Introduction to Flight
This force pulls an aircraft toward the Earth.
What is gravity?
This part of the airplane provides most of the lift.
What are the wings?
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere were most weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
This force pushes a rocket upward as gases are expelled downward.
What is thrust?
These objects are launched into orbit to collect information or provide services like communication and GPS.
What are satellites?
Name the four forces of flight acting on an aircraft in straight-and-level flight.
What are lift, weight, thrust, and drag?
This aircraft control surface, located on the trailing edge of the wing, helps control roll.
What are the ailerons?
This weather condition occurs when clouds are close to the ground, reducing visibility.
What is fog?
This scientist developed the three laws of motion that explain how rockets work.
Who is Issac Newton?
This type of spacecraft is designed to carry humans into space and back.
What is a manned spacecraft?
These are the two main parts of an airplane that provide lift and control direction.
What are the wings and the tail?
This type of aircraft engine uses a propeller to create thrust.
What is a propeller or piston engine?
This instrument measures air pressure?
What is a barometer?
This is the term for the combination of fuel and oxidizer used in a rocket.
What is propellant?
This major spacecraft system provides electrical power, often using large panels that convert sunlight into energy.
What are solar panels
According to Bernoulli's principle, lift is created because air moving faster over the wing has this compared to slower air below.
What is lower pressure?
This control surface, located on the vertical stabilizer, controls the aircraft's yaw.
What is the rudder?
As altitude increases, air pressure and air density generally do this.
What is decrease?
This law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This type of spacecraft us sent to explore planets, moons, or other objects without carrying humans.
What is a space probe?
This law of motion explains how an aircraft generates lift by pushing air downward, resulting in an equal and opposite reaction upward.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
This aircraft control surface, located on the horizontal stabilizer, controls pitch by moving the nose up or down.
What is the elevator?
This type of cloud is tall, towering, and often associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and turbulence.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
This type of rocket uses separate liquid fuel and oxidizer that mix and burn in a combustion chamber.
What is a liquid-fueled rocket?
This spacecraft system controls the direction and orientation of a spacecraft in space.
What is the guidance and control system?