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Grade 9 Science - Space Jeopardy
The Planets The Sun Comets and Other Things
Life of a Star Exploring Space
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The 3rd Planet from Sun
What is the Earth?
It is the largest planet
What is Jupiter?
It is no longer a planet
What is Pluto?
Eight
What is the number of planets in our Solar System?
It is often called the Red Planet
What is Mars?
Dark, cooler regions of the photosphere that produce violent magnetic storms.
What are Sun Spots?
The hot outer part of the Sun where temperatures reach
1,000,000OC.
What is the Corona?
The type of nuclear reaction where two HYDROGEN
NUCLEI combine to form a helium nucleus.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
The name for the distance from the Earth to the Sun
(approximately 149,597,890 km).
What isone Astronomical Unit?
365.25
What is the number of days it takes the Earth to orbit the
Sun once?
Millions of rocks found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter
What are Asteroids?
Dirty snowballs of ice and dust.
What are Comets?
The extinction of dinosaurs may have been caused when
one of these hit the Earth.
What is a Meteorite?
What a meteor is called when it
strikes the Earth.
What is a Meteorite?
Any small, solid extraterrestrial bodies that
enters the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a Meteor?
A star is “born” here.
What is a Nebula?
15,000,000OC
What is the temperature at the core at which a star “turns on”?
The remnants of a Supernova explosion in which the protons and electrons
combine to form neutrons.
What is a Neutron Star?
It becomes this when the core is “swallowed” by its own
gravity
What is a Black Hole?
This type of star is big and cold.
What is a Red Giant?
The type of eclipse when the Moon is between the Sun and
the Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
The closest star to our Sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
This star is also called Polaris.
What is the North Star?
These form when the charges particles moving on the Solar Wind meet the magnetic field
surrounding the Earth.
What are the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis?
9.4605284 × 1015 metersor the distance light travels in one year.
What is a Light Year?