stars jeopardy game

By: Emma Summers, Maddie Yuval, Jennifer Ying

STARS JEOPARDY GAME

Big Bang and Nuclear Fusion Structure of the Sun Features of the Sun Gravity in the Universe Life Cycles of Stars

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BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 100

Question: According to the Big Bang Theory how long ago was the Big Bang?

Answer: 13.8 billion years ago.

BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 200

Question: What is the definition of nuclear fusion?

Answer: Where two or more hydrogen nuclei collide forming helium.

BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 300

Question: What are the two elements involved in nuclear fusion?

Answer: hydrogen and helium.

BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 400

Question: All ______ and ________ in the universe was condensed into ___ ______ ______ in ____.

Answer: Matter; energy; one single point; space

BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 500

Question: What four things formed moments after the Big Bang?

Answer: Hydrogen, protons, neutrons, and electrons

BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 600

Question: Evidence for the Big Bang?

Answer: background radiation, composition of matter in the universe

BIG BANG AND NUCLEAR FUSION 700

Question: Explain The Doppler Effect and Hubble's Law

Answer: The change in frequency of a wave for an observer relative to its motion; the further away an object is from Earth, the faster it is moving

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 100

Question: What process occurs at the core of the sun?

Answer: Nuclear Fusion

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 200

Question: Name all of the layers of the sun from the inside to the outside.

Answer: core, radioactive zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, corona.

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 300

Question: When can you see the corona?

Answer: during a total solar eclipse.

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 400

Question: What two types of heat transfer are found in the sun?

Answer: convection and radiation.

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 500

Question: What are radiation photons and what layer are they found in?

Answer: they are particles of light which are located in the radioactive zone.

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 600

Question: What causes the chromosphere to appear as a red rim around the sun?

Answer: Due to hydrogen in the chromosphere layer.

STRUCTURE OF THE SUN 700

Question: To the nearest hundredth, what are the percentages of hydrogen and helium in the sun?

Answer: hydrogen- 73.46% and helium 23.85%.

FEATURES OF THE SUN 100

Question: How many years does it take for the amount of sunspots to vary and what is that cycle called?

Answer: varies every eleven years and this is called the solar cycle.

FEATURES OF THE SUN 200

Question: Prominences dont jump from sunspot to sunspot (true or false).

Answer: False

FEATURES OF THE SUN 300

Question: What causes auroras (or the northern and southern lights)?

Answer: When electrically charged particles reach Earths atmosphere.

FEATURES OF THE SUN 400

Question: What are solar flares?

Answer: When large amounts of energy charged particles burst out briefly from the surface of sun.

FEATURES OF THE SUN 500

Question: What are prominences?

Answer: massive arches that are made up of glowing gas clouds.

FEATURES OF THE SUN 600

Questions: what layer of gases make up prominences very violent eruptions.

Answer: Chromospheric gases.

FEATURES OF THE SUN 700

Questions: What causes sunspots?

Answer: When the magnetic field breaks underneath, causing a disturbance in heat transfer.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 100

Question: What is the definition of gravity?

Answer: the force of attraction between two bodies in the universe.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 200

Question: __(whose)__ Law of Universal Gravitation?

Answer: Isaac Newton’s.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 300

Question: _(more, less)_ mass = _(more, less)_ gravitational pull

Answer: more; more or less; less.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 400

Question: _(more, less)_ distance = _(more, less)_ gravity

Answer: more; less or less; more.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 500

Question: What is the definition of the Law of Universal Gravitation?

Answer: the law stating that the force with which bodies are attracted to each other is directly proportional to the masses of the objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance by which they are separated.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 600

Question: What has a greater gravitational pull, the Sun or the Earth?

Answer: the Sun.

GRAVITY IN THE UNIVERSE 700

Question: The force of gravity is not enough to stop the universe from _____?

Answer: expanding.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 100

Question: Name two stellar remnants.

Answer: white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 200

Question: What does nebula in Latin mean?

Answer: cloud.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 300

Question: Can light escape a black hole?

Answer: no.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 400

Question: What percentage of stars life is spent in the main sequence?

Answer: 90%.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 500

Question: How long does it take a protostar to become a main sequence star?

Answer: 100,000 years.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 600

Question: What is a source of a burst of radio energy called?

Answer: pulsar.

LIFE CYCLES OF STARS 700

Question: Approximately how much does a pea sized sample of a neutron star weigh?

Answer: 100 million tons.