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Rocketry and Aviation, Day 1

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which group of people learned to make the first gunpowder?

a)

Mongols

b)

Greeks

c)

Chinese

d)

Romans

2.

What is saltpeter?

a)

A seasoning for food

b)

A component of gunpowder

c)

A special weapon used by the Mongols

d)

A powder used by Greeks to make steam-powered devices

3.

After the battle of Kai Keng, which group of people took Chinese rocket technology and improved it?

a)

Babylonians

b)

Persians

c)

Greeks

d)

Mongols

4.

Why do we remember Roger Bacon when we think about rocketry?

a)

He launched the first rocket.

b)

He died experimenting on rockets.

c)

He performed experiments to increase the range of rockets.

d)

He used rockets to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his marriage.

5.

Who created the first multi-stage rocket?

a)

Roger Bacon

b)

Jean Froissart

c)

Johann Schmidlap

d)

Isaac Newton

6.

Whose laws of motion helped scientists understand how rockets launch and fly in space?

a)

Roger Bacon

b)

Jean Froissart

c)

Johann Schmidlap

d)

Isaac Newton

7.

Which law of motion tells us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?

a)

Newton's First Law of Motion

b)

Newton's Second Law of Motion

c)

Newton's Third Law of Motion

8.

Which law of motion says that an object's velocity changes when an external force acts on it?

a)

Newton's First Law of Motion

b)

Newton's Second Law of Motion

c)

Newton's Third Law of Motion

9.

Which law says that an object will remain at rest or at a constant velocity unless an external force acts upon it?

a)

Newton's First Law of Motion

b)

Newton's Second Law of Motion

c)

Newton's Third Law of Motion