Gr. 6 Ch. 5

Question 0

The planet often called the morning star

Answer 0

Venus

Question 1

The planet that is tipped on its side

Answer 1

Uranus

Question 2

The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

Answer 2

Neptune

Question 3

The “red planet”

Answer 3

Mars

Question 4

The planet closest to the sun

Answer 4

Mercury

Question 5

The planet with the Great Red Spot

Answer 5

Jupiter

Question 6

The planet best known for its rings

Answer 6

Saturn

Question 7

Jupiter’s moon

Answer 7

Ganymede

Question 8

The largest planet in the solar system

Answer 8

Jupiter

Question 9

Planet with wind speeds of over 1200 mph

Answer 9

Neptune

Question 10

America’s first person in space

Answer 10

Alan Shepard

Question 11

First human being to set foot on the moon

Answer 11

Neil Armstrong

Question 12

This person developed the reflecting telescope

Answer 12

Isaac Newton

Question 13

This person was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens

Answer 13

Galileo

Question 14

The first American to orbit the earth

Answer 14

John Glenn

Question 15

The first man to travel in space

Answer 15

Gagarin

Question 16

This person discovered the planet Uranus

Answer 16

Herschel

Question 17

This person is known as the father of modern rocketry

Answer 17

Goddard

Question 18

This person discovered that white light is made up of many colors

Answer 18

Isaac Newton

Question 19

This person was the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration

Answer 19

Von Braun

Question 20

These are made up of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field

Answer 20

Electromagnetic waves

Question 21

This is any object that orbits a larger object

Answer 21

A satellite

Question 22

This is an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown

Answer 22

Space probe

Question 23

This is how fast the light travels

Answer 23

186,000 miles per second

Question 24

This describes how fast a wave oscillates

Answer 24

frequency

Question 25

This is the turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle

Answer 25

Reflection

Question 26

A device used to make distant objects appear clear and closer

Answer 26

Telescope

Question 27

This is a device that splits light into a spectrum for analysis

Answer 27

Spectroscope

Question 28

These are rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves

Answer 28

Pulsars

Question 29

People who journey into outer space

Answer 29

Astronauts

Question 30

This satellite would relay a phone call from England to Australia

Answer 30

A communications satellite

Question 31

Meteorologists would use information from this to learn of a coming hurricane

Answer 31

A weather satellite

Question 32

Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern

Answer 32

Oscillation

Question 33

Mars is one of these planets

Answer 33

Inner

Question 34

Jupiter is one of these planets

Answer 34

Outer

Question 35

The first artificial object ever put into space

Answer 35

Sputnik 1

Question 36

Russian space station designed for modules to be added

Answer 36

The Mir

Question 37

First spacecraft designed to be reused

Answer 37

Space shuttle

Question 38

First spaceflight to land on the moon

Answer 38

Apollo 11

Question 39

First US space station

Answer 39

Skylab

Question 40

First US satellite

Answer 40

Explorer 1

Question 41

Space station being developed by a group of over 15 nation

Answer 41

International Space Station

Question 42

Placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens

Answer 42

Hubble Space Telescope

Question 43

Movement of energy from one place to another

Answer 43

A wave

Question 44

A single rise or depression in a wave

Answer 44

Pulse

Question 45

The high point of a wave

Answer 45

The crest

Question 46

Low point of a wave

Answer 46

Trough

Question 47

Whatever carries a wave

Answer 47

Wave medium

Question 48

The orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the Earth at all times

Answer 48

Geostationary orbit

Question 49

The satellite give information to airplanes, ships and other vehicles about their position and speed

Answer 49

Navigational satellites

Question 50

GPS stands for this

Answer 50

Global Positioning System

Question 51

The type of telescope the Hershels built that was 40 feet long

Answer 51

Reflecting telescope