The Night Sky

Earth and the rest of the solar system are located in the galaxy ___________________.

• Milky Way
• star
• Andromeda

A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial object.

• rover
• the International Space Station
• Observetory

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

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Something that orbits around another object

• rocket
• satellite
• space shuttle

What is designed and built to transport people and cargo between Earth and space?

• space rocket
• space shuttle
• space prove

Which tool allows scientists to take pictures very distant objects such as other galaxies, stars, and planets?

• telescope
• periscope
• space shuttle

What object is launched into orbit and designed to send and receive information?

• rover
• satellite
• space shuttle

What space tool leaves a planets orbit and travels to places too dangerous for man. 

• solar probe
• space probe
• spectroscope

Earth-observing space probes are launched into orbit by NASA and space agencies around the world. 

• True
• False

SATELITES PROVIDE IMAGES  FRO MILITARY PURPOSES, REMOTE SENSING, COMMUNICATING, NAVIGATION AND???

• SPACE EXPLORATION
• PLANET EXPLORATION 
• WEATHER EXPLORATION 
• NONE OF THESE

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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A _________ IS AN UN-CREWED VEHICLE THAT CARRIES SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AND INSTRUMENTS  TO DISTANCE OBJECTS IN SPACE

• SHUTTLE ROCKET
• ROCKET
• PROBE
• PROBE ROCKET