Year 2 _ Unit 3 _ Air and Space Travel

Who were the two brothers from France who noticed that hot air rises and wanted to use it to send a balloon up into the sky?

• Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier

• Marco Polo and Yuri Gagarin

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

What is an astronaut?

• A person who designs airplanes

• A person who flies an aircraft

• A person who studies the stars

• A person who travels into space

What was the name of the first satellite sent into space?

• Apollo 11

• Flyers

• Vostok 1

• Sputnik

Who became the first African woman pilot in 1933?

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Lotfia Elnadi

• Laika

• Alexey Leonov

What did the Wright brothers name their airplane?

• Apollo 11

• Sputnik

• Flyers

• Vostok 1

What is the distance between the Earth and the Moon?

• 384,400 kilometers

• 12,000 meters

• 10 kilometers

• 83 million passengers

Who was the first person to travel into space?

• Alexey Leonov

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Valentina Tereshkova

What did the Wright brothers build to test their ideas before building an airplane?

• Kites

• Bicycles

• Boats

• Cars

What did the first airplanes fly from?

• Harbors

• Airports

• Train stations

• Airfields

What did the Neil Armstrong bring back from the moon that was 3.7 billion years old?

• Plastic packets

• Sleeping bags

• Moon rocks

• Metal ball