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Up, up and away

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
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1.

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.

a)

By telling how people fly on hot air balloon

b)

By comparing flying to kites

c)

By comparing flying machines to wings

d)

By comparing people who wanted to fly

e)

By telling how people thought about flying

2.

Look at the picture and choose the correct word.

a)

Balon

b)

Balloon

c)

Baloon

d)

Balloonn

3.

Who created the first hot air balloon?

a)

The Wright brothers

b)

The Montgolfier Brothers

c)

Amelia Earheart

d)

Mr and Mrs Montgolfier

4.

The two brothers who invented a hot air balloon were from?

a)

Uganda

b)

Germany

c)

France

d)

USA

5.

The hot air balloon was made of?

a)

Paper and sand

b)

Paper and cloth

c)

Paper and sticks

d)

feathers and wood

6.

When the balloon is inflated, it will start to....

a)

rise

b)

lower

c)

fall over

d)

stay where it is

7.

What causes a hot air balloon to rise in the air?

a)

the pilot fills up the balloon's gas tank and they go up in the air

b)

the cold air in the balloon makes it rise up into the hot sky

c)

the hot air in the balloon is lighter than the cold air outside the balloon

d)

the hot air outside pushes the hot air in the balloon up in the sky

8.

The pilot cannot control the direction of the balloon. The balloon moves along according to the force of...

a)

weather

b)

wind currents

c)

The passengers shaking the basket

d)

gravity

9.

What is the name of a machine that can fly through the air?

a)

aircraft

b)

truck

c)

submarine

d)

racing car

10.

Who created the first airplane?

a)

The Wright brothers

b)

The Stanford brothers

c)

The Wrong brothers

d)

The Montgolfier brothers

11.

_______ and _________ were the names of the two brothers.

a)

Tom and Mark

b)

Wilbur and Orville

c)

Simon and Peter

d)

Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne

12.

Growing up, the Wright brothers liked to build things. They made a toy __________ when they were young.

a)

helicopter

b)

plane

c)

bike

d)

motorbike

13.

Which word fits the the definition: An aircraft without an engine (rising air currents keep it up in the air)

a)

Flex

b)

drag

c)

hanger

d)

glider

14.

Where did the Wright brothers make their first flight?

a)

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

b)

Dayton, Ohio

c)

Reno, Nevada

d)

Millville, Indiana

15.

A flat piece of wood or metal hinged vertically to the end of an aircraft is a _______________.

a)

hanger

b)

glider

c)

rudder

d)

cradle

16.

Which is the odd one out?

a)

Flight attendant

b)

Passenger

c)

Trolley

d)

Pilot

17.
What was one of the reasons that the Wright brothers tested their powered airplane at Kill Devil Hills?
a)
It was warmer in North Carolina than it was in Ohio.
b)
They wanted their airplane to take off from the top of a hill.
c)
It was an area that had a lot of open space.
d)
It had the country's best equipped airport.
18.

What did their plane look like?

a)
b)
c)
d)
19.
What is a person who travels in space called?
a)
star gazer
b)
astronaut
c)
space man
d)
moon man
20.

The first person to travel into space was called?

a)

Wilbur Wright

b)

Etienne Montgolfier

c)

Yuri Gagarin

d)

Laika

21.

The first moon landing was done by 3 astronauts.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

A person who travels into space is called an?

a)

Astronaut

b)

Acrobat

c)

Archer

d)

Archaeologist

23.

The first satellite launched into space by Russia was called

a)

Space Suit

b)

Sputnik

c)

ISS

d)

Astronaut

24.

Fill in the missing words from this famous quote Neil Armstrong said when he landed on the moon.

“That’s one small --------------- for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

(a)  

25.

Which two activities did Armstrong and Aldrin do during their moonwalk?

a)

They planted the American flag and collected moon rocks from the surface.

b)

They wandered around the moon and did back flips.

c)

They roamed around the moon and left footprints.

d)

They walked as far as they could and then walked back again.

26.

What is the International Space Station (ISS)?

a)

A fancy restaurant in space

b)

A place where astronauts can live and work in space

c)

A school in space

d)

A place to live on Mars

27.
International Space Station 
a)
Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
b)
Launchpad 
c)
Space Probe
d)
ISS
28.

A ............orbits a planet, sends waves to and from Earth

a)

satellite

b)

spaceprobe

c)

launch-pad

d)

light-year