Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science
What was Thomas Jefferson's "supreme delight"?
SCIENCE
What kind of cells are made in the spongy tissues of the largest bone, called marrow? Even though they are microscopic, when stacked one on top of another in a single column, the cells from one body would tower 30,000 miles high.
Red blood cells
A narwhal is one of the smallest whales on the planet. True or false?
True (4000 lb and 16 ft compared to blue whale's 400,000 lb and 98 ft).
What animals find shelter under white pine trees, the tallest trees in the forest? Peppermint was once attacked by this animal for chasing it up a tree.
Porcupines (37 quill attack)
Who is on the move, that is an immigrant herself? She is "striding in welcoming the poor, the freedom, the yearning to be free."
"Liberty and freedom from oppression are nothing you get or grant by standing around like some kind of statue. No! These are things that require action. Courage. An unwillingness to rest."
Statue of Liberty - Her Right Foot
Thomas Jefferson says, "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me." he believed that: (1) Questions probed _____ (2) _____ countered opinions (3) ________ challenged assumptions.
Fill in the blanks: Evidence, facts, ideas
Ideas; facts; evidence
The right ventricle pumps blood into the lungs. The left ventricle pumps blood to every cell in the body from the head to the toes. True or false?
True
A narwhal can dive 12-25 times a day and stay underwater for up to 5 minutes. True or false?
False -25 minutes
What is a white pine with large limbs all the way down the trunk called?
Bristlecone Pine tree, Scots Pine tree, Wolf tree, Bull tree
Wolf tree
The mom says to her boys in which book: "Boys, your talent will help you win games, but your intelligence, that will help you win at life."
Crossover
The White House
Ventricles are smaller and not as strong as the atriums. True or false?
False
What do you call the fractures in the ice sheets that allow narwhals to breathe?
Crevasses, moulins, leads, or fissures
Leads
The girl has not seen fishers, but she has seen which family member of fishers? But since the narrator always sees something special when a friend comes along, when she reunites with Peppermint, she finally sees a fisher high in the trees.
Minks
"______ is history. The long walk, the stolen land / strangers in our own world / with unknown food/ we made new recipes / from what we had / ______ is us / _____ is you"
Fry Bread
What type of bias did the French historian, Bufton, show because he already believed something so instead of searching for truth, he was trying to prove what he already believed.
(a) Cognitive bias (b) Confirmation bias (c) Affinity bias (d) Statistical bias
Confirmation bias
In the procedure known as angioplasty, a tiny what is inserted into a blocked blood vessel and opens the way for blood to flow by flattening the plaque build up?
Balloon
What sea mammal is predator to narwhals in addition to what land mammal?
Orca and polar bear
What bird makes one of the narrator's favorite sounds
--- "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?"
The barred owl
Who: "spent her days like this: school, friends, violin, soccer, bike rides, homework, time just melted away...she whispers a promise: 'I will always visit. I will always listen.'"
Angela from Angela's Glacier
Thomas Jefferson didn't own any slaves because he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." True or false?
The giant claw at the end, doesn't belong to a lion, but to what animal?
False - did own slaves
A giant sloth
Your heart is the size of a _____. Doctors trace the heart's electrical impulses using what machines? The sinoatrial node is part of the heart and regulates what: heartbeat, temperature, breathing, or digestion?
Fist; EKG - electrocardiographs; heart beat
What do scientists use to measure how old narwhals are?
Their eyeballs
Acorns
What war is being mentioned here: "It wasn't like WWII, when America had to, like, save the world from Hitler. It was more like Vietnam. It was a war for nothing. And Snik's dad died for nothing. Just like my dad died for nothing when I was little"?
War in the Middle East; Kelsey's dad died in a snowmobile accident