Watercrafts
Aircrafts
Land Transpiration
Westward Exploration
Simple Machines
100
A watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
What is a submarine?
100
A lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air.
What is a hot air-balloon?
100
This type of 2 wheel transportation was invented around 1817 and relies on human power.
What is a bicycle?
100
A simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum.
What is a lever?
200
This modern water sport as we know it today is thought to have originated in Hawaii.
What is surfing?
200
This type of aircraft can take off and land vertically, hover, and fly forward, backward and laterally.
What is a helicopter?
200
A motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.
What is a snowmobile?
200
Lewis and Clark were commissioned to explore the land obtained in this purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
A small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle.
What is a kayak?
300
The only means currently capable of reaching orbit or beyond.
What is a rocket?
300
What is a Toyota Corolla?
300
The president who commissioned the Discovery Corps.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
A wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself and a shaft
What is a Pulley?
400
The lines, wires, and hardware that support and control the sails and mast.
What is the rigging?
400
The first kind of aircraft to fly (using air flow) which was invented in China around 500 BC.
What is a kite?
400
This type of transportation receives current via overhead lines or through a third rail electric system, which is then used to power traction motors that drive the wheels.
What is an electric train? (a trolley is also an acceptable answer).
400
What is a screw?
500
An American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
The first airplane capable of sustained flight was tested by the Wright brothers at this location.
What is Kitty Hawk?
500
The area labeled as 1 in the above diagram is called this.
What the tractor unit?
500
Sacagawea came from this tribe.
What is Shoshone?