Grade 9 Science - Space Jeopardy

The Planets The Sun Comets and Other Things

Life of a Star Exploring Space

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The 3rd Planet from Sun

What is the Earth?

It is the largest planet

What is Jupiter?

It is no longer a planet

What is Pluto?

Eight

What is the number of planets in our Solar System?

It is often called the Red Planet

What is Mars?

Dark, cooler regions of the photosphere that produce violent magnetic storms.

What are Sun Spots?

The hot outer part of the Sun where temperatures reach

1,000,000OC.

What is the Corona?

The type of nuclear reaction where two HYDROGEN

NUCLEI combine to form a helium nucleus.

What is Nuclear Fusion?

The name for the distance from the Earth to the Sun

(approximately 149,597,890 km).

What isone Astronomical Unit?

365.25

What is the number of days it takes the Earth to orbit the

Sun once?

Millions of rocks found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter

What are Asteroids?

Dirty snowballs of ice and dust.

What are Comets?

The extinction of dinosaurs may have been caused when

one of these hit the Earth.

What is a Meteorite?

What a meteor is called when it

strikes the Earth.

What is a Meteorite?

Any small, solid extraterrestrial bodies that

enters the Earth's atmosphere.

What is a Meteor?

A star is “born” here.

What is a Nebula?

15,000,000OC

What is the temperature at the core at which a star “turns on”?

The remnants of a Supernova explosion in which the protons and electrons

combine to form neutrons.

What is a Neutron Star?

It becomes this when the core is “swallowed” by its own

gravity

What is a Black Hole?

This type of star is big and cold.

What is a Red Giant?

The type of eclipse when the Moon is between the Sun and

the Earth.

What is a Solar Eclipse?

The closest star to our Sun

What is Proxima Centauri?

This star is also called Polaris.

What is the North Star?

These form when the charges particles moving on the Solar Wind meet the magnetic field

surrounding the Earth.

What are the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis?

9.4605284 × 1015 metersor the distance light travels in one year.

What is a Light Year?