Jeopardy The Solar System

Chapter 2
The Sun The Inner Planets
The Outer Planets
Comets, Asteroids and Meteors

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The Sun for 100

How the suns energy is produced.

What is nuclear fusion?

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The Sun for 200

Electrically charged particles stream out from the corona.

What are solar winds?

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The Sun for 300

Cool, dark areas of the sun.

What are sunspots?

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The Sun for 400

Reddish loops of gas that connect sunspots.
What are prominences?
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The Sun for 500

When I can see the corona.

What is during a total eclipse?

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The Inner Planets for 100

We are the four inner planets which are small and have rocky surfaces.

What are the terrestrial planets?

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The Inner Planets for 200

My day is longer than my year.

What is Venus?

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The Inner Planets for 300

My axis is tilted and I have seasons just like Earth.

What is Mars?
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The Inner Planets for 400

I have the greatest temperature range.
What is Mercury?

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The Inner Planets for 500

This effect causes the earth to get hotter and hotter.

What is the greenhouse effect?

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The Outer Planets for 100

We are the four outer planets, some might say we stink.

What are the gas giants?

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The Outer Planets for 200

I may have a moon with life, they also call me stormy.

What is Jupiter?

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The Outer Planets for 300

I dont belong here, I should belong with the inner four.
What is Pluto?

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The Outer Planets for 400

They knew I was there before they saw me.
What is Neptune?
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The Outer Planets for 500

Im known for my ice and rocks in orbit around me.

What is Saturn
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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 100

Some call me a dirty snowball.

What is a comet?

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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 200 If I hit the Earth I become one.
What is a meteorite?

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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 300 I swing by about every 76 years.
What is Halleys Comet?
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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 400

Im just too small to be a planet.

What is an asteroid?
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Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors for 500

I am a mess between Mars and Jupiter.

What is the asteroid belt?

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Mother Earth as the center all.

What is a geocentric system?
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These allow life to survive on Earth.

What are the Goldilocks Conditions
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When the fireball in the sky is in the center.
What is the heliocentric model.

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I discovered the circles were ellipses.

Who was Johannes Kepler
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My sunspots cycle around me every this many years .
What is every 1011 years
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