Welcome To Planetary Jeopardy

Welcome To Planetary Jeopardy

Enjoy Planetary Jeopardy • Choose players or groups - Individuals or Teams can play! • When a player knows an answer, he or she is to raise a hand to answer if playing in a group, or say “Beep” and answer if playing with one other person. Player #1 or Team #1 chooses a category and question dollar amount first. • Teacher or MC reads the “answer” completely, then contestants can respond. • After a response is given by a player, click anywhere on the slide to see the correct response. • Scores can be recorded by the teacher or MC. • Then, click “To Game Board” and continue the game until all categories are finished.

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$100 The smallest of the planets

$100 To Game Board What is Pluto?

$200 Separates the inner and outer planets

$200 To Game Board What is the asteroid belt?

$300 Has a giant red spot believed to be storms

$300 To Game Board What is Jupiter?

$400 The hottest of all planets

$400 To Game Board What is Venus?

$500 Has the largest volcano in the entire solar system

$500 To Game Board What is Mars?

$100 Named for the Roman god of time, our 6th day is derived from this name

$100 To Game Board Who was Saturn?

$200 Name for the winged messenger of the gods, known for his speed

$200 To Game Board Who was Mercury?

$300 Named for Gaia, who gave birth to the sea and sky

$300 To Game Board What is Earth?

$400 He was god of the underworld

$400 To Game Board Who was Pluto?

$500 His symbol is a lightning bolt and his Greek equivalent is Zeus.

$500 To Game Board Who is Jupiter?

$100 It takes approximately 23 hours, 56 minutes to make one complete turn on its axis.

$200 It has a day most similar to that of Earth.

$300 Until 1999, these planets had changed orbits

$300 To Game Board What are Pluto and Neptune?

$400 One year on this planet equals 248 Earth years.

$500 The planet that turns the slowest on its axis, creating the longest day in the solar system.

$500 To Game Board What is Venus?

$100 The Viking spacecraft showed that its atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide and that life as we know it probably never existed.

$200 Satellite maps showed a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica.

$300 Only the Hubble Telescope has sent back pictures of this far away planet.

$400 Pioneer 11 sent back information about its giant red spot.

$500 Launched by the Soviets, Venera 7 was the first spacecraft to land on this planet, or any other planet

$500 To Game Board What was Venus?

$100 Luna

$100 To Game Board What is the name of Earth’s moon?

$200 Ganymede, belonging to this planet, is the largest moon in the solar system.

$300 Phobos

$300 To Game Board What is one moon of Mars?

$400 Its single moon is almost as large as the planet itself.

Welcome To Planetary Jeopardy