Test 9 (Chapter 5)

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Galileo

Question 2

I was America’s first person in space

Answer 2

Shepard

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Armstrong

Question 4

The planet that is tipped on its side

Answer 4

Uranus

Question 5

the planet with wind speeds of over 1,200 mph

Answer 5

Neptune

Question 6

the planet often called this morning star

Answer 6

Venus

Question 7

the largest planet in the solar system

Answer 7

Jupiter

Question 8

Jupiter’s moon

Answer 8

Ganymede

Question 9

the planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

Answer 9

Neptune

Question 10

the planet best known for its rings

Answer 10

Saturn

Question 11

the “red planet”

Answer 11

Mars

Question 12

The planet with the Great Red Spot

Answer 12

Jupiter

Question 13

The planet closest to the sun

Answer 13

Mercury

Question 14

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

Answer 14

von Braun

Question 15

I was the first American to orbit the earth

Answer 15

Glenn

Question 16

I discovered that white light is made up of many colors

Answer 16

Newton

Question 17

I am known as the “Father of Modern Rocketry”

Answer 17

Goddard

Question 18

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

Answer 18

reflection

Question 19

These consist of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field

Answer 19

electromagnetic waves

Question 20

any object that orbits a larger object

Answer 20

satellite

Question 21

How fast does light travel?

Answer 21

186,00 miles per second

Question 22

an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown

Answer 22

space probe

Question 23

Jupiter is one of the ________ planets

Answer 23

outer

Question 24

Mars in one of the _____ planets

Answer 24

inner

Question 25

Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern

Answer 25

oscillation

Question 26

a device used to make distant objects appear clearer and closer

Answer 26

telescope

Question 27

this type of satellite would relay a phone call from England to Australia

Answer 27

communications satellite

Question 28

rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves

Answer 28

Pulsars

Question 29

People who journey into outer space

Answer 29

astronauts

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Hubble Space Telescope

Question 31

first artificial object ever put into space

Answer 31

Sputnik I

Question 32

space station being developed by a group of over 15 nations

Answer 32

International Space Station

Question 33

first U.S. Satellite

Answer 33

Explorer I

Question 34

first spacecraft designed to be reused

Answer 34

space shuttle

Question 35

first U.S. space station

Answer 35

Skylah

Question 36

first space flight to land on the moon

Answer 36

Apollo 9

Question 37

The movement of energy from one place to another

Answer 37

wave

Question 38

The single rise or depression in a wave

Answer 38

pulse

Question 39

Whatever carries a wave

Answer 39

wave medium

Question 40

The low point of a wave

Answer 40

trough

Question 41

the high point of a wave

Answer 41

crest