Post Test - Aerospace
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | 1981, first reusable space shuttle launched into space.
🗑
|
||||
| Orville Wright | Made the world's first powered flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
🗑
|
||||
| Which forces allow an airplane to fly? | thrust and lift
🗑
|
||||
| Charles Lindbergh | 1927, piloted the Spirit of St. Louis in the first trans-Atlantic flight.
🗑
|
||||
| Which forces try to keep an airplane from flying? | gravity and drag
🗑
|
||||
| Tools on the tail and wings used to control an aircraft in flight are called? | rudders and flaps
🗑
|
||||
| Newton's third law of motion | Statements regarding the physics governing motin, which can be used to provide an explanation of rocket flight.
🗑
|
||||
| Center of pressure | the point where the air pressure on both ends of a rocket body is equal
🗑
|
||||
| Drag | drag increases as speed increases, rocket with low drag will fly further, reducing frontal surface area minimizes drag
🗑
|
||||
| Robert Goddard | 1926, the American that launched the world's first successful liquid-propellant rocket
🗑
|
||||
| Flyer | First powered airplane flown by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
🗑
|
||||
| Amelia Earhart | The most famous woman pilot of her time. First woman to make a transatlantic flight.
🗑
|
||||
| Bernoulli's Principle | Discovered by Daniel Bernoulli, a Swiss Mathematician in the 1700's. States that when fluids, such as air or water, move fast, they produce low pressure; when they move slow, they produce high pressure.
🗑
|
||||
| Airfoil | The shape of an airplane's wing over which air flows to achieve lift.
🗑
|
||||
| Thrust | Force that moves an airplane forward through the air, usually provided by the engine.
🗑
|
||||
| Sputnik | The first Earth-orbiting satellite in 1957.
🗑
|
||||
| Yuri Gagarin | Russian cosmonaut, who in 1961 was the first human in space.
🗑
|
||||
| Neil Armstrong | First person to set foot on the moon in 1969.
🗑
|
||||
| Propellant | A combination of chemicals used in rocket engines.
🗑
|
||||
| Center of Gravity | The point where a rocket is balanced horizontally.
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
SCullum
Popular Miscellaneous sets