Solar System

Solar System - Transcript

JEOPARDY
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SOLAR SYSTEM

JEOPARDY
SUN
PLANETS

STARS

MOONS

CELESTIAL BODIES

EXPLORATIION

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Daily Double
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The name of the star in our solar system

The Sun

The center of the sun where energy is produced

Core

The sun s outer atmosphere

Corona

The visible surface of the sun

Photosphere

The two layers of the sun that are visible during an solar eclipse

Chromosphere and Corona

The names of the four inner planets

Mercury Venus Earth and Mars

Name the four gas giants

Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune

The clockwise rotation of a planet

Retrograde Rotation

A giant storm on Jupiter

The Great Red Spot

The tilted planet

Uranus

A group of stars

Constellation

Death of a large star by explosion

Supernova

Where gravity is so strong that light can not escape

Black Hole

A star that runs out of hydrogen in its core

Red Giant

Actual brightness of a star

Absolute Magnitude

The name of Earth s moon

Luna

Saturn s largest moon

Titan

The two names of Mars moons

Phobos and Deimos

Name the two planets that don t have moons

Mercury and Venus

The person who discovered Jupiter s four largest moons

Galileo

A dirty snowball

Comet

The region between the inner planets and outer planets

Asteroid Belt

A streak of light caused by a meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere

Meteor

A region where comets exist outside the orbit of Neptune

Kuiper Belt

The area that surrounds our solar system where comets are found

OORT CLOUD

The first man to set foot on the moon

Neil Armstrong

The first artificial satellite sent into space

Sputnik 1

The planet that has been explored by Viking 1 2 and Pathfinder

Mars

The satellite that studied Saturn s rings

Cassini

An orbiting telescope that photographed several celestial bodies

Hubble Space Telescope