Gr. 6 Ch. 5 Flashcards
The planet often called the morning star
Venus
The planet that is tipped on its side
Uranus
The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue
Neptune
The “red planet”
Mars
The planet closest to the sun
Mercury
The planet with the Great Red Spot
Jupiter
The planet best known for its rings
Saturn
Jupiter’s moon
Ganymede
The largest planet in the solar system
Jupiter
Planet with wind speeds of over 1200 mph
Neptune
America’s first person in space
Alan Shepard
First human being to set foot on the moon
Neil Armstrong
This person developed the reflecting telescope
Isaac Newton
This person was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens
Galileo
The first American to orbit the earth
John Glenn
The first man to travel in space
Gagarin
This person discovered the planet Uranus
Herschel
This person is known as the father of modern rocketry
Goddard
This person discovered that white light is made up of many colors
Isaac Newton
This person was the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration
Von Braun
These are made up of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field
Electromagnetic waves
This is any object that orbits a larger object
A satellite
This is an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown
Space probe
This is how fast the light travels
186,000 miles per second
This describes how fast a wave oscillates
frequency
This is the turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle
Reflection
A device used to make distant objects appear clear and closer
Telescope
This is a device that splits light into a spectrum for analysis
Spectroscope
These are rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves
Pulsars
People who journey into outer space
Astronauts
This satellite would relay a phone call from England to Australia
A communications satellite
Meteorologists would use information from this to learn of a coming hurricane
A weather satellite
Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern
Oscillation
Mars is one of these planets
Inner
Jupiter is one of these planets
Outer
The first artificial object ever put into space
Sputnik 1
Russian space station designed for modules to be added
The Mir
First spacecraft designed to be reused
Space shuttle
First spaceflight to land on the moon
Apollo 11
First US space station
Skylab
First US satellite
Explorer 1
Space station being developed by a group of over 15 nation
International Space Station
Placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens
Hubble Space Telescope
Movement of energy from one place to another
A wave
A single rise or depression in a wave
Pulse
The high point of a wave
The crest
Low point of a wave
Trough
Whatever carries a wave
Wave medium
The orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the Earth at all times
Geostationary orbit
The satellite give information to airplanes, ships and other vehicles about their position and speed
Navigational satellites
GPS stands for this
Global Positioning System
The type of telescope the Hershels built that was 40 feet long
Reflecting telescope
