WorksheetsRocket Science
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A machine that uses escaping gas from burning fuel to move.
a)
Car
b)
truck
c)
rocket
d)
train
2.
American physicist and inventor who launched the first successful liquid fueled rocket.
a)
KonstantinTsiolkovsky
b)
Robert Goddard
c)
Newton
d)
Von Braun
3.
Russian High School teacher, proved in theory that rockets could generate enough force to reach outer space.
a)
Robert Goddard
b)
Von Braun
c)
Newton
d)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
4.
German built rocket that could deliver explosives from German military bases to London.
a)
v-2 Rocket
b)
v-4 Rocket
c)
Saturn V Rocket
d)
Mercury Atlas Rocket
5.
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
a)
World War I
b)
Worl War II
c)
Cold War
d)
Civil War
6.
competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
a)
NASA
b)
World War II
c)
Cold War Race
d)
Arms Race
7.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration formed by the U. S. government in response to Soviet advances in space.
a)
Arms Race
b)
NASA
c)
International Space Station
d)
Nations Air Service Administration
8.
The amount of material a rocket is able to carry into space.
a)
mass
b)
volume
c)
heavyload
d)
payload
9.
The pushing or pulling force exerted by the engine of an aircraft or rocket.
a)
velocity
b)
thrust
c)
inertia
d)
stored energy
10.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
a)
Force
b)
reflection
c)
Newton's Third Law of Motion
d)
Newton's second Law of Motion
11.
Speed and direction of a rocket.
a)
velocity
b)
force
c)
thrust
d)
inertia
12.
At this velocity, rockets traveling at less than 8 KM/s would not be able to orbit Earth.
a)
escape velocity
b)
orbital velocity
c)
suborbital velocity
d)
preorbital velocity
13.
The speed a rocket must maintain to stay in Earth’s orbit is 8/KMS.
a)
escape velocity
b)
orbital velocity
c)
suborbital velocity
d)
preorbital velocity
14.
The speed and direction a rocket must travel to completely break away from a planet’s gravitational pull, the speed must be 11 Km/s.
a)
escape velocity
b)
orbital velocity
c)
suborbital velocity
d)
preorbital velocity
15.
Involved more than 30 countries. Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war lasted six years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.
a)
World War I
b)
Cold War
c)
World War II
d)
Civil War
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