Transcript Jeopardy

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General
Space
The Moon
The Earth
Bodies in
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What is gravity?
The force of attraction between
two objects.
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What is an umbra?
The completely dark inner area
of the shadow of the Moon
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What is the Aurora Borealis?
The Northern Lights.
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What is a star?
A burning ball of gas and dust.
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What is inertia?
A moving object will not change its speed
And direction unless
acted on by another force.
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What is a perigee?
A point in its orbit where the
moon is closest to Earth.
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What is the magnetosphere?
The magnetic field
around the Earth.
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What is a comet?
A giant snowball in space.
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What is the Big Bang Theory?
The universe began to expand with the
explosion of concentrated
matter and energy, and has been
expanding ever since.
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What are rilles?
Long valleys on the surface
of the moon that show that
the moon might once have had
active volcanoes.
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What is the vernal equinox?
The beginning of spring;
there is equal day and night.
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What is an asteroid?
Flying, irregularly shaped
mountains made of rock
and metal.
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What is an elliptical orbit?
An oval shaped revolution
around a planet or sun.
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What is a neap tide?
When the moon and the sun
are at right angles to the Earth.
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What is 23 ½ degrees?
The angle of the Earth’s axis.
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What is a nebula?
A massive cloud of dust and gas
between the stars.
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What is a Moon?
Natural satellites that orbit planets.
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What is the significance of 14.75 days?
The number of days it takes
the moon to pass from the full
moon phase to the new moon
phase.
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What is the cause of the seasons?
This is caused by the
tilt of the axis and the
revolution of the Earth.
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What is a meteor?
A streak of light produced by
a meteoroid as it burns up in
Earth’s atmosphere.
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