Bird Flight Principles and Challenges

Bird Flight Principles and Challenges

Assessment

Interactive Video

Physics

6th - 8th Grade

Hard

Created by

Patricia Brown

FREE Resource

The video humorously explores why birds cannot fly in space. It explains that birds fly using Bernoulli's principle, which requires air to create lift. Since space is a vacuum with no air, birds cannot fly there. Additionally, birds rely on gravity to swallow food, which is another challenge in space.

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5 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What humorous reason does AumSum give for why birds can't fly in space?

They are too heavy.

AumSum keeps bringing them back.

They don't have enough energy.

They are afraid of heights.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What principle is used to explain how birds fly?

Newton's Third Law

Pascal's Law

Archimedes' Principle

Bernoulli's Principle

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the shape of a bird's wings help it to fly?

It makes them lighter.

It allows them to glide longer.

It causes air to move faster above the wings.

It helps them to swim better.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why can't birds fly in space?

They get tired quickly.

They need sunlight to fly.

Their wings are too small.

There is no air in space.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What challenge would birds face in space even if they could fly?

Finding food

Swallowing food

Staying warm

Breathing