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Space Exploration- Study Guide
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(Pages 369-468 in your text)
Concepts/Big Ideas:
1. geocentric and heliocentric models
2. Summer and winter solstice
3. Equinoxes
4. The first astronomers tools, and their functions
5. What are AU’s and light years?
6. Know about the different types of stars and other solar bodies (planets in our solar system)
7. What is the protoplanet hypothesis?
8. What are azimuth, zenith and altitude measurements, and how to do calculate them?
9. Name and order the planets in our solar system.
10. Life and death of massive and sun-like stars
11. Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites
12.Know about first rockets and satellites.
13.What are the parts of a rocket?
14.What are the three main types of space crafts and what are they used for?
15.List hazards or living in space-both environmental and Psychological.
16.How can microgravity damage humans?
17.Why is the space suit so important?
18.What are the five life support systems in a space station?
19.What is a satellite and what can they be used for?
20. Compare the refracting and reflecting telescope.
21. Understand the Hubble Space Telescope and what it is doing.
22. What is the electromagnetic spectrum and what are examples.
23.What are radio telescopes and what are there advantages and disadvantages when
compared to optical telescopes?
24.How does interferometry work?
25.What is the purpose of a space probe?
26.How do we use triangulation and parallax to determine distance?
27.What is a spectrometer?
28.Explain the Doppler Effect and give examples.
29.Name the dangers of space exploration.
30.What is space junk and how does it affect space exploration?
31.Be able to name, explain and date 3-5 Canadian contributions to space exploration
32.Be able to explain why there are political, ethical or environmental issues surrounding
space exploration and differentiate each issue.