GPS
Random 1
Scale of the Universe
Satellites 2
Random 2
100
This is what GPS stands for.
What is Global Positioning System.
100
Your professor's first name is this.
What is Brandon?
100
We used this object to represent the sun in our scale of the universe.
What is a hula hoop?
100
This is the decade when the first man made satellites went into space.
What is 1950s.
100
This is one reason from class as to why sending a human to Mars could be a bad idea.
What is poisonous soil?
What is exposure to cosmic rays?
What is weakened bodies, too weak to walk on Mars?
etc.
200
This is the orbit level for navigational satellites.
What is mid earth orbit.
200
The professor has this many kids.
What is 5?
200
When we did our scale of the universe, this was the last planet we were able to plot outside.
What is Mars?
200
When viewed from earth, satellites said to be this, don't appear to move.
What is geostationary, or geosynchronous
200
This is the temperature difference between sunny and shady parts of low-earth orbit.
What is approximately 500 degrees?
300
A navigational satellite is just a fancy one of these.
What is a clock?
300
This was the first activity we did in class.
What is battleship?
300
When we did the scale of the universe, these two objects were barely able to fit onto the same piece of paper.
What is the earth and the moon?
300
The first commercial satellites used these to get their satellites into orbit.
What are government rockets?
300
It is likely that there are other intelligent life forms outside our solar system. The limiting speed of this object is why we might not ever meet that intelligent life.
What is light?
400
This is the russian version of GPS.
What is GLONASS?
400
The study of objects in the night sky.
What is Astronomy?
400
When we watched a film about a team building their own scale of the universe, this was the object used for earth.
What is a blue marble?
400
The Falcon Heavy program from Space X tries to save costs with these.
What are reusable rocket boosters?
400
The sun operates on this type of nuclear power.
What is fusion?
500
This is what navigation systems do to fix your location.
What is triangulation.
500
When was Chaffey College founded?
What is 1883?
500
When looking at the deepfield photo here, each object is one of these.
What are galaxies?
500
This effect was described to be when there are so many particles of other objects in low earth orbit, that no satellites could survive.
What is the kessler effect?
500
The next complete solar eclipse over the US will happen in this year.
2024