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JeopardyEarth in Space
Motion and Gravity
Phases, Eclipses And Tides
Earth’s Moon
Misc.
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Final Jeopardy
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The motion that causes day and night on Earth
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What is Earth’s rotation?
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The time Earth takes to revolve once.
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What is a year (365.24 days)?
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The longest day of the year.
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What is the summer solstice?
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The days when day and nightare each twelve hours long.
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What are the equinoxes?
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The season we experience when the sun is at its lowest point in the sky at noon.
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What is winter?
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The factors that affect the force of gravity between two objects.
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What are the distance between and the masses of the objects?
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The factors that combine to keep the Earth in a stable orbit around the sun.
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What are inertia and the Sun’s gravitational pull?
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The shape of all planet’s orbits.
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What is an ellipse?
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The average distance between the Earthand the Sun.
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What is one astronimical unit (1 AU), 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers?
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The constellations that are sometimesblocked by the sun at certain pointsduring the year.
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What are the zodiacs?
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The side of the moon that is illuminated during the waxing phases.
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What is the right side?
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The reason we do not have a solar and lunar eclipse every month.
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What is the tilt of the moon’s orbit?
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The phase of the moon during the neap tide.
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What is the first or third quarter?
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The amount of time it takes to go from a new moon phase to a full moon phase.
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What is about two weeks?
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The time of day you will always see the full moon rise.
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What is 6 p.m.?
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The dark, flat areas on the moon created by ancient lava flows.
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What are maria?
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The cause of the moon’s extreme temperatures
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What is a lack of an atmosphere?
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The excepted theory of the origin of the moon.
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What is the impact theory?
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The reason we always see the same side of the moon from Earth.
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What is the fact that the moon’s periods of rotation and revolutionare equal?
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The phase of the moon when we seehalf of the illuminated side.
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What is a quarter moon?
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The star at your zenith if you stand on the North Pole.
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What is Polaris (the North Star)?
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The special day that usually falls on March 21st.
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What is the spring equinox?
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23.5 degrees
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What is the tilt of Earth’s axis?
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It states that every object in the universe attracts everyother object.
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What is Newton’s law ofuniversal gravitation?
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The tendency for an object to resist a change in motion.
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What is inertia?
Final Jeopardy
The force that balances with inertia to keep the planets in orbit around the sun.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is gravity?
