WorksheetsHot Air Balloon test
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 17mins
What choice means almost the SAME as the word controlled?
make a decision
to travel somewhere
against the law
moved by something else
Which words mean the OPPOSITE of the word impossible?
difficult
hopeless
likely
possible
What vocabulary word means "to start something in motion"?
direction
launch
motion
flight
In the sentence "Our current president is Donald Trump." What does the word "current" mean
A path of wind
Today, right, now modern
A flow of electricity through a circuit.
"The lightning shorted out the current to the cable box." In this sentence "current" means...
Today, right, now modern
A path of wind
A flow of electricity through a circuit.
Read this sentence from the text, "Ballooning became very popular."
Which sentence below uses popular with the same meaning as the sentence from the story?
My students popular around the room during the Christmas party.
I'm going to popular all of my money on cotton candy.
Lots of kids play video games that are popular these days.
Mrs. Black will popular all the time when she's at Disney World
Choose the answer below that shows how the author used cause and effect in the text.
many balloons take off at the same time, the sky fills with color
Blanchard flew a balloon in America, George Washington watched
the air in the balloon is heated, the balloon lifts off the ground
an airship has a gas balloon, pilots could steer them
What are some of the text features on pages 350-351?
map, diagram, photograph and captions
map, highlighted text, captions
photographs, captions, heading and bold words
highlighted text and captions
Read the paragraph.
Throughout history, people have wondered what it would be like to fly. The Chinese watched their kites move with the wind. The Greeks told stories of men who made wings to help them fly. People drew pictures of flying machines. But flying seemed impossible.
How are the ideas connected in the paragraph? Pick two choices.
By telling how people fly on hot air balloon
By comparing flying to kites
By comparing flying machines to wings
By comparing people who wanted to fly
By telling how people thought about flying
What is the Main Idea on pages 354-355
A pilot uses these currents to move from place to place
When he finds a current going in the direction he wants to go, he lets the balloon ride the wind right or left.
Pilots can’t control how fast the balloon moves that is controlled by the wind.
Riding a hot air balloon is an adventure
Choose the sentence(s) that show how the author tells you the cause and effect of the Wright Brothers first airplane flight.
In the early 1900s, the Wright Brothers also flew the first airplane.
After that, people rode airplanes for travel instead.
But people didn't forget about balloons.
They built gas balloons that could study the weather and even travel around the world.
True or False: hot air balloons only carry animals not people
True
False
True or False: Hot air balloons were invented by the Montgolfier brothers
False
True
True or False: hot air balloons were used during the war to carry soldiers
True
False
True or False: hot air balloons need help from the wind to steer
True
False
What causes a hot air balloon to rise in the air?
the pilot fills up the balloons gas tank and they go up in the air
the cold air in the balloon makes it rise up into the hot sky
the hot air in the balloon is lighter than the cold air outside the balloon
the hot air outside pushes the hot air in the balloon up in the sky
How does the wind cause a hot air balloon to fly?
pilots use handle bars to steer the balloon around
pilots use wind currents to push the balloon from place to place
the wind tears the balloon and sends it in the wrong direction
the pilot talks to his crew on the radio and they steer the balloon
Read the paragraph.
When the pilot wants the balloon to go down, he pulls a cord that lets out some of the hot air. The cord opens the parachute valve. The parachute valve is a cut-out circle of nylon in the top of the balloon. The balloon stops rising. As more hot air escapes, the balloon sinks toward the ground.
How are these ideas connected in the paragraph?
By telling how the balloon is landed
By comparing how the balloon goes up and down.
By explaining how the balloon becomes lighter.
By comparing hot air escaping to the balloon sinking.
