Planets
What is the third planet from the Sun?
Earth
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
An asteroid belt
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, gas
What are the colors of the rainbow?
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Complete the line:
What Galileo discovered, we call gravity today
All objects fall the ...
same distance and time, no matter what they weigh
What planets are made of gas?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What is a constellation?
It is a group of stars in a part of the sky that make up an image.
What are the three particles that make up an atom?
Electrons, Protons and Neutrons
How does sound travel?
In waves
Complete the stanza from the poem, "Sound":
Sound waves begin
When an object vibrates
The object's ...
Sound and shape,
Determine the rate
What are Saturn's rings made of?
Ice, dust, and rocks
What is a lightyear?
The distance light can travel in a year
(Light moves VERY fast, so it is a very long way!)
What does the pH scale measure?
How acidic or basic something is
All things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward one another
(The pull that objects have toward each other)
Complete Newton's Third Law of Motion:
For every reaction, there is...
an equal but opposite reaction
What makes Mars red?
The iron in its soil
What causes the Sun to create heat and light?
Nuclear fusion
(Or hydrogen atoms turning into helium)
What two things can change the state of matter of something?
Bonus (100 points for each correct): name the different points at which states of matter occur
Heat or pressure
Bonus: melting point, boiling point, freezing point, condensation point
Why does a red t-shirt look red to us?
Because the t-shirt is absorbing all other colors in light except for red. It is reflecting red.
Complete Newton's First Law of Motion:
1. An object will not move, unless a force like a push or pull moves it...
Once it's moving an object will not stop moving in a straight line unless it's forced to change.
What is the Runaway Greenhouse Effect and which planet does it effect?
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect is what happens on Venus when heat from the Sun enters the planet, but cannot escape because of its thick clouds and atmosphere. This makes Venus VERY hot.
Where is a star born?
In a nebula
(Also would have accepted: in a cloud of gas and dust)
Who created the Periodic Table?
Dimitry Mendeleev
What do you trade in using an inclined plane?
You trade distance for force (You go farther, but it takes you less force)
Complete the poem, "The Solar System"
The Solar System
Our solar system is a celestial collection;
All orbiting the sun in a circular perfection...
Eight planets move around a central ball of burning gas;
Two bands of rock and millions of stars complete the space mass.