Transcript Civics – Unit 1 Jeopardy

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