Oxford International Primary History_Year 2_Unit 4

Who were the two brothers from France who noticed that hot air rises and wanted to use it to send a balloon up into the sky?

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Joseph and Michael Montgolfier

• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

• Marco Polo and Yuri Gagarin

What is an aircraft?

• A vehicle that travels on land

• A vehicle that travels on water

• A machine that can travel through space

• A machine that can fly through the air

Who were the American brothers who built the first airplane with an engine?

• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

• Marco Polo and Yuri Gagarin

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Joseph and Michael Montgolfier

What is a pilot?

• A person who drives a car

• A person who drives a ship

• A person who flies an aircraft

• A person who rides a bicycle

What is a biplane?

• An airplane with one set of wings

• An airplane with three sets of wings

• An airplane with four sets of wings

• An airplane with two sets of wings

Who was the first African woman pilot?

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Lotfia Elnadi

• Laika

• Marco Polo

What is a space station?

• A facility in space for scientific research

• A vehicle that travels to other planets

• A machine that orbits the earth

• A structure that orbits the moon

Who was the first person to travel into space?

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Alexey Leonov

How far away is the moon from Earth?

• 384,400 feet

• 384,400 meters

• 384,400 kilometers

• 384,400 miles

Which US spacecraft landed on the moon in 1969?

• Sputnik

• Vostok 1

• Apollo 13

• Apollo 11