The Outsiders
Real Science or Science Fiction?
Hispanic Heritage Month
Dilations & Transformations
Declaration of Human Rights
100
This 14-year-old narrator and member of the Greasers loves reading books and watching sunsets.
Who is Ponyboy Curtis?
100
A massive force field of invisible plasma shields Earth's surface from high-energy radiation blasting out from the Sun.
What is Real Science? (Earth's magnetosphere deflects solar wind and cosmic radiation)
100
National Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th and concludes on this date in October.
What is October 15th?
100
In geometry, a dilation is a transformation that changes the size of a figure without changing its overall shape, making the original and new figures have this relationship.
What is similar (or similarity)?
100
Adopted in 1948, this international body headquartered in New York City created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to promote global peace.
What is the United Nations (or UN)?
200
This strict, hard-working older brother gave up a college athletic scholarship to work two jobs and keep his family together.
Who is Darry (Darrel) Curtis?
200
Scientists freeze an entire person solid using liquid nitrogen so they can be woken up intact 200 years in the future.
What is Science Fiction? (Cryonics cannot currently preserve complex human organs without fatal cellular damage)
200
Before being expanded into a full month in 1988, the celebration began in 1968 as a week-long event under this U.S. President.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
The fixed point in the coordinate plane from which a figure expands or shrinks during a dilation is known by this term.
What is the center of dilation?
200
Every person has a fundamental right to this, which you are doing right now to learn and gain knowledge in school.
What is education?
300
This character drives a blue Mustang and is Cherry Valance's boyfriend before Johnny kills him in self-defense at the park fountain.
Who is Bob Sheldon?
300
Using a massive underwater array, researchers send messages across the globe by bouncing sound waves off distinct liquid layers in the ocean.
What is Real Science? (The SOFAR Channel allows low-frequency sound waves to travel thousands of miles underwater)
300
Along with Cesar Chavez, this activist co-founded farmworker unions and fought for labor rights and dignity for farmworkers.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
300
Represented by the variable $k$, this numerical ratio determines how much larger or smaller the image will be compared to the original figure.
What is the scale factor?
300
Article 3 states that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and this state of being safe from harm.
What is security (or personal safety)?
400
Daily Double: S.E. Hinton used her initials instead of her full first name, Susan Eloise, primarily to prevent these people from dismissing the book.
Who are male readers (or male book reviewers)?
400
An entire planetary ecosystem is terraformed by dropping giant ice comets onto its surface to introduce liquid water and thicken its atmosphere.
What is Science Fiction? (While theoretically proposed in space studies, humans do not possess the technology or power to steer comets)
400
September 15th was chosen as the start date because it marks the anniversary of independence for five Latin American nations. This is one of those countries.
What is El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua, or Costa Rica?
400
When the scale factor of a dilation is greater than 1, the transformation results in this specific type of size increase.
What is an enlargement?
400
he document explicitly bans this practice, ensuring no human being can ever be owned or forced to work as property.
What is slavery?
500
While hiding out in the abandoned church at Windrixville, Ponyboy and Johnny pass the time reading this 1860s Civil War novel.
What is Gone with the Wind?
500
Time moves measurably slower for an astronaut floating aboard the International Space Station than for their identical twin standing on Earth.
What is Real Science? (According to Einstein's theory of relativity, high orbital speeds cause slight time dilation relative to Earth's surface)
500
The text highlights trailblazers in law, science, and athletics, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, baseball legend Roberto Clemente, and this pioneer who made history as the first Hispanic woman in space.
Who is Ellen Ochoa? Pictured Here!
500
Because all side lengths are multiplied by the exact same scale factor during a dilation, the corresponding side lengths of the original figure and the dilated image are always this.
What is proportional?
500
Prompted by the atrocities of this major 20th-century global conflict, world leaders came together to ensure such violations would never happen again.
What is World War II?