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planet characteristics
planet characteristics
Space Travel
Space Travel
Miscellaneous
100
used to determine the length of day.
What is rotation?
100
The amount of time it takes a planet to orbit its star.
What is revolution?
100
the effect of microgravity on muscles.
What is muscle atrophy?
100
Can astronauts take enough food and water and air into space with them for a long term trip?
What is No
100
amount of oxygen in our atmosphere.
What is 21%
200
Oxygen, Nitrogen, and carbon dioxide
What are gases in our atmosphere?
200
the longest rotation rate we'd look for in a planet?
What is 4 times Earth's day?
200
gases that would be included in the air in the space shuttle.
What is oxygen, and Nitrogen?
200
type of food an astronaut would take.
What is nutritious and non perishable?
200
0C
What is the freezing point of water?
300
.4 times Earth's
What is the minimum mass of a planet we look for for life?
300
It protects us on earth from radiation in from our star.
What is the magnetic field?
300
How EE is made on the ISS.
What is using solar panels to convert sunlight into EE?
300
How astronauts get more oxygen.
What is removed from CO2 or water?
300
2 Factors that affect the temperature of a planet?
What is rotation rate, atmosphere, proximity to the star.....?
400
1.5
What is the maximum amount of gravity we'd want?
400
the goldilocks conditions.
What is suitable temperature range, appropriate atmosphere and liquid water?
400
The effect of microgravity on the Circulatory System?
What is red blood cell deformation, and fluid shift?
400
Fatal conditions that can occur due to being exposed to the vacuum of space.
What is ANSWERS MAY VARY?
400
An extremeophile.
What is an organism that can live in conditions we once thought not possible?
500
The major essential elements to life?
What is sulfur, phosphorous, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen?
500
If a planet has too little of this, then the lighter gases may escape.
What is mass?
500
How astronauts get water in space?
What is from the liquid hydrogen and oxygen in the fuels cells, recycling it, dehumidifiers...?
500
The amount of water an astronaut on the ISS uses in a day.
What is 3 gallons?
500
THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS EQUATION
What is 6H2O + 6CO2 + RE -> C6H12O6 + 6O2