Grade 9 Science - Space Jeopardy

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