Astronomy Jeopardy

1. Astronomy Jeopardy

2. Planets I Planets II Stars Galaxies Universe

3. Planets I Planets II Stars Galaxies Universe                         

4. Which planet is closest to the Sun? Mars Venus Earth Mercury Neptune

5. Mercury

6. Which planet is this? Venus Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

7. Which planet is this? Saturn

8. Which planet has the largest mass? Venus Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

9. Jupiter

10. Which planet has the hottest surface? Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn

11. Venus

12. Which planet has the largest volcano? Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn

13. Mars

14. Which has dry riverbeds believed to have carried water in the distant past? Mercury Europa Titan Venus Mars

15. Mars

16. Rather than a planet, Pluto is a large member of the: Asteroid Belt Kuiper Belt OortCloud

17. Kuiper Belt

18. What was the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? 1 km 10 km 100 km 1000 km

19. 10 km

20. Which planet is this? Venus Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

21. Which planet is this? Jupiter

22. Which moon shows the best evidence for a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust? Ganymede Titan Io Callisto Europa

23. Europa

24. What is the Sun’s source of energy? fission fusion chemical reactions gravitation contraction dark energy

25. fusion

26. What is the distance to the nearest star to our solar system? 4 light years 400 light years 40,000 light years 4 million light years

27. 4 light years

28. After the Sun finishes hydrogen fusion, what will it become next? red giant supernova white dwarf black hole neutron star

29. red giant

30. For how long will the Sun continue to fuse hydrogen? 5000 years 5 million years 500 million years 5 billion years 5 trillion years

31. For how long will the Sun continue to fuse hydrogen? 5 billion years

32. What are these objects? galaxies supernovae planetary nebulae

33. What are these objects? planetary nebulae

34. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way? spiral elliptical dwarf irregular quasar

35. spiral galaxy

36. How many stars does the Milky Way contain? 200 thousand 200 million 200 billion 200 trillion

37. How many stars does the Milky Way contain? 200 billion

38. What is the diameter of the Milky Way in light years? 100 1000 100,000 10 million 1 billion

39. What is the diameter of the Milky Way in light years? 100,000

40. How long does it take the Milky Way to rotate once? 250 years 25,000 years 2.5 million years 250 million years

41. How long does it take the Milky Way to rotate once? 250 million years

42. What is the distance to the nearest large galaxy in light years? 20,000 2 million 200 million 20 billion Andromeda

43. What is the distance to the nearest large galaxy in light years? 2 million Andromeda

44. Immediately after the Big Bang, most of the universe consisted of dark energy dark matter radiation (light) normal matter (stars, planets, etc.)

45. Immediately after the Big Bang, most of the universe consisted of radiation (light)

46. How is the size of the universe changing over time? contracting expanding repeatedly expanding and contracting staying the same

47. expanding

48. What is the age of the universe? 13,800 years 13.8 million years 13.8 billion years 13.8 trillion years

49. 13.8 billion years

50. How is the expansion of the universe changing over time? expanding faster over time expanding slower over time expanding at a constant rate