SPACE VOCABULARY (SPELLATHON)

COMPETITION

Resource Guide Book

By Coordinator

Manager Ms Abida Hashmani Tel Office: 021-34650765-79 EXT: 2217 Cell #: 03322206779 Fax: +92-21-34690783 E-mail: hq-library@suparco.gov.pk

Content

1. Introduction

2. Levels

3. Participation

4. General Instructions

5. Event Instructions

6. Prize Distribution Ceremony

7. Sample Vocabulary Words and Pictures

Introduction:-

SUPARCO is going to organize the 1st Space Vocabulary Competition (SPELLATHON) as part activities

during the celebration of world Space Week 2017. Following stages are set for the competition.

The Competition will comprise of 03 Levels.

LEVEL -I: (Fill In the Blanks)

In this level words with missing letters will be showed for 20 seconds.

Teams will be answered in given time.

Winner’s teams will qualify for level II.

LEVEL -II: (Find Hidden Words)

In level II a word puzzle chart will be displayed individually for teams.

Each team will find five space related word within 02 minutes.

Winner teams will compete in next level.

LEVEL -III: (Picture Buzz Round)

In this level round space related pictures will be displayed on the screen

Teams will ring the bell to answer.

The team which rings the bell first will get the opportunity to answer.

Participation

a) Criteria for Participation

The competition is open to schools only. A branch of school will be treated as an individual school.

Each school can send a team of 02 students of age group 12 to 15 years.

Note: Students born in years 2002 - 2004 are eligible .

b) Registration Process

Submit the online registration form latest by 15th September 2017

OR Submit the hand-filled registration form with official stamp & properly sealed latest by 15th

September 2017

General Instructions

1. Mobile phones are strictly prohibited in SUPARCO premises.

2. Registration is to be done online through website where facilities are available. Govt. schools

would be given forms to be hand-filled with official seal stamped and returned the same

through courier by due date.

3. The names of the students are to be carefully filled in the form so as to write proper spellings

of the names on the certificates.

4. The accompanying teachers are required to fill in their correct CNIC number, cell phone

number, the school’s correct postal address and PTCL number for ease in communication and

record keeping.

5. Only students of 8th, 9th and 10th standards would be allowed to register for the event.

6. No school will be entertained after registration date is closed.

7. Besides competition team, maximum of 03 participants and 02 accompanying teachers from

each school would be allowed due to limited seating capacity in the auditorium.

8. No pick & drop facility shall be provided by SUPARCO.

9. Change of names of students and accompanying teachers would be entertained only until

registration is open. Kindly refrain from changing the names of the students or accompanying

teachers after registration is closed as it would not be given preference resulting in

disqualification of the school from the competition.

10. Entry at the gate would only be allowed if proper Student Identity Cards and CNIC cards are

presented by the students and their accompanying teachers.

11. The timings of the event are to be strictly followed.

12. Inappropriate, abusive or slang language will not be tolerated. No offensive remarks against

any political party/sect etc. will be tolerated.

13. Violation of defined rules may result in deduction of points or even disqualification.

14. The decision of the judges would be final and irrevocable.

Event Instructions

The participating schools will abide by the following rules:

1. Only those students will be allowed to participate who are nominated by school heads.

Nominations through Student Registration Form (attached with this document) should reach

competition coordinator Manager Abida Hashmani by 15 Sep, 2017 either by e-mail, TCS or

by fax.

2. One team will comprise only 02 students from each school.

3. Once the schools have nominated their participants, there will be no changes in the names

of the participants. In case any participants/s fails to appear on the day of the competition

the team will not be disqualified and will be allowed to one student as a team.

4. The teams have to come in their proper school uniforms for the competition.

5. The “Spellathon Competition” words/pictures will be displayed on screen & will be

conducted in rounds.

6. After the ‘word' is given to the team the total time given to each team will be 20 seconds to

answer. If the team starts spelling the word before the 20 seconds mark has reached he/she

shall be allowed to complete the spelling the word, but he/she will not be allowed to

retrace.

7. The team will not be allowed to retrace if the word asked has been completed once.

8. A new word/picture will be asked if there is any objection raised by a team.

9. In the event of any disruptions, the team that is being disrupted will get a new word and

new start time of 20 seconds.

10. Appeals, if any, have to be submitted to focal person and will be entertained by the Jury at

the end of each round. The official appeal form will be available with the focal person inside

the Hall.

11. Appeals may be filled only by the respective School’s Spellathon Coordinator. Jury will not

entertain appeals from individuals.

12. Teams will be required to stay quite when a team is being questioned. Comments and

remarks of all kinds to other team are prohibited.

13. The audience must Not prompt or call out during the competition. They will be required to

maintain pin drop silence at the time of the competition.

Prize Distribution Ceremony

14. Prize distribution ceremony will be held at NCRG AUDITORIUM on 10th Oct 2017 from 14:15

pm -1500 hrs.

15. Certificates of participation and prizes for top three teams will be distributed.

16. All participants are encouraged to attend.

Any change in the program will be communicated in due time.

Sample Pictures Vocabulary

Sample Words Vocabulary

A Absolute

Acceleration

Adventure

Aerodynamics

Aerogel

Aerospace

Air Force

Alpha Centauri

Altitude

Ambient

Ammonia

Apastron

Aperture

Apex

Aphelion

Apogee

Apollo

Apotheosis

Aquarius

Argon

Ariel

Ascendant

Asteroid

Asteroid Belt

Astrobiology

Astrology

Astronaut

Astronomer

Astronomical Unit

Astronomy

Astrophysics

Atlas

Atmosphere

Atomic

Aurora

Axial Tilt

Axis

Azimuth

B Background

Radiation

Balloon

Barry-center

Barycentre

Bayer System

Beyond

Big Bang

Big Bang Theory

Binary

Binary Star

Binary Star System

Black Body

Black Dwarf

Black Dwarfs

Black Hole

Blazar

Blazing

Blue Moon

Blue Star

Bodies

Bolide

Bolometer

Bright Nebulae

Brown Dwarfs

Buffet

Bulge

Burn

Burst

Byproduct

C Capricorns

Carbon

Carbon Dioxide

Carter

Celestial

Celestial Bodies

Celestial Equator

Celestial Poles

Celestial Sphere

Centrifugal Force

Ceremony

Challenger

Chaos

Charge

Charon

Chiron

Chromospheres

Circular

Cislunar

Climate

Closest Star

Clouds

Cluster

Cold

Collision

Colossal

Coma

Combustion

Comet

Communication

Compact Star

Composition

Conjunction

Constellation

Convection

Coriolis Force

Corona

Cosmic

Cosmic Rays

Cosmogony

Cosmology

Cosmonaut

Cosmos

Crater

Crescent Moon

Crew

Crowd

Crust

Crystals

D Danger

Dark Matter

Data

Day

De Revolution-bus

Declination

Deep Space

Degree

Density

Deploy

Descendant

Descent

Despina

Diameter

Disaster

Discover

Discovery

Disintegrate

Distant

Diurnal Motion

Docking

Doppler Effect

Doppler Shift

Double Star

Drake Equation

Drift

Dust

Dwarf Planet

Dwarf Star

E Earth

Earthbound

Earthshine

Eccentricity

Eclipse

Ecliptic

Ecosphere

Einstein

Electromagnetic

Electron

Electron

Element

Ellipse

Elliptical Orbit

Emission

Encircle

Equator

Equinox

Equipment

Escape Velocity

Evaporation

Event Horizon

Evolution

Evolved Star

Exobiology

Exoplanet

Exosphere

Expansion

Expedition

Experiment

Exploration

Explosion

Exposure

External

Extragalactic

Extraterrestrial

Eyepiece

F Face Of Mars

Faculae

Falling Star

Fertile Material

Fireball

Fireworks

Fissile Material

Fission

Fission

Fissionable Material

Flare

Flares

Flight

Fluid

Fluorocarbon Content

Flyby

Focus

Force Field

Formation

Fornjot

Fossil Fuel

Fragment

Free Fall

Full Moon

Fusion

G Galactic

Galatea

Galaxy

Galileo

Gamma Ray

Gamma Rays

Gas

Gas Giant

Gaseous

Gauss

Geocentric

Geologist

Geomagnetism

Geophysics

Geostationary

Geosynchronous

Giant Star

Gibbous

Gibbous Moon

Global

Globular Cluster

Glow

Gravitation

Gravitational Constant

Gravitational Lens

Gravity

Ground State

Gyroscope

H Half Moon

Halley

Harvest Moon

Hazard

Heat

Heavenly Body

Helene

Heliocentric

Heliopause

Heliosphere

Helium

Hemisphere

High Tide

Horizon

Horse-head Nebula

Hubble

Hubble Telescope

Hubble's Law

Hydraulic

Hydrogen

Hydrology

Hyperbolic Orbit

Hypernova

Hypothesis

I Ice Giant

Icy

Ignite

Ignition

Illumination

Image

Impulse

Incandescent

Inclination

Inertia

Inferior Planets

Infrared

Inner Planets

Instrument

Instruments

Intergalactic

Interplanetary

Interstellar

Interstellar Dust

Interstellar Space

Interstellar

Investigation

Ionosphere

Isotope

Isotropy

J Jettison

Journey

Jupiter

K Kelvin

Kiloparsec

Kinetic

Kirkwood Gaps

Knots

Krypton

Kuiper Belt

L Land Form

Lapetus

Latitude

Launch

Launch Pad

Lens

Libra

Lidar

Liftoff

Light

Light Years

Linear

Lithosphere

Local Arm

Local Group

Location

Longitude

Luminosity

Lunar

Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Month

Lunation

Lupus

M Magnetar

Magnetic

Magnetopause

Magnitude

Maneuver

Map

Mars

Mass

Measurements

Megaparsec

Mercury

Meridian

Mesosphere

Meteor

Meteor Shower

Meteorite

Meteoroid

Meteoroids

Meteors

Methane

Microgravity

Micron

Milky Way

Millibar

Millions

Mineral

Minor Planet

Mir

Mission

Module

Molecules

Momentum

Monochromatic

Moon

Muttnik

N Nadir

Navigation

Nebula

Neon

Neptune

Neutron

Neutron Star

New Moon

Newton

Nitrogen

Node

North Star

Northern Lights

Nova

Nuclear

Nucleus

O Objects

Obliquity

Observable

Observatory

Oort Cloud

Operation

Opposition

Orbit

Orbital Eccentricity

Orbital Inclination

Origin

Orion Nebula

Outer Planets

Outer Space

Overlap

Oxygen

Ozone

Ozone Layer

P Parallax

Parsec

Partial Eclipse

Particles

Path

Payload

Pegasus

Penetrate

Penumbra

Periastron

Perigee

Perihelion

Perturbation

Phase

Phenomena

Photometry

Photon

Photosphere

Pisces

Planet

Planetarium

Planetary

Planetary Nebula

Planetoid

Planetologist

Planisphere

Plasma

Plato

Pleiades

Plutino

Pluto

Polaris

Pole

Pole Star

Polestar

Positions

Precession

Primary Star

Probe

Prominence

Propellant

Propulsion

Protection

Proton

Protons

Protostar

Protosun

Prototype

Proxigee

Pulsar

Q Quantum

Quark

Quarter Moon

Quasar

Quest

Quintessence

R Radar

Radiant

Radiation

Radioactive

Rays

Red Dwarf

Red Giant Star

Red Shift

Re-Entry

Reflect

Reflector

Refracting

Reject

Relativity

Reliability

Remote Sensing

Research

Restriction

Retrograde Orbit

Revolution

Revolve

Right Ascension

Rings

Rocket

Rocks

Rotation

Rover

S Sagittarius

Saros Cycle

Satellite

Saturn

Scalar

Science

Scientific

Scientific Notation

Scientist

Scintillation

Scorpius

Seasons

Seismic

Seismometer

Selenography

Sensation

Session

Seyfert Galaxies

Shock Wave

Shooting Star

Shuttle

Sidereal

Simulation

Singularity

Sir Issac

Sirius

Sky

Soar

Solar

Solar Cycle

Solar Day

Solar Eclipse

Solar Mass

Solar System

Solar Wind

Solar Year

Solid

Solstice

Solunar

Sonic Boom

Space

Space Craft

Space Elevator

Space Exploration

Space Probe

Space Shuttle

Space Station

Space Suit

Space Trash

Space Weather

Spacecraft

Spectral Class

Spectral Line

Spectrograph

Spectrometry

Spectroscope

Spectrum

Spherical

Spinning

Spiral

Spiral Galaxy

Spring Tides

Sputnik

Star

Star Cluster

Star Dust

Star Trail

Starburst Galaxy

Starlight

Starquake

Stars

Stellar

Stellar Wind

Stishovite

Storms

Stratosphere

Subatomic

Subduction

Sun

Sun Dog

Sunquake

Sunspot

Super Nova

Supercluster

Supergiant

Superior Planets

Supernova

Surface

Surface Gravity

Swirling

Symbols

Synchronous Satellite

Synchrotron

Synodic Month

T Tail

Taurus

Tectonic Activity

Telemetry

Telescope

Temperature

Terminator

Terra

Terrestrial

Terrestrial Planets

Tethys

Thermosphere

Thrust

Tidal Forces

Tidal Heating

Tide

Titan

Total Eclipse

Training

Trajectory

Transit

Translunar

Transmissions

Transneptunians

Transpiration

Transport

Trapezoid

Triton

Tropics

Tropopause

Troposphere

Tsunami

Turbulence

Twinkle

Twinkling

U Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet Rays

Ultraviolet Telescope

Umbra

Umbriel

Unique

Universe

Universal Time

Unstable

Uranometria

Uranus

V Vacuum

Van Allen Belt

Vaporize

Variable Star

Variation

Varuna

Vega

Velocity

Venus

Vernal Equinox

Vibration

Virgo

Virtual

Viscosity

Visible

Vision

Visual Magnitude

Volcanic

Volcano

Voluntary

Voyage

W Waning

Waning Moon

Warming

Wave

Wavelength

Waxing

Waxing Crescent

Waxing Gibbous

Waxing Moon

Weather

Weightlessness

Whirl

White Dwarf

White Giant

White Hole

Wind

Winter

Wormhole

X X-Ray

X-Rays

Y Yellow Dwarf

Z Zeeman Effect

Zenith

Zero

Zodiac

Zodiacal

Zodiacal Light

Zone