sun?
What is Mercury
400
What was the name of the man who created the first model of the Solar System
Who is Ptolemy
400
How do astronomers group stars? What properties?
What is Brightness, Color, and Size
400
Galileo produced the first telescope in 1609. In 1668 a man by the name of __________________ furthermore designed a reflecting telescope.
Who is Issac Newton
400
Who was Ms. Bueter's fifth grade teacher?
What is Mrs. Jill Bruenderman
500
What are the nine planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
500
The word planet comes from a Greek word meaning??
What is "to wander"
500
*****DOUBLE BONUS***** Name at least two constellations discussed in the text.
What is Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Cassiopeia, and Orion
500
Scientists put powerful telescopes up in space because Earth's _________ contains materials that affect light passing through it.
What is atmosphere.
500
******Double Bonus****** What team were the STL Cardinals playing the day I got hit in the head with a foul ball?
What is Colorado Rockies