Planets and Moons
What is Uranus?
Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern.
What is oscillation?
America's first man in space.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
America's first man in space.
Who is Alan Shepherd?
The planet often called the morning star.
What is Venus?
The two types of waves that make an electromagnetic field.
What are a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Any object that orbits a larger object.
What is a satellite?
The outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. (Not Pluto anymore.)
The "red planet".
What is Mars?
The speed at which light travels.
What is 186,000 miles per second?
Who was Galileo?
An unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown.
What is a space probe?
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The term that describes how fast a wave oscillates.
What is frequency?
The first American to orbit the earth.
Who was Gagarin?
The first artificial object ever put into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
The smallest planet. (Not considered a planet any more).
What is Pluto?
The turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle.
What is reflection?
These people discovered Uranus.
Who are William and Caroline Herschel?
An older Russian space station that was used until 2001.
What is the Mir?
The planet best known for its rings.
What is Saturn?
The movement of energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?
The "Father of Modern Rocketry".
Who is Robert H. Goddard?
The first space craft to be reused.
What is the space shuttle?
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A single rise or depression in a wave.
What is a pulse?
This man discovered that white light is made up of many colors.
Who is Sir Issac Newton?
The first space flight to land on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The high point of a wave.
What is the crest?
The astronomical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
The first U.S. space station.
What is Skylab?
The outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto is no longer considered a planet.)
The low point of a wave.
What is a trough?
The type of orbit allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times.
What is geostationary?
This carries a wave.
What is the wave medium?