NASA Digital Learning Network Videoconference:
Reduced Gravity - "The Effects on the Human Body"
Post-Conference Assessment


1. What is Microgravity?


2. Reduced gravity is simulated on Earth by NASA with:

Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory - Pool
DC-9 Reduced Gravity Airplane
Drop Towers
All the above

3. Bone loss and muscle atrophy are effects of reduced gravity on the human body.
True
False

4. How does fluid shift affect astronauts?

5. Reduced gravity has no effect on the cardiovascular system.
True
False

6. List countermeasures to the effects of reduced gravity on the human body.

7. How is the skeletal system affected by reduced gravity?

Answers