Space Survival & Engineering
Clue: Your spacesuit helmet gets a smudge blocking part of your vision while working outside the ship. Instead of panicking, what is the safest first step to take?
Answer: What is telling your crewmate/Mission Control or adjusting your view while staying calm?
Clue: This red planet features Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our entire solar system.
Answer: What is Mars?
Clue: Decipher the movement code:
"STAR-HOP" = Jump to Star
"MOON-HOP" = Jump to Moon
What does "MARS-HOP" mean?
Answer: What is Jump to Mars?
Clue: The hallway during class changes gets very loud and overwhelming. What is one tool or strategy you can use to protect your sensory system?
Answer: What is using noise-canceling headphones, earplugs, or taking a planned quiet route?
Clue: I have a head and a tail, but no body. I am made of ice and dust, and I glow when close to the Sun. What am I?
Answer: What is a comet?
Clue: Gravity on the Moon is weaker than on Earth. If you weigh 90 pounds on Earth, you weigh 1/6th of that on the Moon. What is your lunar weight?
Answer: What is 15 pounds? ($90 \div 6$)
Clue: Venus rotates in the opposite direction of most planets. On Venus, in which direction does the Sun rise?
Answer: What is the East?
Clue: Figure out the alien plural rule:
"GLOOP" = 1 Alien
"GLOOP-S" = 2 Aliens
"BLAST" = 1 Rocket
How would an alien say "2 Rockets"?
Answer: What is "BLAST-S"?
Clue: Your teacher gives 5 verbal directions at once, but your brain only catches the first two. What is a helpful way to get the rest of the steps?
Answer: What is asking the teacher to write them down, looking at a board, or asking a peer?
Clue: Complete the repeating pattern: Full Moon, Half Moon, New Moon, Half Moon, ____?
> Answer: What is a Full Moon?
Clue: A space station loses 25% of its power. Name one non-essential system you can turn off to save energy for life support systems.
Answer: What is extra lighting, video games/entertainment, or non-urgent experiments?
Clue: If you had a bathtub giant enough to hold it, Saturn would float in water. What physical property makes this possible?
Answer: What is low density? (Saturn is less dense than water!)
Clue: The alien prefix "UN-" changes a word to its exact opposite:
"NOVA" = Hot
"UN-NOVA" = Cold
"ZAP" = Fast
What does "UN-ZAP" mean?
Answer: What is Slow (or Not Fast)?
Clue: You have a big school project due in two weeks. What is the best way to keep from getting overwhelmed at the start?
Answer: What is breaking it down into small, daily micro-steps?
Clue: Probe A is faster than Probe B. Probe C is slower than Probe B. Which probe is the fastest of all three?
Answer: What is Probe A?
Clue: Your moon rover’s smooth plastic tires keep slipping on fine space dust. What engineering modification would increase traction?
Answer: What is adding treads, rubber grooves, or spikes to the tires?
Clue: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a giant storm. It is so large that this entire planet could fit inside it.
Answer: What is Earth?
Clue: An alien ship sends a number code where each number stands for a letter:
1 = S
2 = U
3 = N
What space word is the ship sending with the code 1 - 2 - 3?
Answer: What is SUN?
Clue: You are deeply engrossed in a favorite topic when the teacher suddenly announces it's time to switch subjects. What is a strategy to help transition smoothly?
Answer: What is bookmarking your spot, taking a deep breath, or placing it in a "finish later" folder?
Clue: Decipher the alien language:
"ZORP" = Star
"ZORP-NIX" = Bright Star
"KREE-NIX" = Bright Moon What is the alien word for Moon?
Answer: What is "KREE"?
Clue: You are stranded with three items: a box of matches, a magnetic compass, and a solar flashlight. Which item is completely useless on Mars and why?
Answer: What is the magnetic compass (Mars lacks a magnetic field) OR the matches (there is no oxygen to burn)? (Either answer is correct!)
Clue: Neptune looks deep blue because methane absorbs red light. If an alien planet's atmosphere absorbed all colors except green, what color would the planet appear?
Answer: What is Green?
Clue: Decode the speed lights on an alien dashboard:
🟢 Green Light = Go
🟢🟢 Two Green Lights = Go Fast
🔴 Red Light = Stop
What does 🟢🟢🔴 (Two Greens + One Red) tell the pilot to do?
Answer: What is Go fast, then Stop?
Clue: An unexpected schedule change happens at school today (like an unplanned assembly). Name two regulation tools you can use when your routine shifts.
Answer: What is using a fidget tool, deep breathing, checking a visual schedule, or asking a trusted adult for guidance?
Clue: Four supply boxes need to be arranged by weight: Box A is heavier than Box B. Box C is heavier than Box A. Box D is lighter than Box B. Put the boxes in order from lightest to heaviest.
Answer: What is D, B, A, C?