The Power Of A Seat
The city and state where Rosa Parks boarded the municipal bus on December 1, 1955.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
This biological process allows bull sharks to recycle vital salts and pump out excess water so they can survive in rivers.
What is osmoregulation?
This is the name of the majestic blue heron known throughout the wetlands for his unmatched patience.
Who is Harlon?
This brilliant scientist and cartographer overcame prejudice to create the first complete map of the ocean floors.
Who is Marie Tharp?
Rosa Parks famously clarified that she didn't refuse to move because she was physically tired, but rather because she was "tired of" doing this.
What is giving in?
Bull sharks possess these two internal organs that act like filters to automatically adjust to freshwater.
What are kidneys and glands?
This tiny creature used rapid thinking to convince the hunter to release it back into the shallow waters.
What is a minnow?
Marie inherited her passion for charting land from this family member, who made soil maps for the government.
Who is her father?
This young, relatively unknown minister was chosen to lead the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association during the boycott.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Meaning they sit at the very top of the food chain, bull sharks are classified as this type of predator.
What is an apex predator?
The larger fish moved to this location to escape the blazing heat of the summer sun.
What is the deep, cool mud at the bottom of the pond?
Marie was forbidden from doing field research on these because of an old, unfair maritime superstition.
What are research ships?
To travel to work and school without the municipal buses, roughly 40,000 residents famously did this for 381 days.
What is walked, carpooled, or took private taxis?
This type of natural camouflage describes the bull shark's gray upper body blending perfectly with dark riverbeds.
What is countershading?
This character delivers the final moral of the fable, explaining the heron's foolish choice.
Who is the wise old turtle?
Research ships gathered raw depth data by using this technology, which bounces sound waves off the sea floor.
What is sonar?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially came to an end after this highest judicial body in the United States ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
Scientists have documented bull sharks hanging out in this specific body of freshwater located in Central America.
What is Lake Nicaragua?
Used in paragraph 2 to describe the captured minnow, this word is a synonym for "extremely small."
What is minuscule?
Marie discovered this massive underwater mountain chain split by a giant canyon running down the center of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?