Planets and criteria
Vocab and definitions
Plans for the future
Challenges
Miscellaneous
100

Term for a planet being perfectly spaced from its star

What is the Goldilocks Zone?
100

(of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.

What is colonizing?

100

Current NASA program in the works

What is the Artemis missions?

100
Four reasons that humans need space colonization

What are to ensure future human survival, resources, overpopulation, and resarch opportunities?

100

The red planet

What is Mars?

200

Protects from radiation

What is a magnetic field?

200

the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.

What is atmosphere?

200

#1 goal for the Artemis missions

What is landing people on the moon again?

200

Why low gravity is harmful to the human body

What is bone and muscle degrading?

200

Theory for the origin of the universe

What is the Big Bang Theory?

300

Fourth best body for colonization

What is Titan?

300

(especially in science fiction) transform (a planet) so as to resemble the earth, especially so that it can support human life.

What is terraform?
300

About how long scientists think it will take to land people on Mars

What is one decade?

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Biggest hurdle in reaching and colonizing other celestial bodies

What is travel and propulsion systems?

300
Name of the first artificial satellite

What is Sputnik 1?

400

Helps with soil fertilization and minerals

What is geologic activity?

400

The emotional effects of being isolated in space

What is Physiological Isolation?

400

Callisto is good for colonization because...

What is it will provide an opportunity to explore the rest of the distant solar system?

400

How Venus could be colonized

What is Terraforming?

400

The closest 3-star system to us

What is Alpha Centauri?

500

Celestial body with frozen water coating the surface

What is the moon?

500

Using resources available in a space environment (like water, soil, etc.).

What is In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)?

500
Approximate number of nations collaborating on the Artemis program

What is 30+?

500
How long it would take a transmission traveling at the speed of light to reach Earth from the closest solar system to ours

What is 4.4 years?

500

Three types of galaxies

What is spiral, elliptical, irregular?