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Grade 8 Space Exploration
A building containing one or more telescopes is referred to as a/an                  .
  1. astrobuilding
  2. observatory
  3. observation house
  4. star deck
Grade 8 Space Exploration
The first person to view the Moon using a telescope was
  1. Galileo.
  2. Copernicus.
  3. Newton.
  4. Armstrong.
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What country launched the world's first artificial satellite, the Sputnik?
  1. China
  2. Germany
  3. Russia
  4. United States
Grade 8 Space Exploration
To fly beyond a planet's gravitational pull, a spacecraft must reach                       .
  1. velocity
  2. orbital velocity
  3. escape velocity
  4. geostationary velocity
Grade 8 Space Exploration
Which two early astronomers were supporters of the geocentric, or Earth-centered, model of the solar system?
  1. Aristotle and Galileo
  2. Galileo and Copernicus
  3. Aristotle and Ptolemy
  4. Copernicus and Ptolemy
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What sport did the astronauts try to play on the Moon?
  1. lacrosse
  2. baseball
  3. football
  4. golf
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What was president John F. Kennedy's goal for the space program?
  1. To go to infinity and beyond.
  2. To be the first nation to land a human on the Moon.
  3. To go to the edge of our solar system.
  4. To study the effects of the Sun on Earth's atmosphere.
Grade 8 Space Exploration
An enormous exoplanet, called HD 106906 b was discovered that is 11 times the size of Jupiter. What was NOT used to discover this new planet?
  1. International Space Station
  2. Hubble Space Telescope
  3. Infrared Camera
  4. Magellan Telescope
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What are the name of the two astronauts that landed on the Moon on 1969?
  1. John Glenn and Alan Shepard
  2. Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis
  3. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.
  4. Jim Lovell and John Swigert
Grade 8 Space Exploration
Telescope in space used to observe universe using x-rays
  1. Erwin Telescope
  2. Darwin Telescope
  3. Moon Telescope
  4. Chandra Telescope
Grade 8 Space Exploration
When did the first man land on the Moon?
  1. June 20, 1969
  2. July 20, 1969
  3. June 20, 1959
  4. July 20, 1979
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What President started a project called Vanguard, which essentially began the space race?
  1. President John F. Kennedy
  2. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  3. President Barack Obama
  4. President Ronald Reagan
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What family of probes gave us our first look at Jupiter?
  1. The Mariners
  2. The Rangers
  3. The Pioneers
  4. The Vikings
Grade 8 Space Exploration
Which was the first human spaceflight program of the United States?
  1. Project Discovery
  2. Project Gemini
  3. Project Apollo
  4. Project Mercury
Grade 8 Space Exploration
What is the farthest man-made object in space?
  1. Viking 1
  2. Viking 2
  3. Voyager 1
  4. Voyager 2
Grade 8 Space Exploration
The Hubble Space Telescope is a probe.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Space Exploration
Match the following terms in the first column to their correct definitions in the second column.
__ Aberrations A. correct for minute- or hour-long mirror-shape distortions due to gravity, temperature drifts, and wind
__ Spherical aberration B. uses a curved "dish" antenna, which corresponds to the main mirror in an optical reflector, to collect and focus radio waves from space
__ Catadioptric Telescope C. first built in 1960's; optical reflector with a special heat detector at the prime focus
__ Dobsonian Telescope D. a mirror defect that blurs a star image
__ Adaptive Optics E. Imperfections in the image produced by an optical system
__ Active Optics F. a telescope with a refractor-reflector combination
__ Spectroscope G. studies incoming radiation with wavelengths beyond visible red to radio
__ Radio Telescope H. adjust flexible mirrors to correct for rapid, hundredths-of-a-second distortions due to turbulence in Earth's atmosphere
__ Interferometer I. Separates starlight into its component wavelengths fir viewing
__ Infrared astronomy J. a telescope with a Newtonian reflector on a simple mount
__ Infrared telescopes K. combines beams of light from two or more telescopes to simulate on very large aperture
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