Transcript Astronomy jeopardy

ASTRONOMY JEOPARDY
Our Solar
System
Properties of
Stars
Galaxies
Life of a Star
Star Dust
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Our Solar System- 100 Points
Name the 4 inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and
Mars?
Our Solar System - 200 Points
Describe why they are called the
terrestrial planets.
What is they are small, dense, rocky
surfaces? Or
What is they all have a crust, mantel
and iron core?
Our Solar System - 300 Points
Name the 4 outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
and Neptune?
Our Solar System - 400 Points
Describe the composition of the gas
giants.
What is primarily hydrogen and
helium?
Our Solar System - 500 Points
Describe the composition of a comet.
What is dirt and ice?
Properties of Stars- 100 Points
Stellar distances are measured in …
What are light years?
Properties of Stars - 200 Points
The HertzsprungRussell Diagram
gives surface
temperature, color,
and…
What is absolute brightness?
Properties of Stars - 300 Points
As the Earth moves the same star
can be observed and the distance
measured in comparison to distant
stars. This is called…
What is the parallax?
Properties of Stars - 400 Points
List these stars
in order from
coolest to
hottest.
What is A, B, D, C?
Properties of Stars - 500 Points
• Which is the
brighter star
Betelgeuse or a
white dwarf…
What is Betelgeuse?
Galaxies - 100 Points
The name of our galaxy and its
shape…
What is the Milky Way and spiral?
Galaxies - 200 Points
Galaxies are made of…
(name 3 things)
What is gas, dust, stars, planets,
moons, rocks?
Galaxies - 300 Points
Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiral
galaxy. Name 2 other types of
galaxies.
What is barred-spiral, elliptical,
irregular?
Galaxies - 400 Points
What is Hubble’s Law?
What is the galaxies farthest away
are moving the fastest?
Galaxies - 500 Points
One of two reasons we know the
universe is expanding….
What is Hubble’s Law or Red Shift?
Life of a Star - 100 Points
When clouds of dust start out cold and
gravity starts to compress them this
nursery for a star is called a …
(Hint: no birth yet)
What is a Nebula?
Life of a Star - 200 Points
When there is equilibrium between the
stellar fusion pushing out and the gravity
pulling in the star is called…
(Hint: our sun is this type of star)
What is a main sequence?
DAILY DOUBLE – Life of a Star
The core of this star is very hot and
the helium starts to fuse into carbon
as the star swells larger.
What is a Red Giant?
Life of a Star - 400 Points
Sirius B is an example of this type of
“retired” (dying) star which is very
dense and the gravity isn’t working
anymore.
What is a White Dwarf?
Life of a Star - 500 Points
When a massive star dies, it expands to 100
million times its size and explodes. This is
called…
What is a Supernova?
Star Dust - 100 Points
Our sun is this type of star…
What is a main sequence star?
Star Dust - 400 Points
Galaxies are
held together
by…
What is gravity?
Star Dust - 200 Points
The energy from a protostar is produced
when ___________ is converted to
_________
What hydrogen and helium?
Star Dust - 300 Points
The name of the giant telescope that has
taken many wonderful photographs of
the universe
What is Hubble?
Star Dust - 500 Points
When massively large stars die with a great
explosion and such great a force of gravity
that anything falling into it, including e-m
waves becomes trapped and light cannot
escape..
What is a Black Hole?
FINAL JEOPARDY!
The process of hydrogen protons
converting to helium with energy
produced is called
What is nuclear or stellar fusion?