Reading
1) What does Sophie hide in when a giant comes in to the BFG’s cave?
2) What is the plan the BFG and Sophie make to stop the giants?
3) How do the servants set up a place at the breakfast table for the BFG?
1) Snozzcumber
2) They decide that the BFG should mix a dream together to blow to the queen (at Buckingham palace in England) that shows what the giants are doing to the children.
3) A dresser drawers on top of a piano for a chair, an unused garden fork and spade for utensils, and the biggest jug they could find in the kitchen.
1) Plants or animals that naturally occur in a particular region.
2) The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something (like environmental damage).
1) Native Species
2) Mitigation
y + [4*(6-3)]/2 +16 = 200/(25/(3+2))
y = 18
1) What is the name of the item that caused the fire in the Granite mine disaster?
2) What was installed at the Granite Mountain mine in 1915 that was the largest in the country?
1) Carbide lamp
2) Electric hoist
1) What does EPA stand for and what year was it established?
2) How did copper from Butte help the country overall?
3) What two main metals are in mine waste?
1) The Environmental Protection Agency, 1970
2) Copper helped electrify America and played a major role in the economy
3) Lead & arsenic
Name the 10 different giants in the book.
BFG, Childchewer, Fleshlumpeater, Gizzardguzzler, Bloodbottler, Bonecruncher, Butcher boy, Maidmasher, Manhugger, Meatdripper
1) A flat strip of land, raised bank, or slope constructed to help control runoff and erosion.
2) A substance (often liquid) used to dissolve other substances.
1) Berm
2) Solvent
350*(4/2*2) =n*14
n = 100
1) What day did the disaster occur, how many people perished, and what did most of them die from?
2) What is the Granite Mountain mine connected to? why?
1) June 8, 1917, 168 men, smoke and asphyxiation (lack of oxygen)
2) The speculator mine (200 yds south); it was developed to bolster (increase) the productive capacity (amount of metal brought out of the mine) of its parent mine.
What were the goals for establishing the EPA?
1) to respond to environmental disasters
2) conduct research
3) establish and enforce environmental cleanup standards
4) develop regulations for chemicals
1) Who is the author of The BFG and when was it published?
2) What does the BFG use to collect dreams?
1) Roald Dahl, 1982
2) A net and jars.
1) The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level; using resources without depleting them for future generations.
2) A natural accumulation of of a mineral or ore.
1) Sustainability
2) Deposit
38 + h/(2*[16/4 + 26] = 8 + [100/20 + (9*3)]
h = 120
1) What happened that led to the start of the fire and how did it spread?
2) What were the people called that helped search for the miners after the disaster occurred?1) While installing a fire suppression system, a cable fell and was damaged; a carbide lamp flame accidentally ignited the oil-soaked fabric insulation of the cable. The fire rapidly climbed the cable, igniting mine timbers and consuming oxygen, spreading through the tunnels and leading to the death of 168 men.
2) the helmet men
1) Rachel Carson wrote a book called _____ in 1962 that depicted the harmful effects of what chemical?
2) What are “operable units” in the Superfund process?
3) When did the Superfund cleanup begin in Butte and what is it called?
1) Silent Spring, a pesticide called DDT
2) Big sites with contamination are broken up into smaller areas (called operable units) making it easier to investigate and clean up polluted areas.
3) 1983, Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area (SBC/BA)
1) What happens when the BFG leaves his cave with Sophie in his pocket for the first time to go collect more dreams?
2) What do they do with the captured giants in the end?
3) what does the BFG say they should eat since they won’t be eating children?
1) Fleshlumpeater uses the BFG to play catch with the other giants.
2) They dig a colossal (huge) hole in which the 9 giants are permanently imprisoned.
3) snozzcumbers
1) A deep, vertical tunnel used to lower miners and equipment and to lift ore.
2) A chemical often used in a process called leaching to dissolve and separate copper from the ore.
1) Shaft
2) Acid
1000*(25-[1500/300])/g + 54 = 43 + 21 - 10 + [20*25*2]
g = 20
1) What is the name of the site in Butte, MT created to honor those lost in the disaster?
2) True or False. The Granite Mountain-Speculator fire of 1917 is the worst mining accident in the history of the United States.
1) Granite Mountain-Speculator Memorial
2) False. It is the worse hard-rock mining disaster in the history of the United States, not mining overall.
1) What is the short name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)?
2) Who passed this act and when?
1) Superfund
2) Congress, 1980
What is the moral of the story in regards to justice and morality?
As taken from google AI: “Dahl questions human morality, contrasting the giants' direct evil with humans' capacity for mass violence, and emphasizes that "two wrongs don't make a right," as seen in the Queen's decision to imprison rather than kill the giants.”
1) A chemical process used to extract minerals from ore by dissolving them.
2) The product created after the valuable mineral has been separated from the waste rock.
1) Leaching
2) Concentrate
44/11+ 140/[k*7] = 8 - 4 + 5*(18/9)
k = 2
1) What did the miners do in the aftermath of the fire? Why? Who was brought in to keep the mines going and how long did they stay?
2) Many miners escaped through where? And what did some of the miners do that couldn’t get out? What was the longest some of the miners had to wait to be rescued?
1) The miners went on strike to protest dangerous working conditions.
Federal troops were called in to force the miners back to work and that occupied the city until 1921.
2) Badger and Diamond mines; they battered down concrete bulkheads to try and barricade themselves from the smoke; 55 hours
1) What kind of law is Superfund? Why/what does this mean?
2) What is the list of contaminated sites called that should receive cleanup after investigation by the EPA due to meeting certain criteria?
1) “Enforcement first” law, EPA always tries to find companies or entities that are responsible for a mess and have them clean it up (otherwise cleanup is funded by federal dollars)
2) National Priorities List