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y Motion
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Final Jeopardy
Planetary Motion100
The Earth’s rotational axis is tilted ______ from the vertical.
What is “23.5o”?
Planetary Motion100
Day and night are caused by the ______ of the Earth on its axis.
Planetary Motion200
What is “rotation”?
Planetary Motion200
The type of motion pictured below
Planetary Motion300
What is “precession”?
Planetary Motion300
Planetary Motion400
Name the season North Carolina is in as shown in the diagram below and explain why.
What is “winter because the Earth is tilted away from the sun”?
Planetary Motion400
Does the moon orbit the Earth arounda point that is midway between the Earth and moon or is that point below Earth’s surface? Name the point thatbalances the masses of the Earth andmoon.
Planetary Motion500
What is “the point is about 1700 km below the Earth’s surface and is called the barycenter”?
Planetary Motion500
Sun100
The visible surface of the sun that radiates the light we see.
What is the “photosphere”?
Sun100
Sun feature shown in the diagram below:
Sun200
What is a “prominence”?
Sun200
Name the sun features shown here and the potentially dangerous phenomena associated with them.
Sun300
What are “sunspots and solar flares”?
Sun300
Sun’s Power
•What “fuel” powers the sun? •What process is the fuel used to create energy? •Into what gas is this “fuel” converted?•Where does this occur in the sun?
Sun400
What is
“Hydrogen fuelNuclear fusionCreates heliumOccurs in the sun’s core”?
Sun400
•The diagram below is a(n) ________.•Plants contain what green pigment to trap visible light.•Plants and other producers most strongly absorb ____ light.
Sun500
What is
“Electromagnetic spectrumChlorophyllRed and blue light”?
Sun500
The inner planets are also known as the __________ planets since they are largely composed of metallicminerals.
Inner Planets100
What is “rocky or terrestrial”?
Inner Planets100
Earth’s twin planet
Inner Planets200
What is “Venus”?
Inner Planets200
Planet with the greatest temperature extremes
Inner Planets300
What is “Mercury”?
Inner Planets300
Inner planet with huge volcanoes andcanyons—much larger than those onEarth
Inner Planets400
What is “Mars”?
Inner Planets400
The surface of Venus was mapped by radar because…
Inner Planets500
What is Venus is covered in such thickclouds visible light cannot penetrate theatmosphere.
Inner Planets500
The outer planets are also known as Jovian planets or _____ _______, referring to their size and composition.
Outer Planets100
What are the “gas giants”?
Outer Planets100
The planet that rotates on its side as it orbits the sun
Outer Planets200
What is “Uranus”?
Outer Planets200
Outer Planets300
Windy Planet with Great Dark Spot
What is “Neptune”?
Outer Planets300
This planet would float in water
Outer Planets400
What is “Saturn”?
Outer Planets400
Name two of the four major ice compounds found in the outer planets as atmospheres or rings
Outer Planets500
What are “carbon dioxide, water, ammonia, and methane”?
Outer Planets500
A meteoroid that has made it to the surface of the Earth is called a ____.
Solar System100
What is a “meteorite”?
Solar System100
Solar System200
The birthplace of solar systems seen below, rotating clouds of dust and gas
What is “a nebula or nebulae (plural)”?
Solar System200
Solar System300
The planet that is believed to have a liquid hydrogen surface
Solar System300
What is “Jupiter”?
Solar System400
Name two of the three volcanicallyactive bodies in our solar system.
Solar System400
What are “Earth, Io ( a moon of Jupiter) and Neptune’s moon Triton”?
Identify the comet structure indicatedbelow and give one of the two regions from which most comets originate
Solar System500
What is “the coma and the Kuiper Beltor Oort Cloud”?
Solar System500
Final Jeopardy
An apparent change in the frequency or wavelength of sound or light as it moves toward or away from an observer is known as this…Explain how this phenomenon has been used by scientists to explain the universe is expanding.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is “the Doppler effect and all light studied from stars or galaxies has been red (so moving away)”?