Check Your Understanding Questions 8.1
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Read through section 8.1 of your text. Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What is a rover?
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2. What are two tools a rover may be equipped with?
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3. What is a robot?
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4. Identify 3 types of robots you may have used.
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5. Identify 3 parts of a rover
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6. What is a cryobot? How does it work?
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7. In what way do scientists hope to use frogbots?
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8. What is a current use for snakebots?
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9. Where did scientist get the idea for spiderbots from?
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Check Your Understanding Questions 8.2
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Read through section 8.2 in your text and complete the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What is a satellite? What are some of their uses?
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2. What was Canada’s first satellite?
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3. What does GPS stand for and how does it work?
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4. When was the ISS launched? Who was the first Canadian astronaut onboard the ISS?
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5. Why is the ISS important? Give an example of an experiment being carried out there?
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6. What is the main advantage of the Hubble Telescope?
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Check Your Understanding Questions 8.3
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Read through section 8.3 of your text and complete the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What is Dextre? What does it do?
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2. What is the Canadarm?
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3. Name two other Canadian technologies used in space or in the deep ocean.
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4. Choose one of these technologies and explain what it is and how it works.
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5. What is the Neptune project? Explain how it will work.
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Check Your Understanding Questions 8.4
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Read through section 8.4 of your text and answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. Why is space travel important to life on earth? Give an example of something being researched in
space that has an application on earth.
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2. Some people are critical of space travel. What reasons do they give? Be specific. Do you agree or
disagree with these reasons? Why?
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3. What advantage does a nuclear submarine have compared to a diesel submarine? Could this be a
disadvantage in some way? Explain.
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4. Choose any form of space or ocean technology listed in chapter 8 and draw, label and colour it in the
space below.