Electromagnetic Waves
The only electromagnetic wave humans can see.
What is visible light?
Pg 690
A telescope that uses a curved mirror to concentrate light from a distant object.
What is a reflecting telescope?
pg 692
A vehicle designed to propel itself by ejecting exhaust gas from one end.
What is a rocket?
pg 699
These planets are closer to the sun.
What are inner planets?
pg 708
Life that originates outside of Earth.
What is extraterrestrial life?
pg 711
The entire range of radiant energy carried by electromagnetic waves.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Pg 690
A telescope that collects radio waves and some microwaves using an antenna that looks like a TV satellite dish.
What is a radio telescope?
pg 693
Any small object that orbits a larger object.
What is a satellite?
pg 700
The first probe to visit Mercury.
What is the Messenger?
pg 708
U.S. President John F. Kennedy challenged the American people to send people to this planet.
What is the moon?
pg 703
Visible light includes this.
What are colors?
Pg 690
The two types of optical telescopes.
What are refracting and reflecting telescopes?
pg 692
Anything related to the moon.
What is lunar referring to?
pg 701
NASA has sent orbiters, landers, and rovers to this planet to see if there could potentially be life.
What is Mars?
pg 710
Enable astronomers to observe many more stars than they could with the naked eye.
What are telescopes?
pg 689
Emit mostly shorter waves with higher energy.
What are hot stars?
Pg 690
Three things detected by telescopes.
What are radio waves, microwaves, and visible light?
pg 692
Robots that work automatically or by remote control.
What are space probes?
pg 701
Unexpectedly, in a crater on the moon, a lunar solar probe found this.
What is water?
pg 711
The study of life in the universe, including life on Earth and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
What is astrobiology?
pg 711
Reflects light from the sun.
Why do we see planets?
Pg 691
Telescopes that work better in space, but we can still use them on Earth.
What are optical telescopes?
pg 694
Two things that have roots in space.
What are orthodontic braces and artificial limbs?
pg 703
A round body that orbits the Sun but is not massive enough to clear away other objects in its orbit.
What is a dwarf planet?
pg 709
Do not make their own energy and do not emit light.
What are planets?
pg 691