This type of telescope bends light then magnifies it.
What is a refracting telescope?
100
This form of Electromagnetic Radiation that we can see.
What is a Visible Light?
100
The first to develop rockets
Who were the Chinese?
100
The first satellite
What was Sputnik I?
200
Telescopes that collect visible light.
What are optical telescopes?
200
This type of telescope uses a curved mirror.
What is reflecting telescope?
200
This is a building that contains one or more telescopes.
What is an Observatory
200
Used rockets to attack Americans during the War of 1812.
Who were the British?
200
The first American satellite.
What was Explorer I?
300
The movement made by electromagnetic radiation.
What are waves?
300
This piece of glass is thicker in the middle and thinner around its edges.
What is a convex lens?
300
The larger the lens, the _____________ the image.
What is Clearer?
300
The advantage of a multistage rocket.
What is total weight of the rocket is reduced as the rocket rises?
300
An orbit that appears to stay in one place.
What is Geosynchronous orbit?
400
He invented the refracting telescope.
Who was Hans Lippershey?
400
This is a building that contains one or more telescopes.
What is an observatory?
400
Please tell me why a DARK mountaintop is an ideal location for a telescope.
There is less LIGHT POLLUTION when you are above sea level and away from city lights.
400
Newton's Third Law of Motion.
What is "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
400
4 major types of satellites.
What are Communication, weather, military/spy, scientific, or navigation satellites?
500
This person used a refracting telescope to study space.
Who is Galileo?
500
These are devices used to detect radio waves from objects in space.
What is a radio telescope?
500
Why do space telescopes capture clearer images than telescopes located on Earth?
Telescope used from Earth have distorted (blurry) images because of the ATMOSPHERE. Since space telescopes are past the murky atmosphere they can capture beautiful, clear images.