Ellis Island
What became Ellis Island in 1891?
Become the site of the federal government's new immigration inspection station.
What is an MRI?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Besides California what are the greatest areas of landmass?
Texas and Alaska.
What did Garry spend his days studying?
He spends his days studying the relationship between cars, subways, and trains.
What does sprawling means?
To spread.
What screamed the newspaper headlines about the immigrants?
"Lunatics and Idiots Shipped from Europe" and "The World's Dumping Ground."
What's the MRI function?
How many people call California home?
Over 38 million.
What is this passage mostly about?
How one futurist thinks transportation will change in the coming years.
What does elevating means?
To raise or lift up to a higher physical position.
The system of immigration inspection and regulation at Ellis Island was designed to provide what?
Designed to provide the nation with a "proper sieve" that would separate "desirable" from "undesirable" immigrations.
How did Anne felt after she planted her left foot and turned her body to get the ball?
A sharp pain shot through her left knee and she fell to the ground.
How many miles in San Diego located from Mexico?
About 20 miles from north of Mexico.
Cars require a lot of space in cities. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?
What does intensity means?
the quality of being intense.
How the sifting process at Ellis Island improved throughout the years?
Inspectors and doctors were looking for physical problems such as poor eyesight, bad backs, trachoma, or other potentially contagious diseases.
What does ACL stand for?
Anterior Cruciate Ligament.
What is another city besides NYC that are in the list of most populated cities in the entire country?
Los Angeles.
One problem with electric cars is that they require very strong batteries. Part of the reason the batteries have to be so strong is that cars are so heavy. What solution does Golden propose for this problem?
Build cars out of lighter weight metals so they don't need as many batteries.
What does restriction means?
something that limits, confines, or restricts.
How many immigrants were excluded from entering in the country and had to got back to Europe?
About 2%.
What is the estimated number of high school and college athletes in the U.S. to suffer ACL injuries every year?
The estimated number is 90,000 high school an college students.
How are the streets of San Francisco?
Streets that were built on these hills are very steep and tiring to walk on.
Based on Garry Golden's predictions, how can transportation systems of the future best be described?
High-tech and efficient.
What does rigorous?
showing strictness or sternness.