6th grade Unit 8 Celestial Objects, Gravity, & Space Exploration

What object creates a streak of light as it enters Earth’s atmosphere?  

• meteoroid 
• asteroid
• comet
• planet

What force keeps objects in our solar system orbiting our Sun?

• push
• gravity
• motion
• pull 

President John F Kennedy set a space exploration goal for our county to go where?  

• pluto
• sun
• moon
• mars

As a planet’s distance from the Sun increases the planet's temperature (increases or decreases).

• increases
• decreases

Unlike previous space mission the space shuttle was unique because it could be landed like an ________________________ and be reused.

• boat
• car
• airplane
• capsule

In 1972 what space mission was responsible for getting a man on the moon?  

• Challenger
• Voyager 
• Gemini
• Apollo 

What scientist use a telescope to observe the night sky and led to him being called the father of astronomy?

• Gaileo
• Einstein 
• Dr. Tyson 
• Dr. Wernher von Brauun 

How is Jupiter able to have so many moons orbiting it?

• it's orbit
• it's distance from the Sun 
• it's speed
• it's gravitational pull 

What substance so we look for on other celestial objects in the hopes that its presence may mean life is possible on this celestial objects?

• oxygen
• water
• carbon
• sunlight