Human Spaceflight | ||
#1 | The United States federal agency in charge of spaceflight | What is NASA? |
#2 | The space station that has been built by many nations | What is the International Space Station? |
#3 | The reusable spacecraft that have been launched into Earth's orbit since 1981 | What is the space shuttle? |
#4 | The first astronaut on the moon | Who is Neil Armstrong? |
#5 | The U.S. space program that landed astronauts on the moon | What is Apollo? |
Earth in Space | ||
#1 | The spinning of Earth around its axis | What is rotation? |
#2 | Earth does this almost exactly once around the Sun each year | What is revolve? |
#3 | The force that pulls Earth into orbit around the Sun | What is gravity? |
#4 | The shape of Earth's orbit? | What is ellipse/oval? |
#5 | It occurs when the Moon passes through Earth's shadow during a full moon | What is a lunar eclipse? |
The Moon | ||
#1 | The phases when we see the whole lighted side of the Moon | What is full? |
#2 | A round pit formed by the impact of an object | What is a crater? |
#3 | How long it takes the Moon to revolve around Earth | What is 27.3 days? |
#4 | The phase in which half the lighted side of the moon is visible | What is a quarter? |
#5 | The decreasing of the visible amount of the Moon's lighted surface after full moon | What is waning? |
The Universe 1 | ||
#1 | Most of these rocky bodies are located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter | What are asteroids? |
#2 | The part of a meteor that doesn't burn up in the atmosphere and strikes Earth's surface | What is a meteorite? |
#3 | An Italian astronomer who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons | Who is Galileo? |
#4 | The combining of nuclei that gives the Sun its energy | What is nuclear fusion? |
#5 | The top layer of the Sun's atmosphere | What is the corona? |
The Universe 2 | ||
#1 | A tool used to separate starlight into its colors | What is a spectroscope? |
#2 | A cloud of gas an ddust in which a star forms | What is a nebula? |
#3 | The actual brightness of a star | What is absolute magnitude? |
#4 | The galaxy to which our solar system belongs | What is Milky Way? |
#5 | The theory that says the universe began from a small area in space and has been expanding ever since | What is the Big Bang Theory? |
Final Question | |
The apparent change in wavelength of radiation that lets astronomers know that all stellar bodies are currently moving away from Earth | What is red shift? |