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100

The sun is at the center of our ____________________.

A 100

What is solar system?

A 100

These cause auroras near Earth’s poles.

A 200

What are solar flares from the Sun?

A 200

The Sun is made of hot gases called _______________.

A 300

What is plasma?

A 300

The Sun always seems to rise in the east because the Earth spins from ______________.

A 400

What is west to east?

A 400

This is the reason we can only see one side of the Moon

from Earth.

A 500

What is the Moon’s revolution and rotation take the same amount of time?

A 500

This is the phase of the Moon in which the Moon is dark.

B 100

What is the New Moon?

B 100

When the moon changes from gibbous with the left half lit up to just the left half lit up, this is what has happened to

the Moon.

B 200

What is the Moon has waned?

B 200

This is why the Moon appears bright at night.

B 300

What is the Moon reflects light from the Sun?

B 300

This is the phase where the entire right half of the moon

is lit up.

B 400

What is the First Quarter?

B 400

This is word that means ‘gradually becoming smaller’.

B 500

What is waning?

B 500

This is why summer days have more hours of sunlight

than winter days.

C 100

What is the Earth’s tilt affects the hours of sunlight during

seasons?

C 100

This is what the weather is like in the northern half of Earth when the South Pole

tilts away from the Sun.

C 200

What is very warm?

C 200

This is why the summers in the Northern Hemisphere are hot compared with the rest of

the year.

C 300

What is the Sun’s rays strike the Northern Hemisphere

more directly?

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

DAILY DOUBLE

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This is how the motion of Earth relates to the length of

day.

C 400

What is the rotation of Earth accounts for the day and night

on the Earth?

C 400

This is what affects the number of hours of daylight

for different parts of the Earth at different times of the year.

C 500

What is the tilt of the Northern or Southern

Hemisphere toward or away from the Sun?

C 500

This is the season during which the Sun’s rays strike Earth at an angle and spread

out.

D 100

What is winter?

D 100

This is the time and season at which your shadow will be the shortest during the year.

D 200

What is noon during the summer?

D 200

Earth’s orbit is an ___________ and the Earth is

closer to the Sun when the northern half has _________.

D 300

What is an ellipse and winter?

D 300

This is the type of solar eclipse you would experience

if you were standing in the penumbra.

D 400

What is a partial solar eclipse?

D 400

This is the reason Earth has seasons.

D 500

What is the tilt of the Earth’s axis causes the seasons?

D 500

This is the position of the Earth, Sun and Moon during

a solar eclipse.

E 100

What is the moon is between the Sun and the Earth?

E 100

This is what happens during a solar eclipse.

E 200

What is the moon crosses between the Sun and Earth

and blocks the light from the Sun?

E 200

This is how the Earth, Sun and moon are arranged during

a lunar eclipse.

E 300

What is the Earth is between the moon and the Sun?

E 300

This is a safe way to observe a solar eclipse.

E 400

What is stand with your back to the sun, use a large sheet of cardboard in front of you to

see the eclipse.

E 400

This is the darker part of the shadow of the eclipse.

E 500

What is the umbra?

E 500

This is the object with the strongest gravitational pull in

our solar system.

F 100

What is the sun?

F 100

This is the benefit to having warmth on Earth and light for

plants to grow.

F 200

What is the plants can grow to make food?

F 200

This is the form of energy that is released by the Sun

that reaches Earth.

F 300

What is heat and light?

F 300

This is the how the Sun’s core makes it possible for

Earth to have life.

F 400

What is the particles in the core react with each other and

release energy?

F 400

This is the name of the two people who first landed on

the moon.

F 500

Who are Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Neil Armstrong?

F 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is:

Gravity

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This is how many times stronger the gravity of the Sun is

compared to the gravity of the Earth.

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What is about 30 times?

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