CAP BILLY MITCHELL ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔large mass star - ✔✔will end as a neutron star
✔✔very large mass star - ✔✔will end as a black hole
✔✔how many current constellations? - ✔✔88
✔✔asteroid - ✔✔small rocky body orbitting the sun
✔✔Astronomical unit (AU) - ✔✔unit to measure distance (1 AU = 93 million miles,
distance from Earth to Sun)
✔✔comet - ✔✔small icy satellite
✔✔meteor - ✔✔small streak of light
✔✔meteoroid - ✔✔clump of dust or rock, becomes a meteor in the atmosphere of Earth
✔✔meteorite - ✔✔meteor that has hit Earth's surface
✔✔photosphere - ✔✔thing shell of the sun's outer layer
✔✔solar flares - ✔✔short lives high energy discharges from the sun
✔✔solar prominences - ✔✔larger energy discharges; can last for months
✔✔sun spots - ✔✔darker, cooler areas on the sun
✔✔when was pluto removed - ✔✔2006
, ✔✔Order planets by size - ✔✔Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars,
Mercury
✔✔Hottest planet - ✔✔Venus
✔✔Neil Armstrong - ✔✔1st Man on the moon
✔✔John Glenn - ✔✔1st American to orbit earth
✔✔Alan Shepard - ✔✔1st American in space
✔✔Roger Bacon - ✔✔increased the range of rockets
✔✔Wernher von Braun - ✔✔director of the V-2 rocket project
✔✔William Congreve - ✔✔designed rockets for military use
✔✔Jean Froissart - ✔✔improved accuracy of rockets
✔✔Robbert Goddard - ✔✔Experimented with solid and liquid propellant; father of
modern rocketry
✔✔William Hale - ✔✔developed the spin stabilization technique
✔✔Hero - ✔✔developed the 1st rocket engine
✔✔Sergei Korolev - ✔✔Father of the soviet space program
✔✔Hermann Oberth - ✔✔space pioneer, wrote book about rocket travel
✔✔Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - ✔✔proposed use of rockets for space exploration; father of
modern aeronautics
✔✔acceleration - ✔✔rate of change of velocity over time
✔✔inertia - ✔✔tendency of an object to stay at rest or motion
✔✔Newton's 1st law - ✔✔law of inertia; a body at rest stays at rest
✔✔Newton's 2nd law - ✔✔F = M * A
✔✔Newton's 3rd law - ✔✔every action has an equal and opposite reaction
SET A+
✔✔large mass star - ✔✔will end as a neutron star
✔✔very large mass star - ✔✔will end as a black hole
✔✔how many current constellations? - ✔✔88
✔✔asteroid - ✔✔small rocky body orbitting the sun
✔✔Astronomical unit (AU) - ✔✔unit to measure distance (1 AU = 93 million miles,
distance from Earth to Sun)
✔✔comet - ✔✔small icy satellite
✔✔meteor - ✔✔small streak of light
✔✔meteoroid - ✔✔clump of dust or rock, becomes a meteor in the atmosphere of Earth
✔✔meteorite - ✔✔meteor that has hit Earth's surface
✔✔photosphere - ✔✔thing shell of the sun's outer layer
✔✔solar flares - ✔✔short lives high energy discharges from the sun
✔✔solar prominences - ✔✔larger energy discharges; can last for months
✔✔sun spots - ✔✔darker, cooler areas on the sun
✔✔when was pluto removed - ✔✔2006
, ✔✔Order planets by size - ✔✔Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars,
Mercury
✔✔Hottest planet - ✔✔Venus
✔✔Neil Armstrong - ✔✔1st Man on the moon
✔✔John Glenn - ✔✔1st American to orbit earth
✔✔Alan Shepard - ✔✔1st American in space
✔✔Roger Bacon - ✔✔increased the range of rockets
✔✔Wernher von Braun - ✔✔director of the V-2 rocket project
✔✔William Congreve - ✔✔designed rockets for military use
✔✔Jean Froissart - ✔✔improved accuracy of rockets
✔✔Robbert Goddard - ✔✔Experimented with solid and liquid propellant; father of
modern rocketry
✔✔William Hale - ✔✔developed the spin stabilization technique
✔✔Hero - ✔✔developed the 1st rocket engine
✔✔Sergei Korolev - ✔✔Father of the soviet space program
✔✔Hermann Oberth - ✔✔space pioneer, wrote book about rocket travel
✔✔Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - ✔✔proposed use of rockets for space exploration; father of
modern aeronautics
✔✔acceleration - ✔✔rate of change of velocity over time
✔✔inertia - ✔✔tendency of an object to stay at rest or motion
✔✔Newton's 1st law - ✔✔law of inertia; a body at rest stays at rest
✔✔Newton's 2nd law - ✔✔F = M * A
✔✔Newton's 3rd law - ✔✔every action has an equal and opposite reaction
