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Astro Challenge: Explore the Cosmos Jeopardy Game

Test your knowledge of astronomy with this engaging Jeopardy-style game featuring questions on constellations, telescopes, galaxies, gravity, and more. Choose your category and earn points by answering correctly. Discover the mysteries of the universe and learn about geocentric and heliocentric models, the Big Bang theory, and celestial bodies. Challenge your friends or compete solo to become an astronomy expert!

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Astro Challenge: Explore the Cosmos Jeopardy Game

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  1. Astronomy Jeopardy Geo/Helio Telescopes/ Constellations Galaxies/ Big Bang Gravity Vocab $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

  2. Which model explains the motions of the planets more accurately: Geocentric or heliocentric? Heliocentric 1 - $100

  3. 1 - $200 • Who was the first scientist to successfully use a telescope to observe the night sky? • Galileo

  4. 1 - $300 • What theory was overturned by the evidence gathered by Galileo? • Geocentric theory

  5. 1 - $400 • Describe the Heliocentric theory. • Sun is the center of the solar system

  6. 1 - $500 • Describe the Geocentric theory. • Earth is the center of the universe.

  7. 2 - $100 • A reflecting telescope gathers light with a _____ • Mirror

  8. 2 - $200 • Astronomers often locate telescopes on mountains to______________. • Lesson the interference of the Earth’s atmosphere.

  9. 2 - $300 • Astronomers use constellations to: • Locate objects in the sky

  10. 2 - $400 • Which stars do we always see during the year? • Stars on the horizon

  11. 2 - $500 • What so the stars in a constellation have in common? • The same general directions from Earth.

  12. 3 - $100 • Where in the Milky Way galaxy is our solar system found? • In an outer arm.

  13. 3 - $200 • A cluster of a billion stars is a ________. • Galaxy

  14. 3 - $300 • What does the big bang theory explain? • That the universe is expanding

  15. 3 - $400 • Why could the big bang theory possibly be replaced by another theory about the origin on the universe? • New evidence could show a different theory to be more accurate.

  16. 3 - $500 • Do scientists know what caused the small dense ball of energy and matter to expand and cool? • No, scientists do not know.

  17. 4 - $100 • Why is gravity known as the universal force? • It holds the universe together.

  18. 4 - $200 • If two planets get closer together, what happens to the gravitational force they exert on each other? • It increases

  19. 4 - $300 • What causes our solar system to have the shape that it does? • Gravitational force

  20. 4 - $400 • Gravity is stronger when objects are ________ • Close together

  21. 4 - $500 • If two planets get closer together, what happens to the gravitational force they exert on each other? • It increases

  22. 5 - $100 • What is a push or a pull? • Force

  23. 5 - $200 • What is all of space and everything in it? • The universe

  24. 5 - $300 • What is a natural satellite that revolves around a planet? • A moon

  25. 5 - $400 • The spinning of Earth on its axis • rotation

  26. 5 - $500 • A meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth’s surface. • A meterorite

  27. Final Jeopardy • The Big Bang theory hypothesizes that the universe began how many years ago? • 14 Billion years ago

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