Vocabulary and Science Quiz

vehicles used to explore a planet’s surface

• rovers

• radiation

• sensors

dangerous energy rays that cannot be seen.

• Evaporation

• Conduction

• Radiation

devices that detect changes in light, moisture, or other physical conditions.

• Generators

• Transmitters

• Sensors

a group of animals living in one place.

• Colony

• Herd

• Flock

A very small living thing, especially one that causes disease.

• Parasite

• Microbe

• Bacteria

scientists who study life in the universe.

• Astronomers

• Astrobiologists

• Geologists