Which property of light does make it possible for us to see the Moon?
Reflection
Which telescope is suitable for observing faintly luminous and very distant objects?
Reflecting telescope
What are magnifying glasses made up of and why?
Convex lenses, to form virtual and enlarged images.
What is the function of the eyepiece lens in a light refracting telescope?
To magnify images.
Which part of the eye does serve as an image receptor?
The retina
What are the 2 main categories of spacecraft?
Crewed and uncrewed.
What are the characteristics of an image formed by plane mirror?
Virtual, upright and the same size as the object.
Which event occurs when Earth rotates on its tilted axis from the line perpendicular to its orbit?
Seasons
Name types of telescopes.
Refracting, Reflecting and Catadioptric telescopes.
Why does white light split into 7 colors as it passes through a prism?
The 7 colors in white light have different wavelengths.
It is a spacecraft to support a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time that lacks propulsion or landing systems.
Space Station
What THEOS satellite used for?
Earth observation