Satellites Review

What are the types of satellites?

• artificial & homemade

• natural & organic

• natural & artificial

What do natural and artificial satellites have in common?

• the don't have anything in common

• they orbit celestial bodies

• they send information to the Earth

• the float outer space with no direction

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Which planet in our Solar System has the most number of moons?

• Earth

• Mars

• Saturn

• Jupiter

Which 2 planets in our Solar System don't have any natural satellites?

• Jupiter & Pluto

• Neptune & Mars

• Mercury & Venus

• Earth & Saturn

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Factors that affect the gravitational force acting on a planet or satellite

• only mass

• only distance

• gravity & mass

• mass & distance

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What does GPS stand for?

• Global Positioning System
• Global Positioning Satellites
• Global Positioning Software
• Global Phone System

The GPS satellites emit navigation signals

• Only when needed
• Only when orbiting the USA
• 24 hours a day
• When you turn on a GPS system

How do satellites synchronize communications

• atomic clocks
• they don't 
• GPS station
• with their software

The Geometric Principle to locate an item using radius of circles

• Triangulation
• Tangent
• Using a compass
• I don't know but can I still get the points? :D

Early satellites were placed in an orbit a few hundred kilometers above the Earth's surface called a(n)...

• geostationary orbit (GEO).
• low stationary orbit (LSO).
• high Earth orbit (HEO).
• low Earth orbit (LEO).