Space Jeopardy 1

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Space Jeopardy 1
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Solar System (100pts)
A dirty snowball with a long tail that is pulled
around the sun and then sent back into deep space.
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Solar System (100pts)
What is a comet?
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Solar System (200pts)
A chunk of rock orbiting in a belt between Mars
and Jupiter.
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Solar System (200pts)
What is an asteroid?
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Solar System (300pts)
This is the only planet on which we have found
definite signs of life. (so far)
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Solar System (300pts)
What is Earth?
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Solar System (400pts)
This planet is tipped on its side.
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Solar System (400pts)
What is Uranus?
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Solar System (500pts)
This used to be the ninth and smallest planet but
has now been classified as a dwarf planet.
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Solar System(500pts)
What is Pluto?
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Space Facts (100pts)
Photovoltaics
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Space Facts (100pts)
What is the science name for solar cells?
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Space Facts (200pts)
A constant state of falling.
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Space Facts (200pts)
Why are astronauts weightless in space?
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Space Facts (300pts)
Gravity and inertia.
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Space Facts (300pts)
What are the two forces that keep objects in
orbit?
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Space Facts (400pts)
Dwarf planets.
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Space Facts (400pts)
What is the category for Pluto and other similar
objects?
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Space Facts (500pts)
KC 135 (also know as the vomit comet)
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Space Facts (500pts)
What is nickname for the KC 135?
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Gravity (100pts)
The state of weightlessness experienced by
astronauts while in space.
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Gravity (100pts)
What is Zero Gs?
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Gravity (200pts)
The gravity which we experience every day on
Earth.
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Gravity (200pts)
What is 1 G?
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Gravity (300pts)
1/6 of a G.
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Gravity (300pts)
What is the gravity of the moon?
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Gravity (400pts)
Two Xs the normal Earths gravity?
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Gravity (400pts)
What is 2 Gs?
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Gravity (500pts)
Gravity is not determined by size but by this
instead. (Also the reason a bowling ball would
have more gravity than a basketball.)
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Gravity (500pts)
What is mass?
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Moon Phases (100pts)
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Moon Phases (100pts)
What is a last quarter?
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Moon Phases (200pts)
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Moon Phases (200pts)
What is a waning crescent?
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Moon Phases (300pts)
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Moon Phases (300pts)
What is a waxing crescent?
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Moon Phases (400pts)
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Moon Phases (400pts)
What is a waning gibbous?
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Moon Phases (500pts)
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Moon Phases (500pts)
What is a waxing gibbous?
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Odds Ends (100pts)
The nearest star to the earth.
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Odds Ends (100pts)
What is the sun?
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Odds Ends (200pts)
This planet is best know for its giant red spot.
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Odds Ends (200pts)
What is Jupiter?
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Odds Ends (300pts)
This planet has the largest volcanoes in the
solar system.
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Odds Ends (300pts)
What is the Mars?
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Odds Ends (400pts)
Name the eight planets in order.
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Odds Ends (400pts)
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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Odds Ends (500pts)
An object in motion tends to stay in motion
unless something bothers it.
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Odds Ends (500pts)
What is inertia?
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