Across
- 1. Part of a kite used to direct the kite’s angle of attack
- 3. Kites originated in this country
- 5. The greater the ___, the lower the pressure
- 8. Without a tail, kits will tend to have this motion
- 10. An imaginary line that divides a shape into two identical, mirrored halves
- 13. Squares and rectangle are types of these geometric shapes
- 16. This term is another word for balanced
- 19. Most lift is created by holding the kite an an ___ to the wind.
- 20. Part of a kite that causes increased drag on the bottom to keep the kite pointed into the wind
- 22. Most common kite flying injury
- 25. "When object A exerts a force on object B, object B exerts an equal force on object A in the opposite direction" is Newton's ___ Law.
- 26. This force depends on wind speed, the surface area of the kite, and its angle of attack
- 27. This is caused by a force acting a distance away from a rotation point
- 29. Part of a kite that keeps the kite from being blown away
- 30. All interior angles of this shape are less than 180 degrees
- 31. The net force acting on a kite in flight
Down
- 1. This person used a kite to prove that lightning was electrical
- 2. A terms that means tied down
- 4. Part of a kite that gives the kite structure
- 6. A term that means never ending
- 7. A type of friction force
- 9. Kites will ___ until the center of gravity is directly below the rotation point
- 11. A force spread out over an area
- 12. What happens when the the angle of attack gets too large and the air over the top becomes turbulent
- 14. The motion that occurs when the two sides move back and forth
- 15. The direction of the drag acting on a kite is always the same direction as this
- 17. The force along the kite's string
- 18. This type of kite added together can lift several hundred pounds
- 21. This term is another name for a wing
- 23. A tethered object with an aerodynamic shape that depends on moving air to create lift
- 24. Part of a kite designed to gain lift from the wind
- 28. This aspect of a kite can assist roll stabiltiy
