Artimis II
What do rockets have to defy to get out of earth's atmosphere?
gravity
What is bouyency?
THe upward force of a fluid (liquid or gas) that opposes the weight of an immersed object
What is the TItanic and where was it traveling to and from?
A luxury ship traveling from London to New York
Why do so many people want to climb Mt. Everest and why is it hard to do?
The mountain is so tall that the air is thin starting about halfway up and it is very cold because it is so far from sea level.
Where is Iceland locate? You can look at globe
past the 60th latitude line near the North Pole
What force did the engineers of Artimis II use to pull Artimis II back to earth?
Gravity
What is density?
how tightly or loosely molecules are packed together
" Properties of a type of Matter" were thought to be part of the reason Titanic sank. Which problem on the Titanic was a "properties of matter' problem?
THe rivets were made out of number 3 iron instead of steel as planned or number 4 iron which was the standard of the day.
WHat is the biosphere?
What is the name of the tallest mountain in the world and what continent is it located on Asia? You can look at globe
Mt. Everest, Asia
What did Artimis II have to provide to the astronauts while they were away?
Shelter from the cold of space
Protection from the heat generated by friction
A place to store food and water
A way to get rid of waste ( CO2, waste)
Oxygen to breath
If something is less dense than water does it float or sink?
float-it is buoyant
The crew members watching for icebergs from the Crow's nest did not self-advocate for a tool they needed? What was the tool?
Binoculars
What is the lithosphere?
THe part of earth we walk on and that the ocean rests on-the crust. The part of earth that is made up of tectonic plates.
What is the longest cave system in the world and where is it located?
Mammoth cave in KY
Why do rockets need to have so much fuel to take off?
It is the combustion of gas that creates the pressure/explosion to launch the rocket and defy gravity and inertia
If something is more dense than water it will ________.
sink-it is negatively buoyent
The engineer who designed the Titanic imagined the front end of the boat hitting an iceburg and planned walls that were 3 meters high that could seal off parts of the ship. Why did that not save Titanic?
The cut in the boat was too long and the walls were not high enough so the bottom of the ship flooded despite trying to seal each compartment off
What two systems work together to cause the rain shadow that makes the Gobi Desert?
THe lithosphere and the atmosphere.
Is Mt. Fuji a mountain or a volcano and where is it located?
A volcano, on the Asian/Phillipean plate near Japan
What does inertia mean?
AN object will remain in the same position unless an unbalanced force acts upon it.
The titanic was buoyant. what casued it to become negatively buoyant?
A hole in the hull (bottom) of the boat let water in and then when it was full of water it became negatively buoyant.
The engineer decided 16 lifeboats were enough. Why was this a problem?
Titanic needed 48 life boats to fit everyone. They also did not fill up the life boats they had.
WHat process is ongoing and making Mt. Everest continue to get taller year by year?
uplift of tectonic plates
WHere do we find Yellowstone, supervolcano?
In Wyoming and Montana in the Northwest part of the UNited States.