6th grade science test #9

Planets

100

The planet best known for its rings

Saturn 

200

The planet closest to the sun

Mercury

300

The planet tipped on its side

Uranus 

400

This planet is often called the morning star

Venus 

500

The planet with the Great Red Spot

Jupiter 

600

The planet with windspeeds of over 1,200 MPH

Neptune

Outer Space

100

People who journey into outer space are called ________________

Astronauts 

200

What are rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves. 

Pulsars 

300

Mars is one of the ______________planets. 

(inner or outer)

Inner 

400

The orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times is the ______________ orbit

Geostationary

500

Name the first artificial object ever put into outer space?

Sputnik 1 

600

What is the name of Jupiter's moon

Ganymede 

Important people, places and things

100

I was the fist human being to set foot on the moon

Neil Armstrong 

200

I was America's first person in Space 

Alan Shepard 

300

I was the first American to orbit the earth

John Glenn

400

I was the first man to ever travel into space. 

Gagarin

500

A radio telescope is a device that splits light into a spectrum for analysis.  True or false?  If false, what is the correct answer.  

False/Spectroscope

600

Whatever carries a wave is called the __________________.  

Wave Medium

Space terms

100

A __________________ is any object that orbits a larger object. 

Satellite

200

What is a unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown. 

Space Probe

300

Jupiter is one of the inner or outer planets? 

Outer

400

What kind of satellites would relay a phone call from England to Australia.  

Communication

500

This was placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens. 

The Hubble Space telescope 

600

Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern is called ________________

Oscillation 

Scientists

100

I discovered teh planet Uranus 

Herschel

200

I discovered that white light is made up of many colors 

Newton

300

I developed the reflecting telescope 

Newton 

400

I was the first person to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens. 

Galileo 

500

I was the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration

von Braun

600

I am known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry"

Goddard 

Miscellaneous

100

The movement of energy from one place to another is called ______________________

Wave

200

The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

Neptune

300

The largest planet in the solar system

Jupiter 

400

The Russian space station designed for modules to be added

Mir

500

Meteorologists would use information from a __________________ satellite to learn of a coming hurricane. 

Weather

600

________________ is the turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle. 

Reflection