Created by OKTechMasters

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• Created byOKTechMasters Sara Duncan
• Modified by Heidi Manning

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Contestants
Dont Forget...
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Always phrase your answers in the form of a
question!
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Hands on your buzzers, its...
Computer
JEOPARDY!
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History
Jovian Planets
Cratered Worlds
Radiation
The Earth
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History for 100
A complex model of the Universe popular until the
1600s, it contained epicycles and deferents.
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What is the geocentric model?
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History for 200
The first person to use a telescope to view the
sky.
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Who is Galileo?
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History for 300
He created 3 laws describing the motion of
planets around the Sun
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Who is Kepler?
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History for 400
He measured the size of the Earth using shadows
in a well.
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Who is Eratosthenes?
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History for 500
He kept a detailed record of the orbit of Mars in
an attempt to find math useful in modeling orbits.
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Who is Tycho Brahe?
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Jovian Planets for 100
The Jovian Planet with the lowest density.
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What is Saturn?
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Jovian Planets for 200
A term describing the different rotation rates at
different parts of the planet (or the sun).
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What is differential rotation?
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Jovian Planets for 300
The critical distance from a planet, inside of
which a moon can be tidally destroyed.
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What is the Roche limit?
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Jovian Planets for 400
This planet does not have an internal heat source.
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What is Uranus?
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Jovian Planets for 500
The Galileo orbiter explored this planet for
eight years.
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What is Jupiter?
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The Earth for 100
Produced by moving electrical charges.
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What is a magnetic field?
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DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
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The Earth for 200
DAILY DOUBLE
An event used to map the Earths mantle and core
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What is an earthquake?
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The Earth for 300
The primary type of rock that the ocean floors
are composed of.
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What is basalt?
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The Earth for 400
The primary gas responsible for the greenhouse
effect on Earth.
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What is carbon dioxide?
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The Earth for 500
The result of 2 tectonic plates separating.
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What is a rift or fault?
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Cratered Worlds for 100
The large, dark and younger regions on the Moon?
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What are Maria.
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Cratered Worlds for 200
The currently accepted theory of the origin of
the Moon.
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What is the Giant Impact Theory?
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Cratered Worlds for 300
The reason there are more and larger craters on
Mercury and the Moon than other terrestrial
planets.
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What is the lack of an atmosphere (or erosion)?
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Cratered Worlds for 400
The laboratory method used to date the lunar
samples.
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What is radioactive dating?
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Cratered Worlds for 500
The landing site of Apollo 11.
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The Sea of Tranquility
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Radiation for 100
The highest frequency in the electromagnetic
spectrum.
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What are gamma rays.
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Radiation for 200
The color of visible light with the highest
energy.
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What is violet?
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Radiation for 300
One of two forms of electromagnetic radiation
that penetrate the Earths atmosphere
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What are radio waves and visible light.
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Radiation for 400
The relationship between the temperature of a
star and the wavelength of the radiation it emits.
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What is Weins Law?
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Radiation for 500
The name of the law that describes how light gets
dimmer further from its source.
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What is the Inverse-Square law?
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