Astronomy Jeopardy

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Astronomy Jeopardy
Geo/Helio
Telescopes/ Constellations
Galaxies/ Big Bang
Gravity
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Final Jeopardy
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• Which model explains the motions of the planets
  more accurately
• Geocentric or heliocentric?

• Heliocentric

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• Who was the first scientist to successfully use a
  telescope to observe the night sky?

• Galileo

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• What theory was overturned by the evidence
  gathered by Galileo?

• Geocentric theory

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• Describe the Heliocentric theory.

• Sun is the center of the solar system

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• Describe the Geocentric theory.

• Earth is the center of the universe.

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• A reflecting telescope gathers light with a _____

• Mirror

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• Astronomers often locate telescopes on mountains
  to______________.

• Lesson the interference of the Earths atmosphere.

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• Astronomers use constellations to

• Locate objects in the sky

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• Which stars do we always see during the year?

• Stars on the horizon

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• What so the stars in a constellation have in
  common?

• The same general directions from Earth.

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• Where in the Milky Way galaxy is our solar system
  found?

• In an outer arm.

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• A cluster of a billion stars is a ________.

• Galaxy

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• What does the big bang theory explain?

• That the universe is expanding

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• Why could the big bang theory possibly be
  replaced by another theory about the origin on
  the universe?

• New evidence could show a different theory to be
  more accurate.

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• Do scientists know what caused the small dense
  ball of energy and matter to expand and cool?

• No, scientists do not know.

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• Why is gravity known as the universal force?

• It holds the universe together.

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• If two planets get closer together, what happens
  to the gravitational force they exert on each
  other?

• It increases

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• What causes our solar system to have the shape
  that it does?

• Gravitational force

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• Gravity is stronger when objects are ________

• Close together

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• If two planets get closer together, what happens
  to the gravitational force they exert on each
  other?

• It increases

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• What is a push or a pull?

• Force

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• What is all of space and everything in it?

• The universe

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• What is a natural satellite that revolves around
  a planet?

• A moon

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• The spinning of Earth on its axis

• rotation

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• A meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere
  and hits Earths surface.

• A meterorite

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Final Jeopardy

• The Big Bang theory hypothesizes that the
  universe began how many years ago?

• 14 Billion years ago