Grade 6 Unit 8-2 Test-Investigating the Solar System

Question 1

Integrated Space Exploration Strategy include early test and demonstration flights between

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Earth and Moon

Question 2

When an object has mass, it has the ability to bend _________.

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Space

Question 3

Black holes do not just bending space, they also warp?

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Time

Question 4

In late 2015, these two companies launched and successfully landed rockets.

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Blue Origin, Space X

Question 5

The ___ is being created so Astronauts can communicate as they travel through the solar system

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NASA deep space Communication System

Question 6

This program gave us 30 years of outstanding achievement in space.

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Space Shuttle

Question 7

He became the first human in space and the first one to orbit the Earth

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Yuri Gagarin

Question 8

The size of the pull (force) depends on the ___ of the object and the ____ between objects.

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mass/distance

Question 9

This program allowed us to investigate the surface of Mars.

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Space Rover

Question 10

The first space station in space was

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Salyut

Question 11

These Missions were designed to explore the outer planets

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Voyager

Question 12

The moon revolves around the Earth because of the continuous pull of _____________.

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gravity

Question 13

This space endeavour gives Astronauts a place to live and work in space 365 days a year.

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International Space Station

Question 14

First launch in 1981 & its last in 2011. A total of 135 launches before its fleet was retired.

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Space Shuttle

Question 15

__________developed three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.

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Isaac Newton

Question 16

By visiting a captured asteroid in lunar orbit astronauts will learn how to do

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long term space operations in a deep space environment.

Question 17

Gravitational force is proportional to mass & inversely proportional to distance between them.

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Newton’s law of universal gravitation

Question 18

The following will be replacing the Space Shuttle

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Deep Space Vehicle- ORION, Launch system: SLS

Question 19

The most recent advancements in Space travel have come in the form of ___________ of the industry.

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privatization

Question 20

This was built in 1984 and took the cooperative work of many countries to complete

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Space Station

Question 21

Traveling to _______ is our ultimate goal.

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Mars

Question 22

Scientist that stated the planets orbited the Sun in ellipses

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Johannes Kepler

Question 23

In 1944 the ________ became the first man-made object to reach outer space.

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V-2 rocket

Question 24

1957 Sputnik 1, 1958 Explorer 1 & 1965 Mariner 4. Gave us our 1st view of Earth from Space.

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Space Probe

Question 25

This scientist described how space itself has a physical component to it, and warps, like a fabric.

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Albert Einstein

Question 26

Aerospace engineer & space architect known as the “Father of Rocket Science”.

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Warner Von Braun

Question 27

Every object in the universe has a mass that exerts a __________ on every other mass.

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Pull (force)

Question 28

The Sun’s gravitational pull keeps the Earth orbiting the

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Sun

Question 29

This space vehicle facilitated the creation of the first engine that has launched us into space

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Rocket

Question 30

A new Internet system is being developed that will give each planet its own ____________ name.

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domain

Question 31

He became the first human to step on the moon.

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Neil Armstrong

Question 32

Because of attraction of the planet to the moon, the moon’s straight-line fall is pulled into a

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ellipse

Question 33

Explain motions we observe on Earth & of planets, stars, galaxies, & other celestial bodies.

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Law of Universal Gravitation

Question 34

Before sending humans into deep space, we need to research and develop new _____ to protect Astronauts.

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technologies and materials

Grade 6 Unit 8-2 Test-Investigating the Solar System

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Grade 6 Unit 8-2 Test-Investigating the Solar System

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