Flying Through the Eye
Selling Time
Ludicrous Records
Monarch Butterflies
Definitions and Strategies
100

What a meteorologist studies.

What is the atmosphere (or weather/storms)?

100

The Reason Ruth Belville stopped selling time

What is "the streets of London were unsafe due to World War One"?

100

A word that means the same (a synonym) for Ludicrous.

What is crazy, ridiculous, silly, unreasonable, laughable, stupid or absurd (or another reasonable word)?

100

The destination monarch butterflies reach in the winter.

What is Mexico?

100

The act of going from one country, region, or place to another.

What is migrate/migration?

200

What pilots use to fly when it is too foggy or stormy to see.

What are instruments?

200

The profession of Ruth Belville's father.

What is an astronomer?

200

The author's opinion of some records, according to the article.

What is "they are ridiculous/ludicrous/outlandish, etc."?

200

When the butterflies lay eggs die before finishing their journey: when they head south or when they head north. 

What is when they head north?

200

The entire group of individuals born and living at about the same time.

What is a generation?

300

The state that is most likely to experience a hurricane: Wisconsin, Georgia, or Montana.

What is Georgia?

300

The accuracy of the Belville family pocket watch

What is one tenth of a second (1/10; .1)?

300

Which of these is a proper noun: 

Ashrita Furman

record

80 miles per hour

squid

What is Ashrita Furman?

300

Something the monarch butterfly has a difficult time doing.

What is walking?

300

When you arrive to a conclusion using evidence you are making one of these. 

What is an inference?

400

The wind speeds possible in a hurricane.

What is 150 miles per hour or higher?

400

Man-made map concept:__________ represent the vertical lines that divide the earth; ___________ represent the horizontal lines that divide the earth.

What are Longitude and Latitude?

400

This is the fruit that Furman pushed with his nose for one mile, which tool 22 minutes and 41 seconds.

What is an orange?

400

The variety of plant that monarchs lay their eggs on to produce offspring.

What is milkweed?

400

Something that is excluded and doesn't follow the rule.

What is an exception?

500

The American pilot that flew his plane into the eye of a hurricane. 

Who is Joe Duckworth?

500

The name of the line where time is measured. It is at zero degrees longitude.

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

The exact measurement of the longest ear hair in the world.

What is 7.12 inches. 

500

The three colors of a monarch caterpillar. 

What are white, black, and yellow?

500

These are the five key terms we focus on when reading. 

What are people, places, numbers, dates, and proper nouns?