Final Science Exam Study Guide

Question 1

The original project was announced by the United States in 1984 was called Space Station Freedom

Answer 1

False

Question 2

There are twelve astronauts on the Iss

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Construction of the ISS began in 1998.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Russian module called Zarya.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Astronauts can exercise on the ISS.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The Cupola is a small room on the Tranquility module with seven windows for viewing.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The ISS takes 20 minutes to orbit earth.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The ISS has been continuously inhabited since November 2000.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Funding will continue forever.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The ISS is locaated in high Earth orbit, far beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Columbia Space Mission

Answer 11

7 people were killed because the orbiter leaked and it exploded. Chandra x-ray observatory deployed

Question 12

Challenger Space mission

Answer 12

Millions of people watching, then The space shuttle blew up. And the Challenger crew all died from the explosion.

Question 13

Discovery Space mission

Answer 13

NASA’s Third mission is the mission that sent three satellites into Space.

Question 14

Atlantis/Endeavor

Answer 14

The Space Shuttle Atlantis is absolutely a real craft – it flew 33 missions and orbited the Earth nearly five thousand times before it was retired. Today, it lives at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida – but it didn’t fly in March of 1998. In fact, it didn’t fly at all in 1998.

Question 15

Optical telescopes

Answer 15

Use light to produce magnified images.

Question 16

Reflecting telescope

Answer 16

Uses a concave mirror to see distant objects

Question 16

Refracting telescopes

Answer 16

Uses convex lenses to concentrate light from a object.

Question 17

Radio Telescope

Answer 17

Collects radio waves and same microwaves using an antenna.

Question 18

Hubble Space Telescope

Answer 18

First Satellite ever put into space.

Question 19

Rockets

Answer 19

Launches things into space.

Question 20

Satellite

Answer 20

revolves around earth.

Question 21

Space probes

Answer 21

A spacecrarft

Question 22

Space shuttles

Answer 22

A spacecraft that carries people to space and materials to space.

Question 23

Astrobiology

Answer 23

The study of life in the universe, including life on earth and the possibility of extra life.