Flight

If an airplane engine cut out in midair, which force would decrease almost immediately?

• Gravity

• Thrust

• Weight

• Drag

What can you infer from the fact that airplane wings and birds' wings have similar shapes?

• That birds fly better than airplanes because they existed first

• That birds and airplanes take off in the exact same way

• That airplane wings were originally covered in feathers

• That aircraft engineers studied birds' wings when they designed plane wings

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How can we communicate our data with others?

• By forming a hypothesis

• By throwing our paper planes

• By collecting data and making a graph

• By doing the experiment

When might you feel the force of drag in everyday life?

• When you take an elevator upward

• When you stick your hand out the window of a moving car

• When you sit under a ceiling fan

• When you take an escalator downward

The engine of an airplane provides __________.

• Thrust

• Drag

• Gravity

• Lift

The wings of an airplane are designed to provide ___________.

• Thrust

• Lift

• Drag

• Gravity

If lift is defined as an Upward Force, what is weight defined as?

• forward force

• downward force

• backwards force

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This is the name of the force that tries to move an aircraft forward.

• Thrust

• Gravity

• Drag

• Lift

This is the name of the force that tries to hold an aircraft back.

• Thrust

• Gravity

• Drag

• Lift

This is the name of the force that tries to push an aircraft up.

• Thrust

• Gravity

• Drag

• Lift