WorksheetsUp, up and away
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 15mins
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
Look at the picture and choose the correct word.
Balon
Balloon
Baloon
Balloonn
Who created the first hot air balloon?
The Wright brothers
The Montgolfier Brothers
Amelia Earheart
Mr and Mrs Montgolfier
The two brothers who invented a hot air balloon were from?
Uganda
Germany
France
USA
The hot air balloon was made of?
Paper and sand
Paper and cloth
Paper and sticks
feathers and wood
When the balloon is inflated, it will start to....
rise
lower
fall over
stay where it is
What causes a hot air balloon to rise in the air?
the pilot fills up the balloon's 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
The pilot cannot control the direction of the balloon. The balloon moves along according to the force of...
weather
wind currents
The passengers shaking the basket
gravity
What is the name of a machine that can fly through the air?
aircraft
truck
submarine
racing car
Who created the first airplane?
The Wright brothers
The Stanford brothers
The Wrong brothers
The Montgolfier brothers
_______ and _________ were the names of the two brothers.
Tom and Mark
Wilbur and Orville
Simon and Peter
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne
Growing up, the Wright brothers liked to build things. They made a toy __________ when they were young.
helicopter
plane
bike
motorbike
Which word fits the the definition: An aircraft without an engine (rising air currents keep it up in the air)
Flex
drag
hanger
glider
Where did the Wright brothers make their first flight?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Dayton, Ohio
Reno, Nevada
Millville, Indiana
A flat piece of wood or metal hinged vertically to the end of an aircraft is a _______________.
hanger
glider
rudder
cradle
Which is the odd one out?
Flight attendant
Passenger
Trolley
Pilot
What did their plane look like?
The first person to travel into space was called?
Wilbur Wright
Etienne Montgolfier
Yuri Gagarin
Laika
The first moon landing was done by 3 astronauts.
True
False
A person who travels into space is called an?
Astronaut
Acrobat
Archer
Archaeologist
The first satellite launched into space by Russia was called
Space Suit
Sputnik
ISS
Astronaut
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)
Which two activities did Armstrong and Aldrin do during their moonwalk?
They planted the American flag and collected moon rocks from the surface.
They wandered around the moon and did back flips.
They roamed around the moon and left footprints.
They walked as far as they could and then walked back again.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
A fancy restaurant in space
A place where astronauts can live and work in space
A school in space
A place to live on Mars
A ............orbits a planet, sends waves to and from Earth
satellite
spaceprobe
launch-pad
light-year
