6th Grade Science Test 9

Question 1

the planet that is tipped on its side

Answer 1

Uranus

Question 2

the planet often called the morning star

Answer 2

Venus

Question 3

the planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

Answer 3

Neptune

Question 4

the “red planet”

Answer 4

Mars

Question 5

the planet closest to the sun

Answer 5

Mercury

Question 6

the planet with the Great Red Spot

Answer 6

Jupiter

Question 7

the planet best known for its rings

Answer 7

Saturn

Question 8

Jupiter’s moon

Answer 8

Ganymede

Question 9

the largest planet in the solar system

Answer 9

Jupiter

Question 10

the planet with windspeed of over 1,200 mph

Answer 10

Neptune

Question 11

I was America’s first person in space.

Answer 11

Shepard

Question 12

I was the first human being to set foot on the moon

Answer 12

Armstrong

Question 13

I developed the reflecting telescope.

Answer 13

Newton

Question 14

I was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens.

Answer 14

Galileo

Question 15

I was the first American to orbit the earth.

Answer 15

Glenn

Question 16

I was the first man to travel in space.

Answer 16

Gagarin

Question 17

I discovered the planet Uranus

Answer 17

Herschel

Question 18

I am known as the “Father of Modern Rocketry”

Answer 18

Goddard

Question 19

I discovred that white light is made up of many colors

Answer 19

Newton

Question 20

I was the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration.

Answer 20

von Braun

Question 21

consist of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field

Answer 21

electromagnetic waves

Question 22

any object that orbits a larger object

Answer 22

satellite

Question 23

an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown

Answer 23

space probe

Question 24

light travels at

Answer 24

186,000 miles per second

Question 25

how fast a wave oscillates

Answer 25

frequency

Question 26

the turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle

Answer 26

reflection

Question 27

a device used to make distant objects appear clearer and closer

Answer 27

telescope

Question 28

a device that splits light into a spectrum

Answer 28

spectroscope

Question 29

rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves

Answer 29

pulsars

Question 30

people who journey into outer space

Answer 30

astronauts

Question 31

satellite that would relay a phone call from England to Australia

Answer 31

communications

Question 32

meteorologists would use information from a __ satellite to learn of a coming hurricane.

Answer 32

weather

Question 33

any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern

Answer 33

oscillation

Question 34

Mars is one of the __ planets

Answer 34

inner

Question 35

Jupiter is one of the ___ planets

Answer 35

outer

Question 36

first artificial object ever put into space

Answer 36

Sputnik 1

Question 37

Russian space station designed for modules to be added

Answer 37

Mir

Question 38

first spacecraft designed to be reused

Answer 38

space shuttle

Question 39

first space flight to land on the moon

Answer 39

Apollo 11

Question 40

first U.S. space station

Answer 40

Skylab

Question 41

first U.S. satellite

Answer 41

Explorer 1

Question 42

space station being developed by a group of over 15 nations

Answer 42

Hubble Space Telescope

Question 43

placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens

Answer 43

Hubble Space Telescope

Question 44

the movement of energy from one place to another

Answer 44

wave

Question 45

a single rise or depression in a wave

Answer 45

pulse

Question 46

the high point of a wave

Answer 46

crest

Question 47

the low point of a wave

Answer 47

trough

Question 48

whatever carries a wave

Answer 48

wave medium

Question 49

the orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the spot above the earth at all times

Answer 49

geostationary orbit