Rocketry & Solar System

Question 1

What is Action?

Answer 1

Opposite reaction

Question 2

What activity demonstrated this statement (action/opposite reaction)?

Answer 2

Balloons on the fishing line.

Question 3

What is more mass?

Answer 3

More force.

Question 4

What activity demonstrated this statement (more force/more mass)?

Answer 4

Air/Water fueled soda rocket.

Question 5

Still?

Answer 5

Stays still

Question 6

Moving?

Answer 6

Stays moving.

Question 7

What activity demonstrated this statement (still - stays still/ moving - stays moving)?

Answer 7

Rock and cup experiment.

Question 8

Who developed the first liquid fuel rocket?

Answer 8

Robert Goddard

Question 9

What advantage do liquid fuel rocket engines have?

Answer 9

Controllable

Question 10

What causes the thrust or push in rocket engines?

Answer 10

Rapidly expanding gases in combustion chamber push down.

Question 11

Spies from which country stole liquid-fuel rocket designs from our scientist?

Answer 11

Germany

Question 12

Why did this country steal these liquid-fuel rocket designs?

Answer 12

To develop a missile to bomb England and the United States.

Question 13

After World War II, which country became interested in the scientists who stole the liquid-fuel rocket designs from our scientist?

Answer 13

Soviet Union (Russia)

Question 14

What did this country (Russia) do in 1957 that shocked the United States?

Answer 14

Sent up first satellite into space (sputnick)

Question 15

What did sputnick cause the United States to do?

Answer 15

Take space exploration more seriously.

Question 16

Why was the United States so far behind Russia with space exploration?

Answer 16

The United States did not rocket research from 1945 to 1958.

Question 17

Who was the first man sent into space?

Answer 17

Yuri Gagarin

Question 18

Who was the first American sent into space?

Answer 18

Alan Shepard.

Question 19

What NASA mission carried one man into orbit?

Answer 19

Mercury

Question 20

What NASA mission allowed the United States to send two men into space to practice docking and space walks?

Answer 20

Gemini.

Question 21

What NASA mission allowed the United States to send three men on trip to the moon?

Answer 21

Apollo

Question 22

What NASA mission allowed the United States to use a spacecraft many times in order to carry supplies and equipment into orbit?

Answer 22

The Space Shuttle

Question 23

Why are rockets staged?

Answer 23

To allow the rocket to drop a portion when its fuel supply is used up.

Question 24

What two forces work together to allow a satellite to orbit?

Answer 24

Inertia and gravity

Question 25

What is a planet?

Answer 25

A large spherical body that orbits the sun.

Question 26

What is a moon?

Answer 26

A large spherical body that orbits a planet.

Question 27

What is an asteroid?

Answer 27

A small chunk of matter that orbits the sun or a planet.

Question 28

What planets are in our solar system from the sun outward?

Answer 28

Mercury/Venus/Earth/Mars/Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune/Pluto (this planet is disputed).

Question 29

What plants are terrestrial?

Answer 29

Mercury/Venus/Earth/Mars/Pluto

Question 30

What planets are gaseous?

Answer 30

Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune

Question 31

What is wrong about most solar system diagrams?

Answer 31

They can not possibly show both the relative size and distance.

Question 32

What might be an appropriate response to the enormity of the universe?

Answer 32

"How Great Thou Art"

Question 33

What do we call the different 'faces' of the moon?

Answer 33

Phases

Question 34

What causes these different 'faces'?

Answer 34

The changing amount of illuminated surface that we can see from earth based on its position.

Question 35

How long does it take the moon to revolve around the earth?

Answer 35

About a month ('moonth')

Question 36

What chance is there that our moon would just happen to rotate and revolve at the same rate as that we always see exactly the same side century after century?

Answer 36

Very little

Question 37

What does this 'chance' for the moon rotating and revolving suggest to you?

Answer 37

God is great and very much in control of His creation.

Question 38

What English scientist developed statements that defined motion?

Answer 38

Sir Isaac Newton