Day and Night
Miscellaneous
Planets!
Our Place in Space
Stars
Wild Card
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DAILY TRIPLE:
A __________ occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth.
solar eclipse
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What is the name of our galaxy?
The Milky Way
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The Asteroid Belt.
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What is the name for the path that a planet takes around the Sun?
Orbit
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What star is closest to Earth?
The Sun!
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The Hubble
It is a NASA telescope
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Example of a Natural Satellite
A Moon
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One revolution on Earth is how long?
365.25 days
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Between Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, which one has the most moons?
Saturn
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The person that got stuck in space for 311 days.
Double points if you can say what ship he was stuck on.
Triple points if you can say why he was stuck
Quadruple points if you can say how he got back.
Sergei Krikalev on the Mir space station because while he was up there the Soviet Union collapsed and didn't have enough money to get him back down. He got down by Germany funding newly found Russia.
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The Sun
A burning ball of gas
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The year the first American Astronaut went to the moon.
1969
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What do we call spinning of the Earth around the Sun?
Revolution
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Compared to the Earth's solar system, the universe is...
A.) Older and Larger
B.) Older and Smaller
C.) Younger and Larger
D.) Younger and Smaller
A
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What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
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What is the only other planet in our solar system that is believed to be able to sustain life?
Mars
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Name of north star
Polaris
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What planet is this?
Size: Large
Appearance: Blue/Green, with some white clouds
Axial Tilt: 23.5
Direction of rotation: prograde (same direction as sun)
Earth
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DAILY QUADRUPLE:
What phase of the moon is shown here? 
New Moon
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The gravitational pull of the Moon on Earth's oceans results in...
tides
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What planet is this one?
Light blue
Uranus
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How long does a rotation of the Earth around its axis take if measuring by Sidereal Days?
23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.0905 second
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What is the name of this galaxy?
The Milky Way.
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Name the rock planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
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What causes our planet to have four seasons?
Seasons are the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis
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Which planet is covered by clouds of sulphuric acid?
Venus
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Which planet rotates on its axis from east to west
Jupiter, Earth, Venus and Mercury
Venus
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DAILY QUINTUPLE:
The first human in space.
Yuri Gargarin
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DAILY DOUBLE:
Why are some brighter than others?
because they are closer
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What planet is this?
Size: medium
Appearance: completely covered by clouds
Axil tilt: 2.6
Rotation: retrograde (opposite of sun)
Venus