Science
This is the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
This is the name of the top part of a fraction.
What is the numerator?
Henry Ford used this to help bring the parts to the workers. The Model T was made faster using this, so it didn't cost as much money to make, and more people could afford to buy them.
What is the assembly line?
This is what Garvey's dad was so disappointed he has no interest in doing.
What is sports?
If August could have one wish, this is what it would be.
What is a 'normal face'?
This is the long-term average of weather patterns in a specific region, typically considered over a period of at least 30 years.
What is climate?
This is the name of the bottom part of a fraction.
What is the denominator?
This is how the Shanty Boys often used to carry the logs to sawmills.
What are the River's?
Garvey loved to read science fiction, especially this kind of books.
What is Star Trek?
This is how old Via, August's sister, is.
What is 14?
This is the movement of air, typically on a large scale, driven by differences in air pressure caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun.
What is wind?
This is greater between 3/8 and 7/8.
What is 7/8?
This helps to raise and lower ships between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
What are the Soo Locks?
This is the name of the new friend that Garvey made in Chorus class.
Who is Manny?
This is what was unusual about the nurse in the delivery room.
What is 'she kept on farting'?
This is a scientific tool for measuring temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This fraction comes first on a number line - 1/2 or 1/8.
What is 1/8?
This new mode of transportation in the 19th century made it cheaper to move supplies, so products began to cost less.
What are trains or steam powered locomotives?
This is the talent that Garvey discovered he had.
What is singing?
This is what August's mom said she noticed about him when she saw him for the first time.
What are his 'eyes'?
This person developed the reliable mercury thermometer and temperature scale, which is still used today.
Who is Fahrenheit?
Find the remaining fraction after some slices of pizza have been eaten. Total slices = 8. Slices eaten = 3.
What is 5/8?
In 1843, people in Michigan wanted to get rich quick and it happened by mining this.
What is copper?
This book uses the Japanese word form called "tanka" which means 'short poem'. This is how many lines are in a tanka poem?
What is 5?
This is how many surgeries August had since he was born.
What is 27?