News Quiz Wk 11
From youngzine
International Space Station Turns ___ !
International Space Station Turns 20!
“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever”, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky once wrote. In his book “Free Space”(1883), he drew illustrations of a spaceship orbiting Earth, complete with humans experiencing weightlessness.
This work laid the foundation stone and motivated the launch of the first space station in human history, Salyut 1, in 1971, and ultimately the birth of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2000.
From (Week 3)
____ won her second U.S. Open title; in each of her seven matches, she wore a mask bearing the name of a victim of alleged police or racist violence in the U.S.
Naomi Osaka
Serena Williams
Sloane Stephens
Venus Williams
Naomi Osaka, While Rallying for Social Justice, Wins U.S. Open Title
“The point is to make people start talking,” said Osaka, who wore masks to the court in each of her seven victories bearing the names of Black people who were victims of violence.
This Sphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form?
.
The cryosphere
Name at least two steps to complete to prepare for an interview
-Thinking of questions
-Organizing questions
-Make sure have pen, note book, audio recorder
Who is Ronak Suchindra?
Ronak taught kids how to code during their summer break. Because of COVID-19 circumstances, they could not gather together, but that did not stop Ronak and he started an online program called Kids Connect. Through this platform, kids can learn from one another and truly connect.
Baby Shark became the most viewed video on YouTube last week, how many views did it take to get the record?
1)704 million
2)7.04 billion
3)704,000
4)740 million
7.04 Billion
Baby Shark has broken the record and become the most viewed YouTube video - ever! Since it was released in 2016 the video has reached 7.04 billion views. It's bad news for Justin Bieber whose song Despacito with Luis Fonsi has been knocked off the top spot.
From Week 2
Automaker Tesla is opening a store in the country of ______, the home country of scientist and namesake Nikola Tesla.
Croatia
Hungary
Austria
Russia
After years of waiting, Tesla is finally expanding to Croatia, the home country of the automaker's namesake, Nikola Tesla. An ethnic Serb, Tesla was born in a village called Smiljan in the Austrian Empire, but it is now located in Croatia.
*Who is Tesla : engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. Though he was famous and respected, he was never able to translate his copious inventions into long-term financial success—unlike his early employer and chief rival, Thomas Edison.(history.com)
This type of lighting storm sparked multiple Wildfires around the Bay Area in Northern California in Mid August.
Dry Lightning Storm
In the Northern California Bay Area, between
A Dry Lightning storm featuring almost 14,000 strikes of lightning started multiple Wildfires.
Burning over 1.7 Million Acres and 100,000(+) to evacuate
Evaporating rain leads to lightning being identified as “Dry”
Over 900 structures have been destroyed
When stating a rebuttal during a debate. How do you want to frame the rebuttal so that you acknowledge your opponent but counter with your position?
In the rebuttal, say….
[”My opponent said…, however,… ”]
Who has recently been confirmed into the Supreme Court?
Amy Coney Barrett
According to recent NASA estimates, there could be as many as ______ potentially habitable Earths out there in the whole Milky Way alone.
1)30
2)300
3)300,000
4)300 million
300 Million
A decade ago, a band of astronomers set out to investigate one of the oldest questions taunting philosophers, scientists, priests, astronomers, mystics and the rest of the human race: How many more Earths are out there, if any? How many far-flung planets exist that could harbor life as we know it?
Their tool was the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009 on a three-and-a-half-year mission to monitor 150,000 stars in a patch of sky in the Milky Way. It looked for tiny dips in starlight caused by an exoplanet passing in front of its home star.
After crunching Kepler’s data for two years, a team of 44 astronomers led by Steve Bryson of NASA Ames has landed on what they say is the definitive answer, at least for now. Their paper has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.
The team calculated that at least one-third, and perhaps as many as 90 percent, of stars similar in mass and brightness to our sun have rocks like Earth in their habitable zones, with the range reflecting the researchers’ confidence in their various methods and assumptions. That is no small bonanza, however you look at it.
From youngzine (Week 5)
Cause of death found for 300 elephants in Botswana?
Bacteria in the water were killing the elephant!
Botswana has around 130,000 elephants, making it the largest elephant population in the entire world.
Throughout the summer, officials found an alarming number of elephant carcasses on the ground. It seemed like the elephants dropped dead on the spot or walked around dizzily before collapsing. Live elephants near these carcasses were also disoriented, but other species in the same area were fine.
Investigators doubted it was poachers because the tusks on the elephants were still there. At first, they also didn't think it was bacteria in the water, because elephants tend to drink from the middle of the pond, while bacteria sticks to the edges. However, wildlife authorities performed tests in various laboratories and found that cyanobacteria were killing the elephants.
This 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake that occurred in the Aegean Sea significantly damaged areas of these two Countries
Greece and Turkey
Name three purposes for debate
Convert conflict into understanding,
Increase our confidence and competence in dealing with difficult situations,
Enhance respectfulness and civility in our public conversations without sacrificing truthfulness,
Express different points of view without becoming polarized
Replace destructive stereotyping of each other with understanding and concern,
Listen so that positive change occurs,
Create innovative inspired solutions!
This self taught artist from Portugal is famous for painting 3D art.
Tropical Storm ___ was heading to Florida and could be the state’s first hurricane this season.
Ans: Greek alphabet ____
H
Eta
ay-tay
A creature from the late ________ period smashed sales records on Oct. 6 in an auction where an anonymous buyer placed a winning bid of $31.8 million to purchase a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton,nicknamed Stan.
Jurassic (쥬라기)
Triassic (트라이아스기)
Cretaceous (백악기)
Paleogene (팔레오기)
This Period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic Era. (The period between 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago, 중생대)
This type of light ray has the power to disinfect surfaces due to this process.
Name the type of light ray and process that occurs to disinfect
Ultra Violet - C Ray
Ionization
What are two styles to write an article based from an interview?
Narrative Style
Literal Style
This Culture created art in the desert in Peru over 2000 years ago.
The Nazca
From Good News Network
_______ ’s 50-Year Mystery About Falling into Black Holes Has Finally Been Solved
If you lurch into the event horizon of a black hole, will you ever come out? According to a series of new calculations which just solved a 50-year old problem even Stephen Hawking couldn’t figure out, the answer is yes.
It’s being described as a landmark calculation—the biggest thing to happen in the field since the work of the famous British physicist established the problem in the first place
From Week 7
From dogo news
Earth-Size "__ Planet" Orbits Its Star In A Speedy Quick 3.14 Days!
Though it has been retired since 2018, the observations made by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope during its decade-long mission continued to allow researchers to identify new worlds in our galaxy. The latest to make headlines is an Earth-sized exoplanet that rotates around its dwarf star in just 3.14 days. The similarity to the close approximation of the mathematical constant pi — the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter — has earned the alien world the nickname "Pi planet."
Why are Glaciers so important to planet Earth?
(glaciers shape the land, provide people many useful resources-most important resource is fresh water, an important indicator of climate change, global warming, melting ice sheet contribute to rising sea levels -> change the ocean ecosystem, ocean currents -> less salt could disturb the gulf stream -> drastically changing the weather …) note at least 3 reasons
So, when glaciers melt too fast (or we can say loss of glaciers) because of global warming what we have to concern about? (fresh water shortage/ irrigation problem- glaciers also irrigate crops ->means it affect our food shortage/ also, make the sea less saline -> affect ecosystem / sea current -> climate change ----> vicious circle)... solved Q2
Name (2) pros and (2) cons about Amazon One
One of the biggest concerns is security as Amazon plans to store the users' palm data on the cloud. This is a risk as hackers can get access to this information unlike Apple's face scan technology that stores the data on your iPhone.
Critics are also concerned that by selling its hardware to other companies, Amazon will now have access to user behavior in non-Amazon stores. And finally, even though it is a contactless scanner, some people might touch the screen which is a concern during the pandemic.
Two part answer:
These types of scientists are working together to track Giant Murder Hornets in this state?
Entomologists
Washington State