Grammar/Vocabulary 3

Match the words with their definitions:

A machine that is sent into space and goes around Earth and is used for radio, video, and other electronic communication.

• satellite

• spacecraft

• debris

A piece of something that has broken off something larger

• Fragment

• Damage

• Particle

Physical harm that is done to something.

• Damage

• Collide

• Fragment

To follow the movements of something

• Orbit

• Track

• Collide

To travel in a curved path around a much larger object such as the Earth or sun

• Orbit

• Track

• Collide

The pieces of something that are left after it has been destroyed.

• Damage

• Debris

• Particle

To hit something that is moving in a different direction.

• Debris

• Cooperate

• Collide

Complete each sentence. Write the simple past or past perfect tense of the verb in parentheses.

Explorer 1, the first American space satellite, _______________________ in 1958.

                                                                                        (launch)

Complete each sentence. Write the simple past or past perfect tense of the verb in parentheses.

More than 200 people _______________ the International Space Station (ISS) since it was built.

(visit)

Complete each sentence. Write the simple past or past perfect tense of the verb in parentheses.

I _______________________ to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., last summer.

(travel)