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WorksheetsThis is Rocket Science!
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 23mins
These are all the forces that act on moving rocket.
Lift, Weight, Gravity & Thrust
Lift, Drag, Gravity & Thrust
Lift, Push, Pull & Drag
Lift, Thrust & Drag
Resistance that slows an object down in the atmosphere(air).
Drag
Fin
Fuselage
Speed of Sound
Two identical soccer balls are launched across the field by a catapult five minutes apart. One ball travels 5 meters further than the other. What explanation can be given for this difference?
One ball experienced more gravity than the other.
One ball experienced more drag because of the wind.
One ball was heavier than the other.
It is impossible for the two balls to travel different distances.
What is the main difference between a jet engine and a rocket engine?
Rocket engines function by expelling hot gases opposite to the direction of desired acceleration, jet engines do not.
Jet engines have nozzles and rockets do not.
Jet engines get oxygen to burn fuel from the air and rocket engines carry their own which allows them to operate in space.
Jet engines are generally more powerful and wasteful than rocket engines.
Which are the major components of a model rocket?
body tube
wings
engine
fins
nose cone
Which rocket component reduces drag?
nose cone
streamer
Which rocket component increases drag?
nose cone
streamer
Which rocket component holds the nose cone to the body tube?
streamer
launch lug
engine
shockcord
Which rocket component helps to hold the rocket straight?
launch lug
nose cone
streamer
shockcord
When a rocket is sitting on a launch pad, what type of energy does it have?
Potential
Kinetic
Gravity
When a rocket is blasting off into space, what type of energy does it have?
Potential
Kinetic
Gravity
Why is it important to have fins on your rocket?
They stabilize the rocket
The reduce drag
They evenly distributes the weight
what is ALTITUDE?
How high in the air the rocket traveled.
How tall the rocket is.
How fast the rocket is traveling after launch.
When you throw an object straight up, why doesn't it fly off into space?
There's too much thrust acting on the object
Earth's atmosphere prevents the object from going into space
The object travels too fast to reach Earth orbit
The force of gravity pulls the object back down to Earth
Which two opposing forces are at work when a rocket flies into space?
Drag and torque
Gravity and thrust
Thrust and torque
Drag and gravity
