CHAPTER 5 SCIENCE TEST REVIEW

Planets

100

The planet best known for its rings

Saturn

200

The planet closest to the sun

Mercury

300

The largest planet in the solar system

Jupiter

400

The planet with windspeeds of over 1,200 mph

Neptune

500

Jupiter's moon

Ganymede

Names

100

I was the first human being to set foot on the moon.

Armstrong

200

I discovered that white light is made up of many colors.

Newton

300

I developed the reflecting telescope.

Newton

400

I am known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry."

Goddard

500

I discovered the planet Uranus.

Herschel

Waves

100

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

Wave

200

The high point of a wave is called the

Crest

300

The low point of a wave is called the 

Trough

400

A single rise or depression in a wave is called a 

Pulse

500

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

Geostationary

True/False

100

A satellite is any object that orbits a larger object.

True

200

The term wavelength describes how fast a wave oscillates.

False- Frequency

300

Light travels at 350,000 miles per second.

False- 186,000

400

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

False- Reflection

500

A space shuttle is an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unkown.

False- Space Probe

Space

100

First artificial object ever put into space.

Sputnik 1

200

First space flight to land on the moon

Apollo 11

300

First U.S. satellite

Explorer 1

400

Space station being developed by a group of over 15 nations. 

International Space Station

500

Placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens 

Hubble Space Telescope