Our Solar System
The third planet from the Sun
What is Earth?
What is the International Space Station?
Satellites that make observations about the condition of Earth, and natural resources.
What is a remote sensing satellite
A rock flying through space
A meteoroid
Gravity pulls gas and dust together
What is a nebulae? ( the birth of a star)
A theory that states the Earth is at the center of the Solar System
What is the geocentric model?
For every action...
there is an equal and opposite reaction.
*Newton's third Law
A technological device that refracts light
Rocky metallic bodies between Mars and Jupiter
What is an asteroid?
The hypothesis in which molecular gas and dust came together to create the Sun and the other planets.
What is the Prototype Hypothesis?
What is Ursa Major ( aka the Big Dipper) ?
A star constellation
Contain instruments for robotic exploration of space.
What is a space probe
The distance over which a wave repeats
What is wavelength?
A rock that enters Earth's atmosphere ( also known as a shooting star).
What is a meteor?
A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram states this
What is as a star gets hotter, the star gets brighter
This occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, blocking all or a portion of the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?
The 3 hazards to space travel.
Environmental, Psychological and the effects on the body.
A group of telescopes working together
What is an array?
A rock that flies from space into Earth's atmosphere and crashes into earth
What is a meteorite?
A grouping of millions or billions of stars,and dust, held together by gravity
What is a galaxy?
The four Terrestrial Planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
The gas that ion drives use.
Xenon gas! Little bit of power, but last for a really long time for great acceleration.
Instrument used to tell what stars are made up by the light that reaches Earth
What is a spectroscope?
The direction of a star clockwise.
What is azimuth?
The Doppler Effect
The change in pitch ( sound) or color (red/blue) due to movement of an object