Unit 7 Chapter 1 Study Guide

Use the image to answer the question. The invention shown in the photograph 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? Select the two correct answers.

• A human-made object orbited Earth.

• A person traveled to space for the first time.

• American scientists discovered new technologies.

• The Soviet Union was surprised by American progress.

• It seemed the United States was losing the Space Race.

What was the United States the first country to accomplish?

• landing a person on Mars

• sending a person into space

• sending an object into space

• landing a person on the moon

Use the image to answer the question. What was notable about the object shown in the image?

• It could be used only once.

• It could not leave Earth’s atmosphere.

• It could withstand the harsh conditions of space.

• It could spy on other countries during the Cold War.

Use the image to answer the question. Which scientific breakthrough was aided by the vehicle in the photograph?

• the landing of people on the moon

• the invention of computers and the Internet

• the discovery that Mars once had areas of water

• the ability to communicate instantaneously across oceans

Use the image to answer the question. 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 mathematician who worked at NASA.

• She was an astronaut.

• She was a lab technician.

• She was an aerospace scientist.

Use the image to answer the question. 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.

Use the excerpt to answer the question. Why was this speech by President Kennedy considered to be bold?

• He gave it in front of a large group of people.

• He was not willing to listen to others’ viewpoints.

• He promised something that seemed impossible.

• He would not accept that people did not want to listen to him.