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Gr. 6 Ch. 5 Flashcards

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The planet often called the morning star

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Venus

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The planet that is tipped on its side

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Uranus

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The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

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Neptune

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The “red planet”

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Mars

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The planet closest to the sun

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Mercury

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The planet with the Great Red Spot

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Jupiter

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The planet best known for its rings

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Saturn

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Jupiter’s moon

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Ganymede

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The largest planet in the solar system

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Jupiter

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Planet with wind speeds of over 1200 mph

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Neptune

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America’s first person in space

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Alan Shepard

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First human being to set foot on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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This person developed the reflecting telescope

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Isaac Newton

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

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Galileo

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The first American to orbit the earth

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John Glenn

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The first man to travel in space

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Gagarin

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This person discovered the planet Uranus

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Herschel

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This person is known as the father of modern rocketry

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Goddard

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

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Isaac Newton

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

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Von Braun

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

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Electromagnetic waves

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This is any object that orbits a larger object

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A satellite

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This is an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown

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Space probe

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This is how fast the light travels

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186,000 miles per second

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This describes how fast a wave oscillates

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frequency

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

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Reflection

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A device used to make distant objects appear clear and closer

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Telescope

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

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Spectroscope

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These are rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves

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Pulsars

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People who journey into outer space

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Astronauts

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This satellite would relay a phone call from England to Australia

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A communications satellite

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

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A weather satellite

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Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern

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Oscillation

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Mars is one of these planets

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Inner

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Jupiter is one of these planets

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Outer

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The first artificial object ever put into space

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Sputnik 1

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Russian space station designed for modules to be added

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The Mir

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First spacecraft designed to be reused

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Space shuttle

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First spaceflight to land on the moon

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Apollo 11

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First US space station

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Skylab

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First US satellite

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Explorer 1

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Space station being developed by a group of over 15 nation

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International Space Station

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

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Movement of energy from one place to another

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A wave

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A single rise or depression in a wave

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Pulse

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The high point of a wave

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The crest

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Low point of a wave

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Trough

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Whatever carries a wave

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Wave medium

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

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Geostationary orbit

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

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Navigational satellites

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GPS stands for this

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Global Positioning System

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

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Reflecting telescope

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