Comets, Meteors, Asteroids, and The Sun

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1 Comets, Meteors, Asteroids, and The Sun Template created by Ann Carnevale, Plainville Community Schools, Plainville, CT

2 Comets Meteors Asteroids The Sun $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 Comets Meteors Asteroid Sun Comets Meteors Asteroid Sun Comets Meteors Asteroid Sun Comets Meteors Asteroid Sun Comets Meteors $500 $500 $500 $500 Asteroid Sun Final Jeopardy

3 Category One, $100 Question Comets are often called this because of their composition. Answer

4 Category One, $100 Answer What is a dirty snowball (ice)? Return to Game Board

5 Category One, $200 Question The nucleus is made of Answer

6 Category One, $200 Answer What is ice and dust? Return to Game Board

7 Category One, $300 Question The direction that the tail of comet points is this direction because... Answer

8 Category One, $300 Answer What is away from the sun due to solar winds? Return to Game Board

9 Category One, $400 Question The three parts a comet Answer

10 Category One, $400 Answer What are the coma, tail and nucleus? Return to Game Board

11 Category Two, $100 Question The terms meteoroid, meteor and meteorite each refer to a different stage in an object's descent. What do we call it as it streaks through a planet's atmosphere? Answer

12 Category Two, $100 Answer What is a meteor? Return to Game Board

13 Category Two, $200 Question What we call a meteor after it crashes into a planet Answer

14 Category Two, $200 Answer What is a meteorite? Return to Game Board

15 Category Two, $300 Question A meteor that has burned up in the atmosphere Answer

16 Category Two, $300 Answer What is a meteoroid? Return to Game Board

17 Category Two, $400 Question Meteors can be a big deal, but just how many meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere on a given day Answer

18 Category Two, $400 Answer What is tons? Return to Game Board

19 Category Three, $100 Question The location of most asteroids in our solar system. Answer

20 Category Three, $100 Answer What is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter? Return to Game Board

21 Category Three, $200 Question The composition of an asteroids Answer

22 Category Three, $200 Answer What is rock and metal? Return to Game Board

23 Category Three, $300 Question The different between meteors and asteroids. Answer

24 Category Three, $300 Answer What is size? Return to Game Board

25 Category Three, $400 Question This is a dwarf planet found in the asteroid belt. Answer

26 Category Three, $400 Answer What is Ceres? Return to Game Board

27 Category Four, $100 Question The two most abundant solar elements Answer

28 Category Four, $100 Answer What is hydrogen and helium? Return to Game Board

29 Category Four, $200 Question This is visible during a TOTAL solar eclipse Answer

30 Category Four, $200 Answer What the corona? Return to Game Board

31 Category Four, $300 Question The size of the sun compared to the Earth Answer

32 Category Four, $300 Answer What is 109 Earth radii? Return to Game Board

33 Category Four, $400 Question The two parts of the solar atmosphere Answer

34 Category Four, $400 Answer What are the photosphere and the chromosphere (corona)? Return to Game Board

35 Category Five, $100 Question The growth of a massive object by gradationally attracting more matter Answer

36 Category Five, $100 Answer What is accretion? Return to Game Board

37 Category Five, $200 Question There was little hydrogen and helium in the inner solar nebula because of this. Answer

38 Category Five, $200 Answer What is the temperature was too high for them to condense? Return to Game Board

39 Category Five, $300 Question These collided to create planets. Answer

40 Category Five, $300 Answer What are planetesimals? Return to Game Board

41 Category Five, $400 Question In contrast to the formation of the terrestrial planets, Jupiter may have: Answer

42 Category Five, $400 Answer What is the planet condensed gravitationally rather than by accretion? Return to Game Board

43 Category One, $500 Question Some scientists think that water and this organic material carried by comets may have seeded life on Earth. Answer

44 Category One, $500 Answer What are amino acids? Return to Game Board

45 Category Two, $500 Question The composition of a meteor Answer

46 Category Two, $500 Answer What is rock? -iron, stony, stony-iron Return to Game Board

47 Category Three, $500 Question In the asteroid belt, some areas are almost free of asteroids. These are known as, Answer

48 Category Three, $500 Answer What are Kirkwood Gaps? Return to Game Board

49 Category Four, $500 Question This is a stream of charges particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun and they are responsible for comets Answer

50 Category Four, $500 Answer What are solar winds? Return to Game Board

51 Category Five, $500 Question Peak periods of sunspot activity impact Earth this way. Answer

52 Category Five, $500 Answer They can wreak havoc with our communications systems. It can interfere with the operation of satellites by introducing background static. Return to Game

53 Go to question

54 Final Jeopardy! Go to question

55 Final Jeopardy This holds the sun together. Answer

56 Final Jeopardy Gravity (immense mass) cause Sun to want to collapse on itself Pressure from rapid motion (hot gas) of atoms balances this

Vagabonds of the Solar System

Vagabonds of the Solar System Guiding Questions 1. How and why were the asteroids first discovered? 2. Why didn t the asteroids coalesce to form a single planet? 3. What do asteroids look like? 4. How