Pictures
Words
Important Ideas
Questions
Melina Shows Her Mettle
100

A scientist works on the first satellite in space.

What is Sputnik 1?

100

An object sent into space to orbit Earth, the moon, or another planet. 

What is satellite?

100

"Reach for the Stars" is this kind of genre.

What is Biography?

100

A tropical illness that kills thousands of people every year.

What is Chagas?

100

Melina's great-great-grandfather.

What is Franklin Chang Diaz?

200

Franklin was willing to give up his life for this.

What is "a dream"?

200

Change completely.

What is revolutionize?

200

Franklin Chang Diaz was helped by the __________ of his parents and other people. 

What is encouragement?

200

Dr. Chang Diaz tells young people that his parents had very little money and that if he could do it, _________ could.

What is anybody?

200

Melina had to work very hard at _______.

What is school?

300

Franklin and his teammate hold up a sign to show that each of them spent this many hours in space.

What is 1000 hours?

300

A colorless gas.

What is hydrogen?

300

By 1977, Franklin had not only learned to speak English well, but he also had a ________ in plasma physics. 

What is a doctorate?

300

Franklin revolutionized space travel by developing this. 

What is plasma rocket?

300

In Costa Rica, pura vida has many meanings, including "full of life" and ________.

What is "life is good?"

400

Franklin overcame many _______ to reach his goal of becoming an astronaut.

What is obstacles?

400

An organism that lives on another organism and feeds on it. 

What is a parasite?

400

In 1980, Franklin got in to the space shuttle program and only _____ people had been chosen from the 4,000 who had applied. 

What is 19?

400

The journey to Mars took this many hours.

What is 39?

400

Melina is the first person ever to see this.

What is the sun?

500

Dr. Chang Diaz's final mission was on ______.

What is Endeavor?

500

The object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.

What is goal?

500

Dr. Chang Diaz's second mission, the space shuttle launched the Galileo spacecraft on its six-year journey to ______. 

What is Jupiter?

500

Franklin Chang Diaz tries to help people with problems. He works with young Costa Ricans. He tries to communicate to them that they should do this.

What is follow their dreams?

500

The genre of "Melina Shows Her Mettle."

What is science fiction?

M
e
n
u