what is a natural or artificial object that orbits a body in space: space shuttle or satellite
What is a satellite
100
What is the distance that light travels in one year = to 10 trillion Km: astronomical unit or light year
What is a light year
100
who is the person that made the telescope strong enough to see the moon: Sargon or Gallileo
Who is Gallileo
100
what do you call the force produced that sends an object forward( rocket): push or thrust
What is thrust
100
What is the study of space and heavenly (celestial) bodies: Astrology or Astronomy
What is Astronomy
200
What is a satellite that orbits the earth from pole to pole and sends back information back to scientists: moon satellite or landsat satellite
What is a Landsat satellite
200
What is the distance from the Earth to the sun equal to 150 million Km. It is used to measure the distance between the planets: Astronomical unit or Kilometers
What is an astronomical unit
200
who were the people who invented the rocket: Russian or Chinese
Who are the Chinese
200
what is the part of the space shuttle that launches the orbiter, detaches and falls in the ocean . reusable: liquid fuel tank or booster rockets
What are booster rockets
200
What do you call an explosion that sent matter flying in all directions forming the universe: Big mouth or big bang
What is Big Bang
300
what do you call the resuseable space craft designed in the 1970s that is used to bring astronauts and satellites into space: space race or space shuttle
What is a space shuttle
300
A unit that serves as a basis for making certain measurements: feet or standard
What is a standard
300
what two careers relied on astronomers: sailors and farmers or doctors and nurses
Who are sailors and farmers
300
What is the part of the space shuttle that provides fuel to the orbiter, drops off, and burns up in the atmosphere: shuttle orbiter or liquid fuel tank
What is the liquid fuel tank
300
What is the name of two space probes that were launched in 1977 and are still sending signals to scientists: Columbus or Voyager
What is Voyager
400
what do you call the place where scientists can live in space for many days: The Jetson's house or Space station
What is a Space station
400
The unit used to measure liquid volume in the metric system is : gallon or liter
What is a liter
400
who started the space race: Russia or USA
Who are the Russians
400
What is the part of the space shuttle that is the only part that goes into space and it can be used many times: booster rocket or shuttle orbiter
What is the shuttle orbiter
400
What is a robot like instrument that goes where it is too dangerous for astronauts : space needle or space probe
What is a space probe
500
What do you call a large collection of stars with a black hole in the center: starburst or Galaxy
What is a Galaxy
500
mass is measured in grams using a : thermometer or balance scale
What is balance scale
500
who were the people in early times that predicted eclipses of the sun on clay tablets: Astrologers or Astronomers
Who are Astronomers
500
what is the term used to conduct a repair outside of the orbiter: EVA or TWA
What is a EVA or extra vehicular Activtiy
500
Scientist are learning more about the formation of the universe from this: Docherty space telescope: or Hubble Space telescope