Definitions
Extreme Environments
Surviving Extreme Environments
Earth and Our Solar System
Space Travel
100
Places where humans do not live (but may choose to explore) because it's conditions are not supportive of human life.
What is an extreme environment?
100
This environment is found at the opposite ends of the Earth.
What is a polar region?
100
This is an aboriginal technology that helps protect an explorer's eyes.
What are goggles?
100
These are what make up our solar system? (6 things)
What are planets, their moons,the Sun, asteroids, dust and gases?
100
This is the force that causes a rocket to move.
What is thrust?
200
Methods of providing air, water, and food.
What are life support systems?
200
This is the only environment not found on Earth.
What is space?
200
This is the technology that keeps an astronaut safe during a space walk.
What is a space suit?
200
This is what causes objects in space that are viewed through a telescope to appear blurry.
What are water vapour, dust, and pollutants?
200
This is what drops off a rocket once all the fuel inside it has been burned.
What is a stage?
300
Gases that surround our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
300
This environment is found inside the Earth.
What are caves?
300
This is a technology that shelter's astronauts while they are working in space.
What is the space station?
300
This is the force that pulls together two objects that have mass.
What is gravity?
300
This is why the stages of a rocket break off.
What is to make the rocket lighter as fuel is burned off in each stage.
400
a tube with fuel at the lower end, that uses force from burned fuel to push the tube upward.
What is a rocket?
400
These environments are found deep within the Earth's waters. (Two different names.)
What are ocean trenches and sea floor vents?
400
This is an aboriginal technology that allows explores of polar regions to move freely across the snow.
What are snowshoes?
400
This is what affects the strength of gravity between two objects.
What is the mass of the objects and the distance between them?
400
These are the engines that provide thrust to a space vehicle during launch.
What are booster rockets?
500
Cargo, astronauts, and measuring systems.
What is a payload?
500
This is an environment that lacks water and has extreme heat or cold.
What is a desert?
500
This technology can supply oxygen to explorers when they find themselves in an environment that lacks it.
What are air tanks?
500
This is what the outer atmosphere, or halo, around the Sun is called.
What is the corona?
500
These are some of the challenges astronauts have to overcome when working in space.
What are microgravity, working in a vacuum, and communicating with Earth?
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