Space

Question 1

Meteoroids?

Answer 1

Chunks of rocky material in space

Question 2

Meteors?

Answer 2

Meteoroids that burn within our atmosphere (“shooting stars”)

Question 3

Meteorites

Answer 3

Meteors that land on earth

Question 4

Asteroids

Answer 4

Very large meteoroids that can be found between mars and Jupiter (asteroid belt)

Question 5

Comets

Answer 5

Like meteoroids but with lots of ice (ice tail)

Question 6

Water impact meteorite impact?

Answer 6

• Flood land
• Tsunamis
• Destruction
• No clean water
• Food
• Disease
• Shelter

Question 7

Land impact meteorite impact?

Answer 7

• Crater and destruction
• Change in land
• Giant dust cloud
• Dust cloud blocks sun
• No photosynthesis
• Food chain collapse
• Natural disaster
• Human complications (destruction)

Question 8

Aristotle?

Answer 8

Believed the earth was at the centre of the solar system (geocentric)

Question 9

Ptolemy?

Answer 9

Earth was at the centre of a Ferris Wheel in which each planet represented a seat, helped explain retrograde motion in the sky

Question 10

Copernicus?

Answer 10

Believed the wandering (retrograde) motion of planets could only be explained if the sun was in the centre (heliocentric)

Question 11

Galileo?

Answer 11

Invented the telescope

Question 12

Kepler?

Answer 12

Proved planets moved in an elliptical orbit, not a spherical orbit

Question 13

Newton?

Answer 13

Discovered gravity, which explained how planets stay in orbit

Question 14

Uranus?

Answer 14

1781

Question 15

Neptune?

Answer 15

1846

Question 16

Pluto?

Answer 16

Discovered in 1930, not 100% to be Plant X

Question 17

Voyager 1

Answer 17

Launched in 1971, discovered Jupiter’s red spot was a giant storm (hurricane)

Question 18

Voyager 2

Answer 18

Launched in ‘79, discovered Uranus had rings + a magnetic field. Also, that Neptune had dark spots similar to Jupiter’s red spot.

Question 19

Hubble Space Telescope

Answer 19

Launched in 1990, discovered the Schumacher-Leug 9 comets bombardment of Jupiter

Question 20

Sojourner

Answer 20

Launched in ‘97, explored the surface of Mars

Question 21

Where is the asteroid belt?

Answer 21

Between Mars and Jupiter

Question 22

Kuiper belt?

Answer 22

Contains dwarf planets and extends from the orbit of Neptune out 55 AU

Question 23

First four planets?

Answer 23

Terrestrial planets

Question 24

Second four planets?

Answer 24

Gas Giants