Vocabulary and Space Exploration Quiz

What does the word "manhandled" mean?

• reawakened

• physically mistreated

• cost

• force of movement

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is "The Right Stuff"?

• a type of spacecraft

• a university in Massachusetts

• a 1983 movie about the first seven American astronauts

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Who is John Glenn?

• one of the first seven American astronauts

• a type of spacecraft

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What does "rekindled" mean?

• cost

• reawakened

• power; ability

• a chamber astronauts must pass through

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What is a "graduate school"?

• a type of spacecraft

• a school for post-college study

• a university in Massachusetts

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What is MIT known for?

• overseeing the space program

• teaching science and engineering

• a type of spacecraft

• a space telescope

What does NASA oversee?

• the space program

• a type of spacecraft

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

What is a "space shuttle"?

• a type of spacecraft used by NASA from 1981 to 2011

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

• a type of spacecraft

• a space telescope that orbits the earth

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

What is a "spectrograph"?

• a type of spacecraft

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A