Flight
The height or difference above a reference plane
What is altitude?
GPS stands for this
Global Positioning System
The process of converting water vapor to liquid
What is condensation?
The sixth planet from the Sun
What is Saturn?
This scientist formulated the laws of motion
Who was Isaac Newton?
The four forces of flight
What are thrust, lift, gravity, and drag?
This is an airport's "parking lot"
What is the ramp?
This element comprises 78% of the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
A clump of dust or rock orbiting the Sun
What is a meteoroid?
He made the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
The three axes of an airplane
What are the vertical, lateral, and longitudinal axes?
This flight instrument displays a rate of change in altitude
What is the vertical velocity indicator?
This is the first layer of the atmosphere where most of the Earth's weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
The distance between the Earth and the Sun has this name
What is an astronomical unit?
On this date, Civil Air Patrol was founded
December 1, 1941
As fluid velocity increases, pressure decreases
What is the Bernoulli Principle?
This type of engine processes air and fuel through a back and forth movement of its internal parts
What is a reciprocating engine?
A boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
A giant cloud of gast and dust in outer space
What is a nebula?
On this date, humans first walked on the Moon.
What is July 20, 1969?
What is the elevator?
This is the scale of an aeronautical Sectional Chart
What is 1:500,000?
The term used to describe lateral transfer of heat
What is advection?
Radiation belts around the Earth filled with charged particles
What are the Van Allen belts?
This was the U.S. manned space program that directly preceded Apollo
What is Gemini?