Space Exploration

What keeps a planet moving on its path around the sun

• gravity & inertia
• heat & pressure
• inertia & pressure
• gravity & heat

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which movement creates day/night?

• rotation
• revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

All of the outer planets--

• have many moons
• are small
• have a short orbit around the Sun
• are rocky

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are called.....?

• Jovian Planets
• Awesome Sauce Planets
• Gas Giants
• Inner Planets

What is the only planet known to contain life?

• Mars
• Earth
• Neptune
• Uranus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

If life is to exist on any planet, certain characteristics must be present. Which of the following characteristic is shared by all planets in our solar system?

• source of energy

• presence of water

• presence of plants

• oxygen rich atmosphere

Which of the following factors is of least importance in determining whether life can be sustained on a planet?

• proximity to the sun

• presence of soil which supports life.

• presence of liquid water

• presence of oxygen in the atmosphere

An artificial satellite is a spacecraft that _____________.

• completes only one orbit
• is built by humans and orbits another object in space
• travels outward into the solar system
• orbits beyond the orbit of the moon

A space probe is a spacecraft that ___________.

• completes only one orbit
• is build and launched by humans
• travels outward into the solar system
• both b and C

Has no people on it, used to gather information

• spaceprobe
• Space Shuttle
• spacecraft
• launch-pad