Test 9

Question 1

This is 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

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

Answer 3

Neptune

Question 4

This is the “red planet”

Answer 4

Mars

Question 5

This is the planet that is closest to the sun

Answer 5

Mercury

Question 6

This is the planet with the Great Red Spot

Answer 6

Jupiter

Question 7

This is the planet best known for its rings

Answer 7

Saturn

Question 8

Jupiter’s moon

Answer 8

Ganymede

Question 9

This is the largest planet in the solar system

Answer 9

Jupiter

Question 10

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

Answer 10

NEptune

Question 11

This was America’s first person in space

Answer 11

Shepard

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Neil Armstrong

Question 13

This is the man who developed the reflecting telescope

Answer 13

Isaac Newton

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Galileo

Question 15

This was the first American to orbit the earth

Answer 15

Glenn

Question 16

This was the first man to travel in space

Answer 16

Gagarin

Question 17

This is the man who discovered the planet Uranus

Answer 17

Herschel

Question 18

This is the man who is known as the “FAther of Modern Rocketry”

Answer 18

Goddard

Question 19

This person discovered that white light is made up of many colors

Answer 19

Newton

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Von Braun

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Electromagnetic waves

Question 22

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

Answer 22

A satellite

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Space probe

Question 24

This is the speed that light travels

Answer 24

186,000miles per second

Question 25

This is the term that describes how fast a wave oscillates

Answer 25

Frequency

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Reflection

Question 27

Is Jupiter one of the inner or outer planets

Answer 27

Outer planets

Question 28

Is mars one of the inner or outer planets?

Answer 28

Inner

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Oscillation

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Weather satellite

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Communication satellite

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Astronauts

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Pulsars

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Spectroscope

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Telescope

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Hubble Space Telescope

Question 37

This is the first U.S. Satellite

Answer 37

Explorer I

Question 38

This is the first U.S.space station

Answer 38

Skylab

Question 39

This is the first space flight to land on the moon

Answer 39

Apollo 11

Question 40

This is the first spacecraft designed to be reused

Answer 40

Space shuttle

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Mir

Question 42

This is the first artificial object ever put into space

Answer 42

Sputnik I

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Wave

Question 44

This is single rise or depression in a wave

Answer 44

Pulse

Question 45

The single rise or depression in a wave

Answer 45

Pulse

Question 46

This is the term for the high point of a wave

Answer 46

Crest

Question 47

This is the low point of a wave

Answer 47

Trough

Question 48

This is what carries a wave

Answer 48

Wave medium

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Geostationary