Grade 6 Science Test 9 Chap5

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planet that is home to man

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Earth

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the largest planet in the solar system

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Jupiter

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Jupiter's moon

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Ganymede

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plant best known for its rings

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Saturn

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smallest planet

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Pluto

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planet that is tipped on its side

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Uranus

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planet often called the morning star

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Venus

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planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue

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Neptune

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red planet

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Mars

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planet closest to the sun

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Mercury

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forst human being to set foot on the moon

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Armstrong

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developed the reflecting telescope

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Newton

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America's first man in space

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Shepard

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first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens

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Galileo

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first American to orbit earth

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Glen

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the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration

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Von Braun

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discovered that white light is made up of many colors

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Newton

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known as the father of modern rocketry

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Goddard

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discovered the planet Uranus

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Herschel

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first man to travel in space

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Gagarin

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describes how fast a wave oscillates

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frequency

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light travels

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186,000 miles per second

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an unmanned spacecraft launched to explore the unknown

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space probe

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any object that orbits a larger object

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satellite

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consist of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field

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electromagnetic waves

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turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle

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reflection

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device used to make objects appear closer and closer

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telescope

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a device that splits light into a spectrum for analysis

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spectroscope

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rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves

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pulsars

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would relay a phone call from England to Australia

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communications satellite

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gives important weather information

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weather satellite

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people who journey into outer space

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astronauts

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back and forth motion that follows the same pattern

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oscillation

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Mars is one of the

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inner planets

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Jupiter is one of the

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outer planets

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first artificial object ever put into space

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Sputnik 1

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older Russian space station that was used until 2001

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Mir

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first spacecraft designed to be reused

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space shuttle

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first space flight to land on the moon

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Apollo 11

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first U.S. space station

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Skylab

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first U.S. satellite

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Explorer 1

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space station being developed by a group of 16 nations

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International Space Station

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placed into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens

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Hubble Space Telescope

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movement of energy from one place to another

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wave

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single rise or depression in a wave is

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pulse

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high point of a wave

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crest

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low point of a wave is

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trough

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whatefer carries a wave is

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wave medium

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orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot

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