Unit 3 Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means to dip under fluid or be completely covered/flooded by liquid or wind
What is submerged?
Who is the Kansas-born author and National Book Award winner who wrote the poem "What If We Were Alone?"
Who is William Stafford?
What planet do Harry Bittering and his family travel to in order to escape the threat of nuclear war on Earth?
What is Mars?
According to author Meg Thacher, what target decade does NASA plan to send the first human missions to Mars?
What is the 2030s?
What is the real, secret billionaire identity of Gotham City's Dark Knight, Batman?
Who is Bruce Wayne?
This vocabulary word describes someone or something that appears lonely, sad, or abandoned
What is forlorn?
What famous historical astronomer is mentioned in stanza 1 who pointed outward and said, "Look—it is out there, a hint of whether we are everything"?
Who is Galileo (Galileo Galilei)?
What catastrophic radio news strikes the settlement, stranding all 800 Earth settlers on Mars forever?
What is atom bombs hit New York and destroyed all space rockets?
What experimental NASA instrument is designed to pull carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) from the thin Martian atmosphere to produce breathable oxygen?
What is MOXIE?
What is the name of Bruce Wayne's wise, highly skilled butler and trusted confidant at Wayne Manor?
Who is Alfred Pennyworth?
This verb means to become fainter, smaller, or move further away into the distance
What is recede?
What poetic form is used in "What If We Were Alone?"—characterized by a lack of regular rhyme, rhythm, or fixed stanza pattern?
What is free verse?
What physical transformation first appears in the settlers' eyes as the Martian atmosphere alters them?
What is flecks of gold / golden eyes?
What is the single biggest environmental danger on the surface of Mars that forces human habitats to be buried underground?
What is cosmic radiation (solar radiation / cosmic rays)?
What infamous, cackling villain known as the "Clown Prince of Crime" is Batman's ultimate arch-nemesis?
Who is The Joker?
This word means passing time without doing anything purposeful, or running an engine slowly in neutral.
What is idle?
In stanza 3, what natural Earth element on the ground has a "voice" that falls through the rapids and "calls all the rocks by their secret names"?
What is the river (or rapids / moving water)?
What old Martian name replaces the settlers' American name "Roosevelt Canal"?
What is the Tirra Canal? (Also accept Pillan Mountains for Rockefeller Range).
Exactly how many feet of Martian soil (regolith) must be packed over surface habitats to safely shield colonists from cosmic rays?
What is 16 feet (or 5 meters)?
What subterranean, high-tech command facility hidden beneath Wayne Manor houses the Batmobile and supercomputer?
What is the Batcave?
This vocabulary adjective describes a person or event that is sociable, lively, and friendly
What is convivial?
What is the main central theme of Stafford's poem regarding human connection and space?
What is humans are deeply connected to the cosmos and nature, naturally led outward to seek company rather than being isolated?
When rescue rockets arrive five years later, where have all the Earth settlers gone, and what do they now look/act like?
What is they moved to ancient marble villas in the hills, speak Martian, have dark bronze skin/golden eyes, and completely forgot Earth?
Why will the first Martian settlers live on a strictly vegan diet?
What is livestock requires too much fuel/space to transport, while plants consume $CO_2$, generate $O_2$, and recycle sewage?
What searchlight device projected into the stormy night sky over Gotham City is used by Commissioner Gordon to summon Batman?
What is the Bat-Signal?