Space Exploration Warm Up

Jupiter and Saturn are known as the ____________.

• big planets

• gas giants

• small planets

• rocky planets

___________ is the 3rd planet from the sun.

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Saturn

The sun is a star.

• true

• false

Ethics determines if something is good or bad.

• true

• false

In the Space Race, the US tried to beat _____________ to be the first in space.

• China

• Florida

• Australia

• Russia

The name of the space station in Houston, Texas with the large pool is called ____________.

• Henry Space Center

• Johnson Space Center

• Jackson Space Center

• Williams Space Center

The Neutral Buoyancy Lab simulates ____________ in the pool for training astronauts.

• flying

• walking on the ground

• microgravity

• the ocean

The following animals have been into space:

• spider

• monkey

• dog

• all of the above

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a ____________.

• storm

• bubble

• cloud

• river

Choose the correct order of the planets:

• Mars, Earth, Mercury, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

• Venus, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn

• Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Jupiter

Tags

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