Jeopardy People Vocabulary Constellations Stars Other… 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

People 100 What country was Ptolemy from? Back Answer: Greece

What country was Ptolemy from?

People 200 He believed in an earth-centered universe. Back Answer: Ptolemy

He believed in an earth-centered universe.

People 300 He discovered gravity. Back Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

He discovered gravity.

People 400 He believed in a sun-centered universe with the planets orbiting the in an ellipse. Back Answer: Kepler

He believed in a sun-centered universe with the planets orbiting the in an ellipse.

People 500 He knew the planets orbited around the sun, but he thought they orbited in perfect circles. Back Answer: Copernicus

He knew the planets orbited around the sun, but he thought they orbited in perfect circles.

Vocabulary 100 The study of the stars, planets, and all other heavenly bodies. Back Answer: astronomy

The study of the stars, planets, and all other heavenly bodies.

Vocabulary 200 The force that resists motion Back Answer: friction

The force that resists motion

Vocabulary 300 Tiny worlds traveling around the sun. Back Answer: Asteroids

Tiny worlds traveling around the sun.

Vocabulary 400 What is the definition of Solar System? Back Answer: The sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit the sun.

What is the definition of Solar System?

Vocabulary 500 What is the definition of a moon? Back Answer: A natural satellite orbiting a planet

What is the definition of a moon?

Stars 100 What is the most important star to humans? Back Answer: The sun

What is the most important star to humans?

Stars 200 What is another name for the North Star? Back Answer: Polaris

What is another name for the North Star?

Stars 300 What determines the color of a star? Back Answer: Its temperature

What determines the color of a star?

Stars 400 Which color is the coolest and which color is the hottest? Back Answer: Coolest = red Hottest = dark blue

Which color is the coolest and which color is the hottest?

Stars 500 What word describes the brightness of a star? Answer: magnitude Back

What word describes the brightness of a star?

Constellations 100 How many constellations are there? Back Answer: 88

How many constellations are there?

Constellations 200 What is another name for the constellation Orion? Back Answer: Hunter

What is another name for the constellation Orion?

Constellations 300 Name 3 constellations seen in the Northern Hemisphere (that are from the study guide). Back Answer: Big Dipper Leo Little Dipper Gemini Andromeda

Name 3 constellations seen in the Northern Hemisphere (that are from the study guide).

Constellations 400 Name the 3 constellations seen in the Southern Hemisphere (from the study guide). Back Answer: Southern Cross The Scorpion The Archer

Name the 3 constellations seen in the Southern Hemisphere (from the study guide).

Constellations 500 What is the definition of a constellation? Back Answer: An imaginary picture outlined by the stars

What is the definition of a constellation?

Other… 100 When doing an experiment, at least how many times should a scientist do it? Back Answer: 3

When doing an experiment, at least how many times should a scientist do it?

Other… 200 What is the name of our galaxy? Back Answer: Milky Way

What is the name of our galaxy?

Other… 300 What are the three types of galaxies? Back Answer: Spiral Elliptical Irregular

What are the three types of galaxies?

Other… 400 What is a revolution? Back Answer: one trip around the sun

What is a revolution?

Other… 500 What three things affect the speed of a falling object? Back Answer: Air Resistance (friction because of air) Surface area Mass

What three things affect the speed of a falling object?

!!!!FINAL JEOPARDY!!!! How fast does light travel? Back Answer: 3,000 km a second Or 186,287 mi per second