Social Studies Unit 7 Chapter 1

The invention of the first airplane was important to the development of what technology?

• flight

• internet

• smartphone

• television

What was the first type of airplane engine used?

• jet engine

• rocket engine

• propeller engine

• gas-powered engine

What were the effects of the launch of Sputnik? Choose 2.

• A human-made object orbited Earth

• It seemed the US was losing the Space Race

• A person traveled to space for the first time

• American scientists discovered new technologies

What was the US the first country to accomplish?

• landing a person on Mars

• sending a person into space

• sending an object to space

• landing a person on the moon

Which scientific breakthrough was aided by the vehicle in the photograph?

• the landing of people on the moon

• the invention of computers and internet

• the discovery that Mars once had areas of water

• the ability to communicate instantaneously across oceans

Which is the main use of the vehicle in the picture?

• defense

• medicine

• exploration

• transportation

What work did Katherine Johnson do for NASA?

• She was a computer

• She was an astronaut

• She was a lab technician

• She was an aerospace scientist

What was this woman the first to do?

• She was the first American woman to work for NASA.

• She was the first American woman to travel into space.

• She was the first American woman to land on the moon.

• She was the first American woman to pilot a rover to Mars.

the operation of aircraft

• aviation

• propeller

• atmosphere

• rivalry

a device with blades that rotate to make an airplane move forward

• satellite

• rover

• propeller

• equation