Exploring Space

Question 0

A large artificial satellite on which people can live is called a…

Answer 0

Space station

Question 1

The force that propels a rocket forward

Answer 1

Thrust

Question 2

T or F: The first American to orbit Earth was Alan Shepard

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Rockets were first developed in what country

Answer 3

China

Question 4

The space race was between which two countries

Answer 4

United States and the Soviet Union

Question 5

T or F: In a solid fuel rocket both oxygen and if you are in liquid form

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True or false: escape velocity is the velocity a rocket must reach to fly beyond the planets gravitational pull

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or false: observation satellites collect data using remote sensing

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Who was the first person in space?

Answer 8

Yuri Gagarin

Question 9

True or false: a space probe is a spacecraft that has no human crew

Answer 9

True

Question 10

To push something forward in a given direction

Answer 10

Propel

Question 11

The velocity a rocket must achieve to establish an orbit around a body in space

Answer 11

Orbital velocity

Question 12

Which kind of spacecraft can carry satellite in orbit?

Answer 12

Space shuttle

Question 13

Some space probes have small robots called ——- that collect samples from another planet

Answer 13

Rovers

Question 14

What is the main advantage of a multistage rocket?

Answer 14

The total weight of the rocket is reduced as the rocket rises

Question 15

Speed in a given direction

Answer 15

Velocity

Question 16

Humans first landed on the moon in what year?

Answer 16

1969

Question 17

The velocity an object must reach to fly beyond a planets or moons gravitational pull

Answer 17

Escape velocity

Question 18

An object that revolves around another object in space

Answer 18

Satellite

Question 19

A spacecraft that can carry a crew in the space, return to earth, and then be reused for the same purpose

Answer 19

Space shuttle

Question 20

A large artificial satellite on which people can live and work for long periods of time

Answer 20

Space station

Question 21

An item that has uses on earth but was designed for use in space

Answer 21

Space spinoff

Question 22

The spacecraft that has various scientific instruments that can collect data, including visual images, but has no human crew.

Answer 22

Space probe

Question 22

A place that is empty of all matter

Answer 22

Vacuum

Question 23

The condition of experiencing weightlessness in space

Answer 23

Microgravity

Question 24

The collection of information about earth and other objects in space using satellites or probes

Answer 24

Remote sensing

Question 26

In orbit in which a satellite orbiting earth at the same rate earth rotates and the stays in the same place all of the time

Answer 26

Geostationary orbit

Question 27

I device that expels gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction

Answer 27

Rocket