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Test 9 Flashcards

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This is the planet that is tipped on its side

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Uranus

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The planet often called the morning star

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Venus

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This is the planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

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Neptune

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This is the “red planet”

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Mars

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This is the planet that is closest to the sun

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Mercury

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This is the planet with the Great Red Spot

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Jupiter

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This is 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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This is the largest planet in the solar system

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Jupiter

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This is the planet with wind speeds of over 1,200 mph

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NEptune

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This was America’s first person in space

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Shepard

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This is the first human being to set foot on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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This is the man who developed the reflecting telescope

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Isaac Newton

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This wast he first person o make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens

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Galileo

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This was the first American to orbit the earth

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Glenn

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This was the first man to travel in space

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Gagarin

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This is the man who discovered the planet Uranus

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Herschel

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This is the man who 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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Newton

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

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Von Braun

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This is the name of the term that consists of a vibrating electric field and magnetic field.

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Electromagnetic waves

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This is the name for any object that orbits a larger object

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A satellite

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This is the name for an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown

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Space probe

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This is the speed that light travels

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186,000miles per second

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This is the term that describes how fast a wave oscillates

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Frequency

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The is the term that refers to turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle

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Reflection

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Is Jupiter one of the inner or outer planets

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Outer planets

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Is mars one of the inner or outer planets?

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Inner

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This term refers to to eh back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern

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Oscillation

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This is the term fo the type of satellites that meteorologists use to learn of a coming hurricane

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Weather satellite

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This is the term for the type of satellite that would relay a phone call from England to Australia.

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Communication satellite

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This is the name given to the people who journey into outer space

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Astronauts

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This is the term rotating stars that emit directional beamsof radio waves

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Pulsars

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

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Spectroscope

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This is the name of the device used to make distant objects appear clearer and closer.

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Telescope

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This was 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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This is the first U.S. Satellite

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Explorer I

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This is the first U.S.space station

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Skylab

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This is the first space flight to land on the moon

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Apollo 11

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This is the first spacecraft designed to be reused

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Space shuttle

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This is the Russian space station designed for modules to be added

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Mir

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This is the first artificial object ever put into space

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Sputnik I

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This is the term for the movement of energy from one place to another

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Wave

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This is single rise or depression in a wave

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Pulse

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The single rise or depression in a wave

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Pulse

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This is the term for the high point of a wave

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Crest

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This is the low point of a wave

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Trough

48
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This is what carries a wave

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Wave medium

49
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This is the orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times

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Geostationary

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