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Grade 6 Space Exploration
Telescopes that bend light to make objects seem larger are                      .
  1. refracting telescopes
  2. reflecting telescopes
  3. radio telescopes
  4. spectroscopes
Grade 9 Space Exploration
The first person to use a telescope for astronomy was                .
  1. Newton
  2. Galileo
  3. Copernicus
  4. Kepler
Grade 8 Space Exploration
A building containing one or more telescopes is referred to as a/an                  .
  1. astrobuilding
  2. observatory
  3. observation house
  4. star deck
Grade 5 Space Exploration
How have models of the solar system become better over the years?
  1. People have guessed what the solar system looks like.
  2. Technology has allowed people to study the solar system better than before.
  3. The models have not improved.
Grade 3 Space Exploration
This tool makes it possible to see things in space more clearly.
  1. microscope
  2. telescope
  3. thermometer
Grade 6 Space Exploration
Space probes, unlike satellites, are able to                               .
  1. gather data
  2. travel out of the solar system
  3. go into orbit
  4. be retrieved
Grade 5 Space Exploration
The Italian astronomer, Galileo, was the first scientist to do what?
  1. Discover the correct shape of the planets orbits.
  2. Discover gravity and inertia.
  3. Use a telescope to to look at objects in the sky.
  4. All of the above
Grade 9 Space Exploration
This American astronomer developed observations of galaxies into a standard method of galaxy classification.
  1. Edwin Hubble
  2. Edmond Halley
  3. Charles Messier
  4. Giovanni Cassini
Grade 4 Space Exploration
What does the word "astronautics" mean?
  1. Flying in a plane.
  2. The science of studying the stars.
  3. The science of space flight.
  4. The science of learning about galaxies.
Grade 5 Space Exploration
Who was Sally Ride?
  1. the first woman in space
  2. the first woman to orbit the Sun
  3. the first woman to leave the Milky Way
  4. the first woman to study astrophysics
Grade 11 Space Exploration
He invented calculus, laws of physical motion, and a law of universal gravitation.
  1. Johannes Kepler
  2. Tycho Brahe
  3. Nicholas Copernicus
  4. Isaac Newton
  5. Galileo Galilei
Grade 5 Space Exploration
Models of the solar system have improved over time.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 3 Space Exploration
Galileo Galilei discovered the Moon and walked on it.
  1. True
  2. False
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