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IELTS space vocab

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does NASA stand for?

a)

National Airspace Space Association

b)

National Americian Space Agency

c)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

d)

National Aerospace and Space Association

2.

What is the instrument used to look far into space?

a)

telescope

b)

periscope

c)

mircoscope

d)

starscope

3.

Who was the first man on the moon?

a)

Buzz Lightyear

b)

Yuri Gagarin

c)

Buzz Aldrin

d)

Neil Armstrong

4.

What was the first space flight to successfully land on the moon?

a)

Apollo 10

b)

Apollo 9

c)

Apollo 8

d)

Apollo 11

5.

Who was the first man in space?

a)

Yuri Gagarin

b)

Buzz Aldrin

c)

Neil Armstrong

d)

Superman

6.

What is the name of the telescope which has been in orbit since 1990?

a)

The Space Bubble Telescope

b)

The Hubble Space Telescope

c)

The Bubble Space Telescope

d)

The Space Hubble Telescope

7.

What was the first manned spacecraft to reach the moon, orbit it and return?

a)

Apollo 6

b)

Apollo 7

c)

Apollo 8

d)

Apollo 9

8.

What was the date of the first man in space?

a)

April 1961

b)

January 1962

c)

December 1961

d)

May 1962

9.

What nationality was Yuri Gagarin?

a)

German

b)

Ukrainian

c)

Russian

d)

Polish

10.

What was the date of the first moon landing?

a)

December 1968

b)

February 1969

c)

October 1968

d)

July 1969

11.

What were Neil Armstrong's famous first words on the moon landing?

a)

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

b)

"Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are."

c)

"Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here."

d)

"Beautiful view."

12.

What was the name of the first monkey who went into space? (He died during the flight!) :(

a)

Albert

b)

Albert II

c)

Albert III

d)

Albert IV

13.

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) took a photo of what?

a)

Life on Mars

b)

A black hole

c)

The Andromeda Universe

d)

The infant universe

14.

What is the name of our universe?

a)

The Milky Way

b)

The Andromeda Galaxy

c)

The Multiverse

d)

The Mars Bar

15.

What is the name of the galaxy next to ours?

a)

The expansion

b)

The multiverse

c)

The Milky Way

d)

The Andromeda Galaxy

16.

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are set to collide in the future. But when?

a)

60 million years

b)

4.5 billion years

c)

Soon.......Run!

d)

200 million years

17.

What is the solar system?

a)

The Sun orbiting the planets

b)

The moons orbiting their planets

c)

The planets and the Sun

d)

The stars in the sky

18.

Which word means to go around another object?

a)

orbit

b)

rotate

c)

spin

d)

swerve

19.

What is a black hole?

a)

The collapse of a universe

b)

The birth of a new star

c)

The collapse of a planet

d)

The collapse of a star

20.

What is the word for when a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of an explosion.

a)

Multinova

b)

Terenova

c)

Supernova

d)

Black Hole

21.

How old do scientists believe the universe is?

a)

60 million years

b)

10 million years

c)

20 billion years

d)

13.7 billion years