Vocabulary
It does 3 main jobs: first, it pulls air in; second, it compresses it and adds fuel; and finally, it creates a spark.
What is a jet engine?
It's the part of an aircraft that's responsible for creating lift.
What is a wing?
The first characteristic of air states that air takes up ___________.
What is space?
4 letters, starts with L, one of the forces of flight.
What is lift?
It's 2 of the biggest negatives (cons) about flying.
What are pollution, accidents, damage to habitats, expensive, etc.?
It's the classification of bats.
What is a mammal?
It's the part of an aircraft that people sit inside.
What is the fuselage?
It's the number of characteristics of air we talked about in class.
What is 7?
7 letters, starts with A, controls roll.
What is aileron?
This word that starts with 'a' means something is shaped in a way that makes it flow through air easier.
What is aerodynamic?
This Principle says that slower moving air will exert more pressure than faster moving air.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
This 'A' word is used to describe the shape of the wing.
What is airfoil?
This gas makes up the majority (about 78%) of gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
6 letters, starts with H, describes bird bones.
What is hollow?
It's what happens to an airplane when the elevator is facing down.
What is it falls to the ground?
They are the 4 forces of flight.
What are thrust, drag, lift, and gravity (weight)?
This part of the aircraft controls yaw.
What is the rudder?
It's one of two things that happens to air when it is heated.
What is it rises or spreads out?
6 letters, starts with T, one of the 4 forces acting on flight.
What is thrust?
It's the Boeing model that has 4 engines.
What is a 747?
They are the 3 types of movement an aircraft can do.
What are pitch, roll, and yaw?
This part of the aircraft controls pitch.
What is the elevator?
What is compression or compressibility?
9 letters, starts with B, the person who discovered the slow moving air has more pressure than fast moving air.
Who is Bernoulli?
It's the part of the airplane that looks like an aileron, but is closer to the fuselage, and is used to slow the plane down.
What are flaps?