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Astronomy Jeopardy

Planets

Question: Where is the Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt, and Oort Cloud?
Answer: Asteroid Belt: Between Mars and Jupiter
Kuiper Belt: Beyond Neptune, within the Oort cloud
Oort Cloud: Outermost part, contains everything within our solar system.


Question: Why does Mercury have such extreme temperatures while Venus is constantly hot?
Answer: Mercury has no atmosphere, Venus has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide--greenhouse effect

Question: The Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbits the Sun.  Orbital motion allows this to happen.  What two forces act against each other causing orbital motion?
Answer: Gravity and Inertia

Question: What do all inner planets have in common and what do all outer planets have in common?
Answer: Inner Planets: Dense, rocky surfaces, smaller in size
Outer Planets: Gaseous (low density), Large in size (large diameter)


Question: What are the Goldilocks Conditions?
Answer: The natural conditions needed for human life to survive on a planet:

1. Liquid water
2. Appropriate temperature range (distance to a star)
3. Favorable atmosphere


Moon/Tides

Question: What is the formation of the Earth, Sun, and Moon during a spring tide and what phases of the moon could a spring tide occur during?
Answer: Sun--> Moon --> Earth    OR    Sun--> Earth --> Moon  (in a straight line!)

This could occur during a full or new moon


Question: What two force's pulling on the oceans that cause tides?  Which one is stronger and why?
Answer: The moon's gravity and the sun's gravity.  The moon's gravity is stronger because it is much closer to the Earth.

Question: What phase of the moon occurs when the moon is more than half illuminated and it is growing towards becoming a full moon?
Answer: A waxing gibbous

Question: Draw a waning crescent 
Answer:

Question: Describe what a person at the beach may experience during a spring verses a neap tide
Answer: Spring tide: Extreme differences between high and low tides

Neap tide: Barely a noticeable difference between high and low tides


Seasons

Question: What part of the Earth most consistently receives the most direct sunlight? 
Answer: The equator

Question: The north and south poles are the coldest during their respective winters because...
Answer: They receive the least direct sunlight

Question: What is the main cause of the seasons and what are 2 resulting causes of the seasons due to that (seasons lab!).
Answer: The tilt of the Earth's axis causes the seasons because it causes the number of daylight hours to change through out the year and the directness of the sun's rays to change through out the year.

Question:  What seasons are being shown at positions 1-4 in the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer: 1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Fall
4. Winter


Question: Where is sunlight most direct on December 21st?
Answer: Below the equator (southern hemisphere)

Stars

Question: What is the 2 most common element found in stars?
Answer: Hydrogen and Helium

Question: What is nuclear fusion and what are two functions of nuclear fusion?
Answer:
Nuclear fusion is when Hydrogen is converted to Helium

1. Give birth to stars
2. Provide stars with energy


Question:
Which star on this H-R diagram has the greatest absolute brightness? (Luminosity)


Answer: Deneb

Question: What factor determines how long a star lives for/it's life cycle?
Answer: It's mass

Question: What is the life cycle of a high-mass star?
Answer: Nebula--> Protostar--> Main Sequence Star (high mass) --> Red Supergiant --> Supernova--> Black Hole OR Neutron Star

Random

Question: What is the shape of the Milky Way galaxy?
Answer: Barred Spiral

Question: What do planets and dwarf planets have in common? What is different about them?
Answer: Both planets and dwarf planets are round (spherical), orbit the sun, and are not satellites.

However, dwarf planets cannot clear their "neighborhood" of other objects.


Question: What is the difference between a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?
Answer: Meteoroid: Found out in space
Meteor: Burning up in Earth's Atmosphere
Meteorite: Found in Earth's crust


Question: What is a comet made up of?
Answer: Ice, Rock, Dust

Question: What are two pieces of evidence that support the Big Bang Theory?--This is a tough one! (This won't be on the test)
Answer: 1. Matter is still moving apart
2. Leftover energy