DEEP SPACE TEST TERMS

Question 1

Large moving wall of rock, metal, and even space junk (remains of past missions);asteroids that head to Earth are usually just small rocks or even the size of pebbles by the time they hit the surface

Answer 1

Asteroid Belt

Question 2

Group of stars that form patterns in the sky

Answer 2

Constellation

Question 3

Large bodies of ice and rock that travel towards the center of the Solar System; comets will never hit Earth, because they have to traveled directly into the Sun

Answer 3

Comet

Question 4

Fragments of space material that land on Earth’s surface (like remains of asteroids; made of iron or rock

Answer 4

Meteorite

Question 5

The shape of Earth’s squished orbit around the Sun

Answer 5

Ellipse

Question 6

Struggle between two nation-states, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to get to space and have advanced flight technology

Answer 6

Space Race

Question 7

First Russian man to reach outer space

Answer 7

Yuri Gagarin

Question 8

Final step in space exploration–The Moon

Answer 8

Project Apollo

Question 9

First American man to reach outer space

Answer 9

Alan Shepard

Question 10

Cooperation and resources of 16 different countries resulted in a large beautiful, new space station

Answer 10

ISS (International Space Station)

Question 11

NASA’s Mars Project that holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth.

Answer 11

Odyssey