Wednesday, 3/12/03
Warm Up. Copy into notebook.
  1. *polite : insolent :: spin : ___________
  2. *freeze : antifreeze :: name : _________
  3. *"close to seer"  = __________
  4. *"together throw thing" = ____________
  5. advisor : advisee :: antonym : __________
Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.
conjecture, perturb, reciprocate, phoenix, dowry, insolent, adept, bane, surge
  1. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is another way of saying that if someone treats you with respect, you _____________.
  2. Being ___________ is a sign of  lack of respect.
  3. In the U.S., the tradition of the bride's father paying for the wedding is sort of a version of a _________.
  4. (2) __________(ce)* will always ________ a teacher.
  5. Tom Sawyer was very __________ at embroidering reality.
  6. A power __________ fried our computer.
  7. One of the ways to repel a "werewolf" is with wolfs_______, which is supposedly a poison to them.
  8. "Tsze Kung asked, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of behavior for all of one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not __________ such a word?'"  --from the writings of Confucius
  9. A person cannot be convicted on ___________; there must be evidence to back up the accusation.
  10. "Big talk! You're like the blind man who catches sparrows and calls them ___________(es)."
  11. Usually, the only way to become ______ at something is to practice, practice, practice.
  12. ***EXTRA CREDIT: What is the reciprocal of 1/4?
"All Summer in a Day" p107
"Venus is sometimes regarded as Earth's sister planet. In some ways they are very similar:
       -- Venus is only slightly smaller than Earth (95% of Earth's diameter, 80% of Earth's mass). This means you would weigh 80% of what you do on Earth.
       -- Both have few craters indicating relatively young surfaces.
       -- Their densities and chemical compositions are similar.
Because of these similarities, it was thought that below its dense clouds Venus might be very Earthlike and might even have life. But, unfortunately, more detailed study of Venus reveals that in many important ways it is radically different from Earth."

    "The pressure of Venus' atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km -- 2.2 miles -- in Earth's oceans). It is composed mostly of carbon dioxide. There are several layers of clouds many kilometers thick composed of sulfuric acid. These clouds completely obscure our view of the surface. This dense atmosphere produces a run-away greenhouse effect that raises Venus' surface temperature by about 400 degrees to over 740 K (854 F--hot enough to melt lead). Venus' surface is actually hotter than Mercury's despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun."

"Venus probably once had large amounts of water like Earth but it all boiled away. Venus is now quite dry. Earth would have suffered the same fate had it been just a little closer to the Sun. "

"Venus' rotation is somewhat unusual in that it is both very slow (243 Earth days per Venus day, slightly longer than Venus' year) and retrograde." (Extra Credit: What's that mean?)

"Venus is usually visible with the unaided eye. Sometimes (inaccurately) referred to as the "morning star" or the "evening star", it is by far the brightest 'star' in the sky."
 Thanks to nineplanets.org for the information and the pictures.