Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics is known as the study of how ________ interacts with solid objects. The dynamic of what it is may already be in the name!
What is air?
This dark planetary feature is often home to bears, bats, skeletons, and even creepers!?
What are caves?
The most common form of animal fossil remains found in New Jersey is not that of a fictional small toothy green creature, but does share a name with them… and teeth!
What are Goblin shark teeth.
These colossal common ancestors of birds once roamed the earth before a certain planetary impact changed everything.
What are Dinosaurs?
Mr Medeiros is famous at Collier for something he tends to always have with him. This tool is often used for writing in inconvenient places, but he uses it here to store his core card stamps and ink.
What is a clipboard?
This Y shaped tool is often a go to instrument for aerodynamics when it comes to launching birds into pigs.
What is a slingshot?
The invisible and often lighter than air category of substances that surround us at all times. It also makes up much of the atmosphere!
What are gasses? / What is gas?
Archaeology is the study of material remains from past human life and activities. The combination of digging up the past, using brushes, and wearing cool hats often has this word confused with the study of all past life and fossil hunting. It also ends in ology.
What is Paleontology?
This common domicile of both reptiles and birds shows the common ancestry they once shared. More modern versions of these homes can be made with wires and metal scraps if found in a city.
What are nests?
Some say you’re never fully dressed without a smile. Others say Mr. Medeiros is never fully himself without this additional article of outdoor clothing.
What is a hat?
While not the fashion or racing kind, this scientific principal of aerodynamics helps create resistance with air to slow an object in it’s decent. Often seen in parachutes.
What is drag.
The heavy force of magnetism the planet exerts on us that keeps us grounded.
What is gravity?
This body of running water is often where fossils are found. It’s often classified by it’s size, being too small to be called a stream, it runs through the bottom of forests and erodes the ground beneath it.
What is a brook?
Birds like that of the Vultures, Buzzards, and Magpies are not consumers or producers, but fill a small part of this niche role in the transfer of energy in nature.
What are scavengers / decomposers?
Mr. Medeiros has had many pets in the past. Currently he has 2 of this animal who respond to the names Bella and Piper.
What are dogs?
This aspect of aerodynamics is often needed to keep something in the air for a long time. In some forms it comes as fuel, while in others it may come as a simple throw.
What is thrust!
A planet that EX-ists outside of our solar system is known as this 9 letter word.
What is an exoplanet?
New Jersey is home to a high number of aquatic and semiaquatic fossils from shrimp to sharks to mosasaurs. This odd collection of underwater critters can only mean that at one point in it’s history, the state of New Jersey was what?
What is Submerged / Underwater?
Birds like Eagles and Hawks make these kinds of massive nests on the tops of trees with large sticks to support their clutch of eggs.
What are platform nests?
Mr. Medeiros is not an only child. He lives with 3 brothers that hold one odd thing in common that they celebrate every year. They may even share gifts too!
What is the same birthday?
This famous angle in aerodynamics is not acute or obtuse, but rather an offensive angle that clearly defines the exact spot air first interacts with an object.
What is the angle of attack?
Potentially habitable planets like Proxima Centauri b are not labeled as terrestrial, ice giants, or as gas giants but as a slightly bigger earth known as a ____________. They are earthy planets similar to our own, but slightly more… super?
What is a super earth?
In 1838 North America's very first nearly complete dinosaur was discovered in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The specimen, a duck billed dinosaur HAD much of its time in a museum SAUR by until it was officially studied in 1858 and given this name.
What is Hadrosaurus foulkii
An aviary may help nurse or provide sanctuary for birds both large and small of all species. Not all can make it in however, as only this population of birds is accepted to help sustain their population.
What are Endangered / At risk populations.
Mr. Medeiros was once in possession of a rare bird in his youth. This yellow naped amazon parrot was better known by his first name ending in the letter Y.
Who is Chucky?