Space Science Test

Question 1

Solar system

Answer 1

The system consisting of the sun and the

planets and other objects that revolve around it.

Question 2

Gravity

Answer 2

The attractive force between objects

Question 3

Probe

Answer 3

A space craft that has various instruments that collect data

Question 4

Rover

Answer 4

A small robotic space probe that can land on the surface of a planet

Question 5

Space shuttle

Answer 5

A space craft that cab carry a crew into space, return to earth and be reused

Question 6

Space station

Answer 6

A large article satellite on which people live and work for long periods

Question 7

Rotation

Answer 7

The spinning motion of a planet on its axis

Question 8

Revolution

Answer 8

The movement of an object moving around another object

Question 9

Meteor

Answer 9

A meteoroid that has entered earths atmosphere

Question 10

Comet

Answer 10

Chunks of ice and dust traveling through space

Question 11

Asteroid

Answer 11

A large rock object in space that orbits the sun

Question 12

Sun

Answer 12

Center of the solar system

Question 13

Planets

Answer 13

An object that orbits a star, is large enough to have become rounded by gravity and has cleared the area of orbit

Question 14

Dwarf planet

Answer 14

An object that orbits the sun and is spherical, but has not cleared the are of orbit

Question 15

Satellites (or moons)

Answer 15

Every planet in the solar system has at least in natural satellite or moon except for Mercury and Venus

Question 16

Epicycles

Answer 16

A smaller orbit that is used to explain the movements of the planets and the sun

Question 17

Elliptical orbit

Answer 17

An elliptical orbit is the revolving of one object around another in an oval-shaped path called an ellipse

Question 18

Heliocentric

Answer 18

having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.

Question 19

Geocentric

Answer 19

having or representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical