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Kuegel Space Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Electromagnetic Radiation | given off by stars at different wavelengths of "light" that make up a spectrum |
| Light | travels as a transverse wave at 300,000 km/s |
| wavelength | distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next wave |
| frequency | the number of wave crests that pass over a certain point over time |
| Amplitude | the height of a wave |
| crest | highest point of a wave |
| trough | lowest point of a wave |
| ROYGBIV | the order of colored light in the spectrum red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet |
| Black | the absence of visible light |
| white | all colors of visible light together |
| speed | =distance divided by time |
| light year | the distance light will travel in one year |
| 1 light year | 9.46 trillion km/year |
| optical telescope | telescope that uses visible light to produce magnified images of objects |
| refracting telescope | first made by Galileo use convex lenses to bend light and magnifiy objects |
| reflecting telescope | use concave mirrors to reflect light from an object to a focal point |
| Hubble Space telescope | launched in 1990 placed in Earth's high orbit where it is above the atmosphere to reduce interference and distortion |
| Radio telescopes | use radio waves to map the universe, also used to search for signs of intelligent life in space SETI |
| double concave lens | object appear smaller |
| double convex lens | object appear larger |
| flat mirror | reflect object but in reverse |
| concave mirror | reflect object but upside down |
| convex mirror | reflect object but appears wider |
| Force | any action that has the ability to change motion |
| Newton or pounds | unit of measure for force |
| unbalanced force | needed to move or stop an object |
| velocity | is speed in a given direction or speed = distance divided by time with a direction |
| acceleration | change in speed over time or final speed - intitial speed divided by time |
| Law of Inertia | Newton's first law that states object in motion stay in motion or at rest stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force |
| inertia | a property of matter to stay in motion or at rest IT IS NOT A TYPE OF FORCE |
| Law of Acceleration | an accelerated mass creates a force F = m.a (force equals mass times acceleration) |
| newton (N) | =kg. m/s(squared) |
| Law of Action/Reaction | for every action (force) there is an equal action in the opposite direction |
| graph showing constant speed | a straight line sloping upward |
| graph showing a constant speed then stopping then returning to the same constant speed | a straight line sloping upward with a flat section in the middle |
| graph showing acceleration | a line with a curve sloping upward |
| graph shwoing deceleration | a line with a curve sloping downward |
| solid fueled rocket | invented by the Chinese (fireworks) difficult to control |
| liquid fueled rocket | invented by Dr. Robert Goddard in 1926 |
| rocketry | based on Newton's 3rd law |
| Rocket of WWII | German V-2 |
| Apollo moon mission rocket | USA Saturn V |
| First moon landing | USA 1969 Apollo 11 |
| Satellite | an object that orbits around another object |
| natural satellites | Moon around the Earth, Earth and other planets around the Sun |
| Artificial satellites | instruments that orbit around an object in space to collect images and data |
| Sputnik I | first satellite to orbit Earth (Russia 1957) |
| "Falling around Earth" | Satellites maintain Earth orbit as a result of gravity and inertia counteracting each other |
| Space Probes | satellites with instruments that travel away from Earth, some orbit distant objects and others land on the objects' surface |
| Mars space probes | Viking I & II (1974) Spirit & Opportunity were rovers (land on surface of Mars 2004) |
| Venus space probes | Venera program (Russian 1960s- 1970s) |
| All outer planet space probes | Voyager I & II |
| Jupiter space probe | Galileo |
| Saturn and Titan space probe | Cassini - Huygens |
| Pluto space probe | New Horizons launched in 2006 estimated to arrive near Pluto 2015 |
| Space Shuttle program | reusable Earth orbiting spacecraft built by NASA to carry Astronauts into orbit |
| Columbia | first space shuttle launched in 1981, broke apart during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere 16 minutes before landing February 2006 |
| Challenger | space shuttle that blew apart 73 seconds after launch (January 1986) |
| Discovery | a space shuttle |
| Atlantis | a space shuttle |
| Endeavor | a space shuttle |
| End of space shuttle program | 2011 the program ended to repair the shuttles and prepare them to go to the Moon |
| What is the order of EM spectrum radiation from shortest to longest wavelength? | Gamma rays, X-rays, Ultraviolet radiation, Visible light, Infared radiation, Microwaves, Radio waves |
| Curiosity | Mars space probe included a rover launched in 2012 |
| ISS | International Space Station, 16 countries worked together to launch with USA and Russia as main countries, has 7 crew members who stay betweeen 3 - 6 months |
| Mir | Russia's 7th space station, only designed to last 5 years |
| Skylab | US only attempt to build a space station, it's purpose was to study the effects of living and working in space, crashed to Earth in 1979 |
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