Vocab Work: Week 4 - Life On Earth - and Beyond!

What is the definition for the word, astrobiologist?

• Scientists who study life in the universe.

• Scientists who study life in the ocean.

• Scientists who study life in the Artic.

• Scientists who study aliens.

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What is the definition for a microbe?

• The smallest living things.

• A device to see the smallest living things.

• A large creature living in space.

• A large spacecraft designed for research in outer space.

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What is the definition of a colony?

• a group of animals living in one space

• a lonely animal left to fend for itself

• An army or militant group.

• A creature living in space.

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A sensor is _________.

• Devices used to detect change in light, moisture, or other physical conditions.

• an alarm to alert of extraterrestrial life forms.

• an backup camera on a car.

• a gas chamber used on space crafts.

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What is radiation?

• dangerous energy rays that cannot be seen.

• A form of cancer.

• an electric scale used for measuring mass.

• A space vehicle used for roaming other planets.

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A rover is _____.

• A race car used in Nascar.

• A vehicle used to explore a planet's surface.

• a drill that drives into a planet's core.

• a type of boat used by the military.

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Choose the word or word group that has about the same meaning as the underlined word.

An astrobiologist helped me create my science project about Planet Z.

• an astronaut studying space travel

• an engineer studying rocket science

• a chemist studying space particles

• a scientist studying life in the universe

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Choose the answer that has about the same meaning as the underlined word.

I used to a microscope to study many different microbes.

• tiny living things

• cracks in rocks

• a starfish's habitat

• the stars

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Choose the answer that has about the same meaning as the underlined word.

Rovers easily went across Mars' bumpy and rocky surface.

• cargo planes

• mechanical body parts

• research stations

• vehicles controlled remotely

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The sensors on the space vehicle beeped loudly as they came across moisture on the surface of the planet.

• light bulbs

• detecting devices

• hammers and chisels

• design procedures

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