The Universe
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Space Lingo
100
What is responsible for holding the stars, gas, and dust together in a galaxy?
What is gravity?
100
The sun, the Moon, and the earth are not lined up.
What is low tide?
100
Shooting stars.
What is a meteroid?
100
What type of spacecraft is the Hubble Space Telescope?
What is artificial satellite?
100
This is the distance that light travels through space in one year.
What is light year?
200
What word describes the physical composition of a terrestrial planet?
What is rocky?
200
The water level slowly rising and falling twice that day.
What are tides?
200
This smaller body in space that has the fastest orbital speed is _________.
What is a comet?
200
Satellite photos provide information about
What is weather, temperature, land use, and changes over time.
200
The average distance between the Sun and the Earth, which is 150,000,000km.
What is an astronomical unit?
300
Viewed from Earth, the sun and moon appear to be the same size. What is the main factor that explains this?
What is distance?
300
What tide is it when the earth, moon, and sun are lined up?
What is a spring tide?
300
The 4 gas Planets.
What are Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter?
300
Some places in the universe are too distant for humans to observe directly. What technology is used to observe distant places (other than a telescope)?
What is a space probe?
300
This is a large spherical body that orbits a star
What is a planet?
400
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a tiny point in the sky for a period of 10 days. 342 exposures were placed together to create an image known as the Hubble Deep Field. It shows at least 3,000 groups of billions of stars. What term is used to describe this group of stars?
What is a galaxy?
400
The northern hemisphere is tilted _____________ the sun in June.
What is toward?
400
The sun does not rotate in the same way the Earth does. The sun has different periods of rotation at different latitudes. The sun's speed of rotation is fastest here.
What is equator?
400
Refracting telescopes use lenses. Reflecting telescopes use mirrors. However, both types have something in common. Both types of telescopes utilize _______________ __________________.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
400
This is a measure of a star's brightness as seen from the Earth.
What is apparent magnitude?
500
An astronomer uses a telescope to observe a star. What characteristics can be used to compare stars?
What is color and temperature?
500
Two main categories of technology that humans use to explore space?
What is crewed and uncrewed?
500
What technology do satellites work together to aid in navigation?
What is GPS?
500
Florida's nickname is "The Sunshine State" Which type of electromagnetic waves can be harmful to Floridians who spend time outside in the sunshine?
What is ultraviolet radiation?
500
These are the 3 main types of solar activity?
What are sunspots, solar flares, and prominences?
600
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What space object are these astronauts working on?
What is a space station?
600
In which of the following technologies do satellites work together to aid in navigation?
Global Positioning System
600
What is one method that people do not use to make observations from a distance?
What is a micrpscope?
600
Which spacecraft can people use to travel to and from orbits close to Earth?
What is a Space Shuttle?
600
Dark regions are forested areas, and light areas show where trees have been removed. Scientists used these images to find out the extent of deforestation during the period 2000 to 2006.
Compare the image from 2000 to the image from 2006. How has the image changed over this six year period?
The amount of deforested land has increased in the 2006 image.
700
What was the name of the first satellite launched into space?
Who is Sputnik?
700
The world’s largest infrared telescope is located in Hawaii. Which type of electromagnetic radiation does this telescope collect?
What are waves longer than ultraviolet light?
700
The graph shown below was based on images taken by satellites
What can you conclude from this graph?
The percentage of land that is expected to be developed will increase by 20% between 2010 and 2020.
700
Which of these electromagnetic waves has the longest wavelength?
What is a radio wave?
700
What can the Kepler spacecraft be termed?
What is an uncrewed, orbital spacecraft?