Modelling A Rocket 🚀

Question 1

What is a rocket?

Answer 1

A long,tall structure that can be propelled into space

Question 2

What is launch?

Answer 2

To send a spacecraft into space

Question 3

What is gravity?

Answer 3

The pull that holds things on Earth

Question 4

What is a vehicle?

Answer 4

A machine that is used to carry people from one place to another

Question 5

What is propel?

Answer 5

To move or push something forwards

Question 6

What do people use rockets for?

Answer 6

People use rockets to travel into space and visit the Moon

Question 7

What is each rocket?

Answer 7

Each rocket is a system

Question 8

What is a system?

Answer 8

A system has different parts that work together make something happen

Question 9

What does a rocket need to get it moving fast enough?

Answer 9

A rocket needs ALOT of ENERGY to get it moving fast enough to escape Earth’s gravity and to push threw the Earth’s atmosphere

Question 10

What does a rocket burn?

Answer 10

A rocket burns fuel to release the energy they need

Question 11

What is the input of energy,the process and the output of energy of a rocket?

Answer 11

•input of energy: energy stored in the fuel
•process:fuel is burned.hot gases shoot out of the bottom of therocket
•output of energy:fast upward, movement energy

Question 12

What do rockets take into space?

Answer 12

Rockets take people,vehicle equipment and other spacecraft into space

Question 13

What must a rocket be ?

Answer 13

A rocket must be strong and light

Question 14

Why?

Answer 14

The lighter the rocket the more equipment it can carry into space and it makes it easier to be propelled into space

Question 15

Why must the nose cone of the rocket be pointy?

Answer 15

The rockets shape makes it easier to push through the air

Question 16

What are the 3 types of energy a rockets has in order?

Answer 16

Potential energy, chemical energy,kinetic energy

Question 17

Who were the first three men on the Moon?

Answer 17

Neil Armstrong - Mission Commander.
Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin - lunar module pilot.
Michael Collins - command module pilot

Question 18

Who was the first creature on the moon?

Answer 18

A female dog

Question 19

What was her name

Answer 19

Laika ,she was a stray dog

Question 20

Did the creature survive in space?

Answer 20

She survived for 4 days until the cabin over heated and she died

Question 21

What was the first three men on the moon space craft called?

Answer 21

Apollo 11

Question 22

Who was the first man in space?

Answer 22

Yuri Gagarin

Answer 23

Eagle

Question 24

Which two countries had a space race?

Question 25

Which country won the space race?

Question 26

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

Answer 26

Sir Isaac Newton was a scientist that lived three hundred years ago?

Question 27

What did he discover?

Answer 27

He discovered that all objects on Earth move according to some laws or rules ?

Question 28

What doe shis third law say?

Answer 28

For every push in one direction there is a equal push in the opposite direction

Question 29

What does this law explain?

Answer 29

This law explains how rockets and balloons move

Question 30

What makes a balloon move ?

Answer 30

1. the air in the balloon is under pressure.The air is pushing against the balloon and the balloon is pushing against the air.when air is under pressure it will try to escape

2.when you let the balloon go the air pushes out in one direction.the air pushes the balloon upwards in the opposite direction

Question 31

What happens when a solid or liquid gas burns?

Answer 31

When a solid or liquids gas burns inside a rocket,hot gases shoot out at the bottom of the rocket,the rocket is then propelled into the sky