Vocabulary Jeopardy!

Cycle of Scientific Enterprise

100

This is a statement that is as true as far as we know.

What is a fact?

200

This is a prediction of the result of an observation.

What is a hypothesis?

300

This is a mental model that accounts for a large body of facts.

What is a theory?

400

This is a method of testing a hypothesis without doing an experiment.

What is observation?

500

This process takes place when the result of an experiment or observation does not match the hypothesis or theory.

What is review?

Habitability

100

This habitability factor is primarily determined by how far away a planet is from its star.

What is temperature?

200

This habitability factor refers to what a planet is made of.

What are nutrients? or What is composition?

300

This habitability factor requires a temperature between 0^oC and 100^oC.

What is liquid water?

400

This habitability factor requires a planet to be positioned in such a way that catastrophes are unlikely or infrequent.

What is untroubled?

500

This characteristic of the Earth allows it to retain an adequate atmosphere to support life.

What is sufficient mass?

Seasons

100

This term describes the season in the Northern hemisphere when the Earth's axis points away from the Sun.

What is winter?

200

This is the angle of the Earth's axis compared with the ecliptic plane

What is 23.5^o

300

This term describes the two days each year when the Sun is directly over the equator.

What is an equinox?

400

This is the latitude south of which the sun does not rise on the Northern hemisphere's summer solstice

What is the antarctic circle?

500

This latitude receives the most direct sunlight when the Northern hemisphere is experiencing winter solstice.

What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

Moon and Eclipses

100

This term describes when the Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon

What is a lunar eclipse?

200

All planets orbit the sun in this plane

What is the ecliptic?

300

This term describes a moon that appears more than half illuminated from the Earth

What is gibbous?

400

This process happens to the Moon between the first quarter and the full Moon

What is waxing?

500

This term describes the part of a shadow where only part of the light source is blocked by the object

What is the penumbra?

Earth Systems

100

This term describes someone who studies the atmosphere

What is a meteorologist?

200

This Earth system includes all living things.

What is the biosphere?

300

This Earth system is studied by oceanographers

What is the hydrosphere?

400

This term describes someone who studies the lithosphere.

What is a geologist?

500

This Earth system consists of molten and solid rocks.

What is the lithosphere