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Jeopardy

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• Mrs. Markes

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Earth in Space
Space History
Solar System
The Sun
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What is Earths rotation on its axis?
Causes night and day.

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What is astronomy?
The study of the moon, stars, and other objects
in space.

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What are the photosphere, chromosphere, and the
corona?
The three layers of the suns atmosphere.

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What are the inner planets Mercury, Venus,
Earth, and Mars?
These planets, referred to as terrestrial
planets, are small and have rocky surfaces.

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What is revolution?
The movement of one object around another.

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What is the geocentric model?
In this model of the solar system, the planets
and sun revolved around the Earth.

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What is nuclear fusion?
The suns energy comes from this.

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What is retrograde rotation?
Venus is know for this backward rotation.

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What is because Earths axis is tilted as it
moves around the sun?
Earth has seasons.

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Who was Copernicus?
This scientist developed a Heliocentric model
for the motion of the planets in which
everything revolved around the sun.

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What are hydrogen and helium?
The sun is a glowing ball of these gases.

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What is the greenhouse effect?
This trapping of heat on Venus is due to the
high levels of carbon dioxide in the air.

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What are the summer and winter solstices?
These two days are the longest and the shortest
days of the year.

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Who was Galileo?
This scientists discovery of the four moons of
Jupiter and Venuss phases supported the
heliocentric model.

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What are sunspots?
These vary in cycles every 10 or 11 years.

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What is Mars?
Water, in the form of ice, has been found at the
poles of this planet.

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What are the vernal and autumnal equinoxes?
On these two days the noon sun is directly
overhead at the equator .

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What is an ellipse?
Kepler discovered the shape of the planets
orbits.

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What are prominences?
Reddish loops of gas that link different parts
of sunspot regions.

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What is Olympus Mons?
The largest, volcanic mountain is found on Mars.

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