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• ANSWER: This a group of stars held
together by their own gravity.
• QUESTION: What is a galaxy?
• ANSWER: This is a group of stars
that forms a pattern in the sky.
• QUESTION: What is a constellation?
• ANSWER: This star is known as the
North Star.
• QUESTION: What is Polaris?
• ANSWER: This causes constellations
to rise and set in the sky.
• QUESTION: What is the Earth’s
rotation?
• ANSWER: This is the correct
arrangement of the universe from
smallest to largest.
• QUESTION: What is Earth, solar
system, galaxy, and universe?
• ANSWER: This type of telescope
uses mirrors to gather light.
• QUESTION: What is a reflecting
telescope?
• ANSWER: This part of a radio
telescope gathers radiation.
• QUESTION: What is the dish?
• ANSWER: This is the advantage
that the Hubble Space Telescope has
over all ground-based telescopes.
• QUESTION: What is it is not
affected by the Earth’s atmosphere?
• ANSWER: This is the type of wave
that reflecting and refracting
telescopes gather.
• QUESTION: What is visible light?
• ANSWER: The name and type of the
largest telescope observatory in the
world.
• QUESTION: What is Arecibo and
radio?
• ANSWER: This is made up of all the
different forms of electromagnetic
radiation.
• QUESTION: What is the
electromagnetic spectrum?
• ANSWER: This type of wave has the
longest wavelength.
• QUESTION: What are radio waves?
• ANSWER: This is the difference
between UV and infrared radiation.
• QUESTION: What is wavelength?
• ANSWER: This is the device that
separates the visible light spectrum.
• QUESTION: What is a spectroscope
or a prism?
• ANSWER: This is the correct order
of colors in the visible light spectrum
from the shortest to the longest
wavelength.
• QUESTION: What is violet, indigo,
blue, green, yellow, orange, and red?
• ANSWER: This is the purpose of all
spacecraft.
• QUESTION: What is to study
space?
• ANSWER: This type of spacecraft
does not travel to other planets to
gather information.
• QUESTION: What is a space
station?
• ANSWER: This is Earth’s natural
satellite.
• QUESTION: What is the moon?
• ANSWER: This is the number of
nations involved in the development
of the International Space Station.
• QUESTION: What is 17?
• ANSWER: These are the 2 types of
spacecraft that were used in the 1995
Galileo Mission.
• QUESTION: What is an orbiter and
a probe?
• ANSWER: These are the 2 reasons
why telescopes are built on mountain
tops and in rural areas.
• QUESTION: What is to avoid city
lights and atmospheric interference?
• ANSWER: Classify this spacecraft.
• QUESTION: What is a probe?
• ANSWER: This is the star that is
closest to Earth.
• QUESTION: What is the Sun?
• ANSWER: This is the unit of
measurement that light travels in one
year.
• QUESTION: What is a light year?
• ANSWER: These celestial bodies have
been reached by lander spacecraft.
• QUESTION: What are the moon, Mars,
and Venus?
• ANSWER:
The names and type(s) of the 2 rocks
scientists found on the moon.
• QUESTION:
What is basalt (igneous) and breccia
(sedimentary)?
• ANSWER:
The number of kilometers in a light year.
• QUESTION:
What is 9.5 trillion kilometers?
• ANSWER:
The number of times the Mars
Pathfinder lander bounced on the
Martian surface before coming to a stop.
• QUESTION:
What is 16?
• ANSWER:
The number of miles in a light year.
• QUESTION:
What is 6 trillion miles?