Basic Knowledge of Earth & Space
Earth Movements
Spacecraft
Earth and other planets
Vocabulary
100
The scientific study of the Universe?
What is Astronomy
100
The tendency for moving objects on Earth to follow a curved path when moving across the surface
What is the Coriolis Effect?
100
Mariner 3 and Mariner 4 flew past this red planet approximately 50 years ago.
What is Mars?
100
This planet has a thick, hot atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
100
All the frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
200
The first astronomers thought that the stars, planets, and sun revolved around this planet.
What is Earth?
200
This heavenly body orbits the Earth every 28.15 days.
What is the moon?
200
This space telescope was launched in April 1990.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
200
The percentage of the Earth's surface that is covered by the global ocean?
What is approximately 70-75% ?
200
The spin of a body on its axis.
What is rotation?
300
The only planet with the proper combination of liquid water, atmosphere, and temperature to support life.
What is Earth?
300
The period of revolution of Earth around the sun measured in "Earth days".
What is 365.25 days?
300
This fast moving probe is scheduled to fly past Pluto on July 15, 2015.
What at is the New Horizons probe?
300
A dwarf planet
What is pluto?
300
A closed curve whose shape is determined by two points or foci.
What is an ellipse?
400
NASA
What is the National Aeronautics & Space Administration?
400
Ancient astronomers studied the movements of these patterns of stars in the night sky.
What are constellations?
400
The largest human made satellite orbiting Earth and is visible without a telescope.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
400
A unit of distance equal to Earth's average distance from the Sun (approximately 150,000,000 km).
What is an Astronomical Unit (AU)?
400
The point in an orbit that is closest to the sun.
What is perihelion?
500
This is the fourth planet from the sun in our solar system.
What is Mars?
500
The point in Earth's orbit in which it is farthest from the sun.
What is aphelion?
500
The name given to one of the three rovers on Mars.
What is Spirit? or What is Opportunity? or What is Curiosity?
500
The planet with the funniest sounding name.
What is Uranus?
500
The process which powers the sun when two nuclei of small atoms combine to form a new, more massive nucleus.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
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