The title held by the ruler of Ancient Egypt and is the equivalent of a king or emperor
What is a pharoah
100
Before becoming and astronaut he was a pilot in the Marine Corps and was chosen to participate in the NASA Space Task Group, he is the 1st American to orbit the Earth in his famed ship, the Friendship 7
Who is John Glenn
100
Is a vast system of interlinked computers and local computer networks initially beginning as a communication tool by the military
What is the internet
100
A degree of hotness or coldness that is measured by using a thermometer
What is temperature
100
Language in which hands, arms, head, facial expressions, and body language are used to speak without sound
What is sign language
200
The belief in many gods which was a common belief in ancient times seen in the cultures of ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, and Norway
What is polytheism
200
Can be something that transmits information by using radio signals which are received by transmission stations on earth, something that orbits another mass in space, or follows and collects data on weather
What are satellites
200
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell 1876, enables speech to be sent along wires, used a trumpet like mouth piece and earpiece combination, Thomas Edison developed the wall mounted version that had to be wound while listening
What is the telephone
200
Collections of tiny ice drops, water, or ice crystals and because they are tiny drops they are light enough to float in the air
What are clouds
200
Writing system used by the blind that is read by touch and feeling the patterns of raised dots and marks
What is braille
300
The longest river in the world, the only river that flows from south to north, and because of its flooding and receding it made the soil of Egypt fertile (able to support plant growth)
What is the Nile River
300
Program began October of 1958 and its goals were to send the 1st man into space to orbit the Earth, study the ability to function in space, how to handle situations in zero gravity, and the effects of space on vision
What is the Mercury Project
300
Initially made of glass then eventually and most famous for being plastic; has a spiral groove with sound information was etched into it and was rotated and read by a needle attached to the arm by recording the vibrations and transmitting the information to the speaker
What is a record
300
Twice a day, 500 of these are released into the sky carrying instruments that record the atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed
What are weather balloons
300
Ancient Egyptian system of writing using pictures and systems that could be written in several directions, including top to bottom, but usually from right to left with the picture symbols facing the beginning of the line.
What are hieroglyphs
400
The best known and most depicted of Egyptian gods, he has the head of a wild dog with the body of a man and is the guard of the dead
Who is Anubis
400
1st man made satellite to be launched into space and around the Earth by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. The purpose was to gather data of the atmosphere
What is Sputnik
400
Invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1447 and it made copying documents by hand obsolete by using pre-cut letters made from wood, arranging them for the page, putting ink on them, and then laying the paper on top to make copies
What is the printing press
400
Intense storm with heavy rain and winds reaching up to 150mph, the often start in the United States because of the cold water and air of the Atlantic Ocean pushing into the warm water and air in the Gulf of Mexico
What is a hurricane
400
One of the earliest forms of writing, developed by the Sumerians in about 3500 B.C.E. The writing was not symbols but actually just triangles and squares tilted in different directions and of different sizes
What is cuneiform
500
Official writers of hieroglyphs, near the top of Egyptian society, were always males who trained for this job from ages 9-13
What are scribes
500
An international network of high tech, steerable, reflector antennas that transmit images and information to and from space crafts and connect with other antennas around the world
What is the deep space network
500
Popular way to send a message before the telephone, it used a wired electric current to send messages, and the language used was Morse Code which is a form of the alphabet in which each letter has a corresponding sound or series of sounds that went with a system of dashes and dots
What is a telegraph
500
Bands of color in a rainbow which are separated by the degree of light, the order of the colors is represented by ROYGBIV
What is the spectrum
500
Discovered along the Nile River by French soldiers; had a passage written in hieroglyphs, demotic, and ancient Greek. Jean-Francois Champollion used the Greek as a translator to begin understanding hieroglyphs