PLANETS EARTH’S MOON $100 HISTORY THE SOLAR SYSTEM MIXED BAG $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 THE CLOSEST PLANET TO THE SUN WHAT IS MERCURY? THE 4 TERRESTRIAL PLANETS WHAT ARE MERCURY VENUS, EARTH, AND MARS? THE LARGEST PLANET WHAT IS JUPITER? PLANET WITH A “RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE EFFECT” WHAT IS VENUS? THE 4 “JOVIAN” PLANETS WHAT ARE JUPITER SATURN, URANUS AND NEPTUNE? SMOOTH, DARK AREAS OF THE MOON WHAT ARE MARIA? APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF DAYS IN ONE ORBIT OF THE MOON AROUND EARTH WHAT IS 27 TO 28? IT MEANS THE MOON APPEARS TO BE GETTING SMALLER EACH NIGHT WHAT IS WANING? TIME OF DAY WHEN FULL MOON RISES WHAT IS SUNSET? NAME OF PHASE BETWEEN FIRST QUARTER AND FULL MOON WHAT IS WAXING GIBBOUS? FIRST TO USE THE TELESCOPE TO STUDY PLANETS AND MOON WHO WAS GALILEO? HE REALIZED THAT PLANETS GO AROUND THE SUN, NOT THE EARTH WHO WAS COPERNICUS? DAILY DOUBLE HE FIGURED OUT THAT PLANETS MOVE IN ELLIPSES WHO WAS KEPLER? HE FIGURED OUT THE LAWS OF GRAVITY WHO WAS ISAAC NEWTON? THE YEAR THAT HUMANS FIRST WALKED ON THE MOON WHAT IS 1969? THE NUMBER OF PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHAT IS 8 ? THE APPROXIMATE AGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHAT IS 4 TO 5 BILLION YEARS? THE SOLAR SYSTEM FIRST STARTED AS THIS CLOUD OF DUST AND GAS WHAT WAS THE SOLAR NEBULA? DAILY DOUBLE THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS IN THIS GALAXY WHAT IS THE MILKY WAY? THESE OBJECTS EVENTUALLY FORMED INTO THE PLANETS WHAT ARE PLANETESIMALS OR PROTOPLANETS? THEY MAINLY ORBIT BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER WHAT ARE ASTEROIDS? THESE OBJECTS ARE OFTEN CALLED SHOOTING STARS WHAT ARE METEORS? MARS HAS ONLY TWO SMALL ONES WHAT ARE MOONS? THE THIN COATING OF DUST ON THE MOON’S SURFACE WHAT IS REGOLITH? THE ONLY PLANET WITH JUST 1 MOON WHAT IS EARTH? http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm