Rocketry and Aviation, Day 1

Which group of people learned to make the first gunpowder?

• Mongols

• Greeks

• Chinese

• Romans

What is saltpeter?

• A seasoning for food

• A component of gunpowder

• A special weapon used by the Mongols

• A powder used by Greeks to make steam-powered devices

After the battle of Kai Keng, which group of people took Chinese rocket technology and improved it?

• Babylonians

• Persians

• Greeks

• Mongols

Why do we remember Roger Bacon when we think about rocketry?

• He launched the first rocket.

• He died experimenting on rockets.

• He performed experiments to increase the range of rockets.

• He used rockets to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his marriage.

Who created the first multi-stage rocket?

• Roger Bacon

• Jean Froissart

• Johann Schmidlap

• Isaac Newton

Whose laws of motion helped scientists understand how rockets launch and fly in space?

• Roger Bacon

• Jean Froissart

• Johann Schmidlap

• Isaac Newton

Which law of motion tells us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

Which law of motion says that an object's velocity changes when an external force acts on it?

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

Which law says that an object will remain at rest or at a constant velocity unless an external force acts upon it?

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion