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6th Grade Ch 5
Ch 5 Test
Question | Answer |
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1. The planet with wind speeds of over 1,200 mph: | Neptune |
2. The largest planet in the solar system: | Jupiter |
3. Jupiter’s moon: | Ganymede |
4. The planet best known for its rings: | Saturn |
5. The planet with the Great Red Spot: | Jupiter |
6. The planet closest to the sun: | Mercury |
7. The “red planet”: | Mars |
8. The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue: | Neptune |
9. The planet often called the morning star: | Venus |
10. The planet that is tipped on its side: | Uranus |
11. Who was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens? | Galileo |
12. Who developed the reflecting telescope? | Newton |
13. Who was the first human to set foot on the moon? | Neil Armstrong |
14. Who was America’s first person in space? | Alan Shepard |
15. Who was the astronautical engineer who helped make the USA the leader in space exploration? | Werner Von Braun |
16. Who discovered that white light is made up of many colors? | Newton |
17. Who is known as the “Father of Modern Rocketry”? | Robert Goddard |
18. Who discovered the planet Uranus? | Herschels |
19. Who was the first man to travel in space? | Yuri Gagarin |
20. Who was the first American to orbit the earth? | John Glenn |
21. The electromagnetic _____________________ consist of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field. | waves |
22. A ___________________ is any object that orbits a larger object. | satellite |
23. A ___________________ is an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown. | space probe |
24. Light travels at ___________________ miles per second. | 186,000 |
25. The term ___________________ describes how fast a wave oscillates. | frequency |
26. ___________________ is the turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle. | reflection |
27. Jupiter is one of the (inner/outer) planets. | outer |
28. Mars is one of the (inner/outer) planets. | inner |
29. Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern is called ______________. | oscillation |
30. Meteorologists would use info from a ___________________ satellite to learn of a coming hurricane. | weather |
31. A ___________________ satellite would relay a phone call from England to Australia. | communications |
32. People who journey into outer space are called ___________________. | astronauts |
33. ___________________ are rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves. | pulsars |
34. A ___________________ is a device that splits light into a spectrum for analysis. | spectroscope |
35. The ___________________ is a device used to make distant objects appear clearer and closer. | telescope |
36. What was the first artificial object ever put into space? | Sputnik |
37. What Russian space station was designed for modules to be added? | Mir |
38. What was the first spacecraft designed to be reused? | Space shuttle |
39. What was the first space flight to land on the moon? | Apollo 11 |
40. What was the first US space station? | Skylab |
41. What was the first US satellite? | Explorer 1 |
42. What space station is being developed by a group of over 15 nations? | International Space Station |
43. What was placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens? | Hubble Space Telescope |
44. The movement of energy from one place to another is called a(n) _______________________. | Wave |
45. A single rise or depression in a wave is called a(n) ___________________. | pulse |
46. The high point of a wave is called the ___________________. | crest |
47. The low point of a wave is called the ___________________. | trough |
48. Whatever carries a wave is called the ___________________. | medium |
49. The orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times is the ____ orbit. | geostationary |