Age of Discovery
What is Ferdinand Magellan most known for?
Planning the first sailing trip around the world
What did Jacques Cousteau invent to help divers move around?
aqualung / scuba
What was the first man-made object (satellite) sent into space?
Sputnik
Why is a globe the best map of a planet?
It is the same shape as Earth and other planets
Who participated in the space race?
US and USSR/Russia
What is Christopher Columbus most known for?
Discovering the Americas (so other Europeans knew)
What is the deepest place on Earth?
Mariana Trench
What was the US space station called?
Skylab
Which US spaceships held only 1 person?
Mercury
Which US spaceships held 3 people?
Apollo
What is Vasco da Gama most known for?
First European to sail around Africa to India/Asia
What have underwater explorers found?
What the ocean floor looks like, shipwrecks, sunken cities
What was the Soviet/Russian space station called?
Mir
Which US spaceships held 5-7 people?
Space Shuttle
What are American space travelers called?
astronauts
What is Prince Henry most known for?
His school for Portuguese sailors to get around Africa
What is a bathysphere?
The first ship to go into the deep ocean
What were Viking I and II?
Space probes that landed on Mars in 1976
Which US spaceships held 2 people?
Gemini
Which spaceship first landed on the Moon?
Apollo 11
What is Spain’s Queen Isabella most known for?
Paying for Columbus’s 4 voyages to America
What is the shallow ocean water around Earth’s large land masses?
continental shelf
What were Voyager 1 and 2?
Space probes that explored the gas giant planets (and continue beyond)
What are the 5 stages of the US space program (in order)?
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle
Who were the first 2 men to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin