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1
A sounding rocket is an example of a probe.
False
True
2
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?
Big Bird
Kermit the Frog
John Glenn
Cookie Monster
3
Which of the following is
not
a classification of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Gas Giants
Superior Planets
Secret Entrances to Candy Land
Jovian Planets
4
What is an orbit parallel the equator and less than 400 miles/640 km high?
Polar
None of the above.
Equatorial
Geosynchronous
5
What is a presupposition a Young Earth Creationist must make?
There is no creator.
There is an intelligent designer.
Rain are clouds' tears when they're sad.
God did not write Genesis literally.
6
What says that everything revolves around the sun?
Heliocentric Theory
George's Hypothesis
Harold's Idea
Geocentric Thoery
7
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
Stars
Terrestrial Planets
Dwarf Planets
Jovian Planets
8
How old do evolutionists believe the Earth is?
A couple thousand
A couple hundred
Billions of years old
Millions of years old
9
Who used gyroscopic stability first?
US
USSR
Robert Goddard
Werner van Braun
10
What telescope is this?
Refelcting
Radio
Infared/Gamma
Refracting
11
What is discarded right before splashdown?
Service Module
LEM
Pizza
CSM
12
What is the shape of all the planets orbits?
Ellipse
Square
Ring
Circle
13
What is a simplified structure that explains a more complex idea?
Command Module
Puzzle
Service Module
Model
14
What telescopes must orbit Earth because the atmosphere blocks the source?
Refracting
Radio
Reflecting
Infared/Gamma
15
How many space missions ended in fatal accidents?
4
3
2
1
16
What is an object that naturally goes around a planet?
Planet
Asteroid
Moon
Satellite
17
What telescope is this?
Radio
Infared/Gamma
Refracting
Refelcting
18
Who did
not
walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins
Mr. Grinch
19
Who was the father of modern rocketry?
USSR
US
Robert Goddard
Werner van Braun
20
What did Robert Goddard's rockets burn?
Black powder / gun powder
More snow!
Pizza
Liquid fuel
21
What are mysterious, very bright things that are moving away from us?
Retrograde motion
Black holes
White Hole Cosmology
Quasars
22
What is the area past Neptune that has 4/5 of the dwarf planets?
Flying Objects Go Smashy Place
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper Belt
Rocky Belt
23
What is the measurement of time it takes a planet to orbit the sun?
Sceintific Term!
Tree
Snowman
Period
24
Who had a soft lunar landing with no humans first?
Robert Goddard
Werner van Braun
US
USSR
25
What was the first man-made satellite that was launched by the USSR?
Friendship 8
Pizza 5
Sputnik 1
Sock 2
26
Right Ascension is based on the vernal equinox position.
False
True
27
What is the command God gave us in Genesis 1:28?
Blessings of Jacob
Creation Mandate
Sermon on the Mount
10 Commandments
28
Who added epicycles to fix retrograde motion?
Tyko Brahe
Isaac Newton
Ptolemy
Copernicus
29
If a satellite is closer to the Earth, it must revolve ______________ than it would if it was farther away.
Crazier
Faster
Slower
More fun
30
What did the earliest rockets burn?
Liquid fuel
Happiness
Black powder / gun powder
Vegetables
31
What is data that explains things like color, shape, and size?
Descriptive Data
Watch
Clock
Measured Data
32
The sun’s apparent magnitude is -26.7. It is the brightest object we can see because it is so close.
True
False
33
What's this?
Galaxy
Super nova
Nebula
Constellation
34
What is the name of the current space station?
Do all the space stations start with "s"?
International Space Station
Skylab
Salyut
35
GPS satellites usually have polar orbits because they are geosynchronous.
False
True
36
What is the final stage of a stars death? It has lots of gravity and no light.
Super novas
White dwarves
Black holes
Neutron stars
37
A naturalist is most likely to believe ...
The world was a singularity that expanded over billions of years
The world is less than 7000 years old.
The world was created by God.
Things unseen are more valuable than things that are.
38
What might be a telescope limited by a lens bowing due to gravity?
Refracting
Reuse
Radio
Reflecting
39
The Gemini spacecraft were the first US craft to be able to dock in space.
False
True
40
What is belief and trust based on past experience?
Science
Faith
Descriptive Data
Measured Data
41
What remained in orbit while the men walked on the moon?
Yay!
CSM
Whooooooooooooo!
Snowman
42
What is a model/equation that describes relationships between variables?
Law
Measured Data
Gravity
Descriptive Data
43
Who envisions people to be multi-planetary?
Pineapple!
Elon Musk
Kiwi!
Blueberry!
44
What's this?
Hertzbrung-Russel Diagram
Constellatin
Spiral Galaxy
A picture!
45
What was the one mission to the moon that needed to recalculate do to an explosion in the fuel cell?
Apollo 11
Apollo 13
Gemini 2
Mercury 5
46
What is an assumption about how the world works that you believe to be true, but not proven?
Elsa - do you wanna build a snowman?
Come on, let's go and play!
Presupposition
Exercise will keep you warm
47
Neutron stars are much smaller than white dwarfs in diameter.
True
False
48
Who came to the US after WWII to start our space program?
USSR
Werner van Braun
US
Robert Goddard
49
Where is the asteroid belt?
Between Mars and Jupiter
Between Uranus and Neptune
In the sun
Orbiting Ceres
50
What are asteroids closest to the Earth called?
Croissant!
NEA: Near Earth Asteroids
LEM
CSM
51
What are smaller than asteroids and located outside the Earth's atmosphere?
Meters
Meteors
Meteoroids
Meteorites
52
Who scientifically explained comets so they weren't considered "mystical beings" anymore?
Mr. Snowman.
Ken
Haley
Barbie
53
What orbit takes about 24 hours to complete?
Polar
Revolution!
Geosynchronous
Equatorial
54
How far away is the sun from the Earth?
1 Ly
3 AUs
Bala!
1 AU
55
Who was the first guy to walk on the moon on camera?
Fred Jellyfish
Mark the Frisbee
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
56
What is seeking knowledge by observation and experiment?
Science
Faith
School
Theories
57
Parallax is the actual distance between Earth and the star.
True
False
58
Multiple stages of rockets are no longer used because it was too dangerous.
True
False
59
What is the distance in an orbit that is farthest from the sun?
Perihelion
Close point
Far point
Aphelion
60
Who was the first American in space?
Alan Shepherd
Taylor!!!!
John Glenn
Yuri Gargarin
61
What is the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system?
Eris
Hummea
Ceres
Makemake
62
Who was the first person to propose the heliocentric model?
Noah
Copernicus
Cory
Titus
63
There are no stars off of the main sequence of the HR diagram.
False
True
64
What was the Apollo launch rocket?
Mercury I
Venus III
Neptune IV
Saturn V
65
What is the appearance of planets slowing down, stopping, and then speeding back up again?
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Retrograde Motion
66
What are the four moons of Jupiter?
New York, Virginia, Maine, Pennsylvania
Mr. Jones, Animals, Farm, Bye-bye
Io, Callisto, Gandymede, Europa
Tree, Mountain, Lake, Flower
67
How many modern constellations are there?
24
32
96
88
68
What was the combined vehicle that landed on the moon?
Command Module
LEM / Lunar Excursion Module
Service Module
CSM
69
How do Old Earth creationists translate the word "Yom" in Genesis 1?
A poetical day
Creation
A literal day
A Hebrew word
70
The first manned American space flights were part of Project Mercury.
True
False
71
What is an icy rock that glows brightly when orbiting closer to the sun? Hint: tail always facing away from the sun
Meteroite
Asteroid
Meteoroid
Comet
72
Who developed the V2 rocket?
USSR
US
Werner van Braun
Robert Goddard
73
The sun’s absolute magnitude is 4.83. This means that it is one of the brightest stars.
False
True
74
The first space station was placed in orbit by the USSR, and it was called Salyut.
False
True
75
What's this?
Galaxy
Nebula
Constellation
Party
76
Who walked on the moon first?
US
USSR
Werner van Braun
Robert Goddard
77
Who created precise instruments and mixed the geocentric and heliocentric theories?
Mr. Snowman from the Snowy Mountains of Snowman-landia
Galileo
Tyko Brahe
Isaac Newton
78
Who invented the telescope and observed the moons of Jupiter?
Galileo
Copernicus
Brahe
Ptolemy
79
What's this?
Google Slides
Galaxy
Nebula
Powerpoint
80
What telescope is this?
Infared/Gamma
Radio
Refelcting
Refracting
81
Who was the first man in space?
John Glenn
Alan Shepherd
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gargarin
82
What is Saturn's largest moon?
Triton
Dude
Titan
Neptune
83
What says that everything revolves around the Earth?
Geocentric
Naphtali's Guess
Heliocentric
Zebulun's Epiphany
84
What is the distance in an orbit that is closest to the sun?
Sparta
Perihelion
Zenith
Aphelion
85
Anything in the solar system that is not a planet or a dwarf planet is called a __________________________.
Snowmen's Silly System of Bread (SSSB)
King Phillip Climbed Over Fredrick's Goofy Spaghetti
Small Solar System Body (SSSB)
Rock
86
For any given distance from the Earth, there is only one a satellite can orbit.
False
True
87
Which of the following is
not
a theory of Old Earth Creationism?
White Hole Cosmology
Framework Theory
Progressive Day-Age Theory
Gap Theory
88
A star with a negative magnitude is brighter than a star with a positive magnitude.
True
False
89
What is a telescope that often has to take up anchors of land because the atmosphere blocks a lot of its source?
Polar
Infared/Gamma
Refracting
Radio
90
What is the only section of the Apollo mission that returns to Earth during splashdown?
Service Module
LEM
Command Module
CSM
91
How do Young Earth creationists translate the word "Yom" in Genesis 1?
A poetical day
Creation
A literal day
A Hebrew word
92
What is a telescope that might have a limitation of dirty mirrors?
Reflecting
Radio
Infared/Gamma
Refracting
93
What is the agency closest to sending people to Mars?
Snow!
Space X
NASA
Random Countries Space Program
94
What is the way you look at and interpret the world around you?
Worldview
Presupposition
Theory
Faith
95
What is a conclusion drawn from facts that explains data and scientific concepts?
not an answer.
Hypothesis
Theory
Not one either.
96
Which of the following is
not
a function of a telescope?
Resolution
Gathering Light
Spreading Joy!
Magnification
97
Who discovered gravity and wrote laws about it?
Mr. Pencil
Ptolemy
Ms. Marker
Isaac Newton
98
What is an initial statement or guess that attempts to answer a scientific problem?
Science
School
Hypothesis
Theory
99
What is data that is obtained through rulers, scales, and watches?
Desciptive Data
Measured Data
Theory
Hypothesis
100
Who orbited the moon first?
Werner van Braun
Robert Goddard
USSR
US
