Show:
The Orange Ball of Fire
Motha Earth & the T's
Gassy Giants
Comets, Asteroids, and Belts, Oh My!
Facts about Ms. G & Ms. Brooks
100

The sun is made up of different elements. Which element makes up more than 70% of the sun?

1. carbon

2. helium

3. hydrogen

4. oxygen

What is hydrogen?

100

What is the order of the distances of the terrestrial planets from the Sun, from farthest to closest?

  1. Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury 
  2. Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury 
  3. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars 
  4. Venus, Earth, Mars, Mercury 

What is Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury?

100

What is a gas giant?

  1. a large, red star 
  2. a cloud in space made of gas and dust 
  3. a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere 
  4. a rock from space that reaches Earth’s surface without burning up 

What is a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere?

100

Which term defines a small, irregularly shaped body made of rock or organic material that orbits the sun?

  1. asteroid 
  2. comet 
  3. meteor 
  4. meteorite 

What is an asteroid?

100

Where was Ms. G born?

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

200

Which term best describes the movement of matter due to temperature differences in the sun?

  1. conduction 
  2. convection 
  3. nuclear fusion 
  4. radiation

What is convection?

200

Which of the terrestrial planets has the thinnest atmosphere?

  1. Earth 
  2. Mars 
  3. Mercury 
  4. Venus

What is Mars?

200

How does the distance of Earth from the sun compare to the distance of the gas giants from the sun?

  1. Earth is much closer to the sun than the gas giants are. 
  2. Earth is much farther from the sun than the gas giants are. 
  3. Earth and the gas giants are about the same distance from the sun. 
  4. Earth is located within the solar system with the sun, and the gas giants are located outside the solar system. 

What is that Earth is much closer to the sun than the gas giants are?

200

Most Kuiper Belt objects have similar compositions to which of the following objects?

  1. asteroid
  2. comets 
  3. meteorites 
  4. meteoroids 

What are comets?

200

Where and what does Ms. Brooks teach?

GOCA in room 211 and 5th Grade Math and Science

300

The sun generates energy by nuclear fusion. Which of these choices best describes what happens during the process of nuclear fusion in the sun?

  1. Gas atoms lose electrons to become smaller atoms. 
  2. Helium is fused to form carbon. 
  3. Dark spots form on the sun’s surface. 
  4. Atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus. 

What is when an atomic nuclei combine to form a large nucleus?

300

What are three things that Earth provides humans that no other planet has?

1. Energy source

2. Water

3. Atmosphere

4. Geologically active

300

What property of the gas giant plants would account for their having more moons than the number of moons that orbit Earth?

  1. Gas giants rotate more rapidly than Earth, so they eject more material that could form natural satellites
  2.  Gas giants are less dense than Earth, so they contain less material that could form natural satellites. 
  3. Gas giants are more massive than Earth and thus have greater gravitational forces, so they could attract more objects.
  4. Gas giants are farther from the sun than Earth, so there are fewer objects in that part of space to attract into orbits. 

What is gas giants are more massive than Earth and thus have greater gravitational forces, so they could attract more objects?

300

Which objects are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

1. Asteroids

2. comets

3. Kuiper Belt objects

4. Meteorites

What is asteroid?

300

Where did Ms. Brooks and Ms. G meet?

Jacksonville, Florida

400

A satellite took x-ray pictures of a solar flare. How did the solar flare most likelyappear on the x-ray pictures?

  1. as a dark spot 
  2. as a swirl of red flames 
  3. as a flamelike projection 
  4. as an area of bright white light 

What is an area of bright white light?

400

What is something unique about Venus' rotation (turning on its axis) and revolution (its spin around the sun)?

Venus takes longer to rotate on its axis than revolve around the sun.

400

What is a planetary ring?

What is a disk of material that circles a planet and consists of orbiting particles?

400

Whats the relationship between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites?



What is a meteoroid is a rocky object in space, a meteor is a type of meteoroid that burns up in Earth's atmosphere, and a meteorite is a meteoroid that makes it through Earth's atmosphere?

400

Where did Ms. G go to school?

American University in DC

500

What are the three types of solar activity and what happens during each one?

1. Solar flare

2. Sunspots

3. Prominences

500

Name all four terrestrial planets and one thing that is unique about them?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

500

What are the four gas giants and name something unique about each one.

What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?

500

Where is the Kuiper Belt and what is it made up of?

What is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and it is made up of icy objects (comets)?

500

What is Ms. G's biggest pet peeves?

MS. G....MS. G.....MS. G!!!!!!