Vocabulary
To send off with force
What is a launch?
A spacecraft carrying scientific instruments to record or report back information about planets or other objects in outer space.
What is a probe?
A person who is an expert in studying buildings, tools, pottery, weapons, and other objects of ancient times.
Who is an archeologist?
The first diving ship to explore the ocean depths in 1930.
What is the bathysphere?
Who is a cosmonaut?
An instrument for making distant objects appear closer and larger.
What is a telescope?
A person or country that wants and tries to get the same thing as another, or to equal or do better than another.
Who is a rival?
The wind speed is required for this storm to be classified as a hurricane
What is more than 75 miles per hour?
The name of the first man-made satellite the Soviet Union launched into orbit in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
He was the first American sent into space in 1961.
Who was Alan Shepard?
The path of a satellite or ship as it travels around another body in space
What is an orbit?
The study of the ocean and its floor
What is oceanography?
A man-made object shot by a rocket into an orbit around the earth or another heavenly body.
What is a satellite?
The acronym for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
What is NASA?
On July 20, 1969, these two astronauts were the first humans to step on the moon.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin?
A long, narrow chain of hills or mountains
What is a ridge?
A storm with violent winds and usually heavy rain.
What is a hurricane?
The Mariana Trench is found in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The name for men and women who go into outer space for the United States
Who are astronauts?
The first three stages of the American space program
What are Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo?
A long, deep, narrow area like a valley or a canyon in the ocearn floor
What is a trench?
Shallow ocean water around the large land masses on Earth.
What is the continental shelf?
He invented the aqualung in 1943.
Who is Jacques Costeau?
Scuba is an acronym for these words.
What is a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus?
He was the first man sent into space by the Soviet Union in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?