BIG BANG
When the big bang occured.
What is 14 billion years ago?
Give two descriptors of our sun.
What are: medium sized star, large enough to hold our solar system together, no solid surface?
Reason we look for oxygen in space.
What is because it is needed by living things on earth?
This space rock is typically found in a belt between the inner and outer planets.
What is asteroid?
Which Apollo mission successfully put men on the moon?
What is Apollo 11?
The one word that best describes what happened during the big bang.
What is EXPANSION?
Name two things found in our galaxy.
What are stars,gas, dust, planets, nebulae, black holes and star clusters?
This building block of all living things is also released when we burn fossil fuels.
What is carbon?
Which space rock is just a dirty snowball made of dust and ice? Hint: we can see a tail as the ice melts.
What are comets?
What space shuttle exploded after re-entry due to foam breaking the carbon fiber on the wing?
What is Columbia?
Name one thing that was released during the Big Bang.
What are matter or energy?
The materials for the planets came from...
What is the sun's leftovers?
Name either of the elements we look for because they are needed to pass on genetic information.
What are nitrogen and phosphrous?
Which planets are small and rocky? Name them in order.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
What is the name of the scientific lab orbiting earth?
What is the ISS or International Space Station?
This had to happen in the universe for the very first atoms to form.
What is cooling?
This force holds our solar system together.
Describe the inner planets.
What is gravity?
What are small and rocky?
The reason sulphur may indicate life.
What is that it is a building block for proteins and amino acids?
Which of these could you see streaking across the night sky; meteoroid, meteor or meteorite?
What is meteor?
What are the two telescopes that are collecting information about the beginning of the universe?
What are the Hubble and the Webb?
This telescope is providing us with more information about the Big Bang then we have ever had before.
What is the Webb?
The planets in order from the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, MArs, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The reason we seek hydrogen in space.
What is that on earth is is produced by algae and during fermentation?
Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites are all made of what two things?
What are rock and metal?
What shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch due to a faulty O ring caused by cold temperatures?
What is the Challenger?