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Earth in
Space
Motion
and
Gravity
Phases,
Eclipses
And Tides
Earth’s
Moon
Misc.
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Final Jeopardy
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The motion that causes day
and night on Earth
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What is Earth’s rotation?
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The time Earth takes to revolve once.
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What is a year (365.24 days)?
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The longest day of the year.
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What is the summer solstice?
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The days when day and night
are each twelve hours long.
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What are the equinoxes?
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The season we experience when the
sun is at its lowest point in the sky at noon.
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What is winter?
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The factors that affect the force of
gravity between two objects.
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What are the distance between and
the masses of the objects?
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The factors that combine to
keep the Earth in a stable
orbit around the sun.
$200 Question
What are inertia and the
Sun’s gravitational pull?
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The shape of all planet’s orbits.
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What is an ellipse?
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The average distance between the Earth
and the Sun.
$400 Question
What is one astronimical unit (1 AU),
93 million miles or 150 million kilometers?
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The constellations that are sometimes
blocked by the sun at certain points
during the year.
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What are the zodiacs?
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The side of the moon that is
illuminated during the
waxing phases.
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What is the right side?
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The reason we do not have
a solar and lunar eclipse every month.
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What is the tilt of the moon’s orbit?
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The phase of the moon
during the neap tide.
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What is the first or third quarter?
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The amount of time it takes to go from a
new moon phase to a full moon phase.
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What is about two weeks?
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The time of day you will
always see the full moon rise.
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What is 6 p.m.?
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The dark, flat areas on the moon
created by ancient lava flows.
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What are maria?
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The cause of the moon’s
extreme temperatures
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What is a lack of an atmosphere?
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The excepted theory of the
origin of the moon.
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What is the impact theory?
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The reason we always see the same side
of the moon from Earth.
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What is the fact that the moon’s
periods of rotation and revolution
are equal?
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The phase of the moon when we see
half of the illuminated side.
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What is a quarter moon?
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The star at your zenith if
you stand on the North Pole.
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What is Polaris (the North Star)?
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The special day that usually falls
on March 21st.
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What is the spring equinox?
$300 Question
23.5 degrees
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What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?
$400 Question
It states that every object in
the universe attracts every
other object.
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What is Newton’s law of
universal gravitation?
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The tendency for an object to
resist a change in motion.
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What is inertia?
Final Jeopardy
The force that balances with inertia to keep
the planets in orbit around the sun.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is gravity?