Thursday, 4/13: HD, Vocab, BOB

Take the night off from Space KBARR.

Study for Tomorrow’s Test!

Let’s Make Right Choices! LOL.

Tomorrow’s Test: Everything! Preview after Period 5.

“Warm Up, 4/13.” ANSWER NOT LETTER.

  1. The tests which we have on Fridays ___ not that difficult if you do your classwork and study.
  2. Jairo, along with his homies, _____ going on a long trip tomorrow.
  3. Neither the llama nor I ____ going to the game tomorrow.
  4. Shelia, but not her brother, ____ working tomorrow.
  5. Commas?  If you don’t already know today we’re going to learn to cut and paste kids!
  6. Commas?  Lloyd the llama author of a best-selling book and renowned rocket scientist was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Poetry.
  7. What is the difference between reasons and evidence?
  8. Have you stopped lying yet?  a) rhetorical question  b) loaded question  c) NOTA
  9. Where are you going?  a) rhetorical question  b) loaded question  c) NOTA
  10. How could I have made such a huge mistake?   a) rhetorical question  b) loaded question  c) NOTA

 

“Vocab, 4/13.” True or False?

  1. Computer chips have to be made to very exacting standards.
  2. Professional cheerleaders must be very vivacious.
  3. If two roads diverged and then converged, it would make an x.
  4. The root of the word lapse means “time.”
  5. There would be no room for being ostentatious in the Community.
  6. If you were indifferent about something, you would give it a thumbs down.
  7. Rapt means about the same thing as transfixed.
  8. The Chief Elder was way more vindictive in the movie.
  9. The level of a lake would be lower after an inundation.
  10. Most people think that 13 is an auspicious number.
  11. The rabbi at Auschwitz told Vladek his number was auspicious.
  12. The root of ostentatious meant money.
  13. The 7 Minutes of Terror video showed how exacting the engineers had to be.
  14. Jonas was vindictive toward the The Giver.
  15. Most of you are rapt in math class.
  16. The prefix of diverge means 2.
  17. The prefix of converge means together.
  18. Jonas was indifferent after he watched the release of the twin.
  19. Bob the Soc was very ostentatious about his rings.
  20. An escaped prisoner might canvass a neighborhood.

 

RELAY?

Correct “Seven Minutes of Terror.”

  1. The video includes a print graphic that states: Mars’ atmosphere is 100 times thinner than Earth’s. This fact helps the viewer to understand that —  a) the atmosphere is not thick enough to slow down the space vehicle  b) the space vehicle will be able to easily penetrate the atmosphere  c) the atmosphere could cause the space vehicle to explode upon entry  d) the space vehicle is not affected by atmospheric conditions
  2. What makes Seven Minutes of Terror different from an informational text passage? a) Contrasting perspectives on the topic are shared.  b) Scientists are quoted directly about a topic. c) Viewers get information using multiple senses.  d) Engineering design challenges are explained precisely.
  3. Label the steps of the spacecraft’s landing in the order in which they happen in the video. The first step will be labeled 1, and the last step will be labeled 5.
    ___  The sky crane maneuver prevents a dust cloud from forming.
    ___  The parachute detaches to prepare for the next step.
    ___  The rocket motors turn on and blast the spacecraft away from the parachute.
    ___  The spacecraft slams into Mars’s atmosphere.
    ___  The parachute opens up to decrease the spacecraft’s speed.
  4.  The purpose of this video is to — a) tell why a space vehicle traveled to another planet    b) describe how engineers solved design challenges on a project  c) persuade viewers to be interested in science and technology   d) explain how difficult and terrifying space travel can be
  5. In the video, one of the scientists explains that successfully landing the space vehicle requires perfect sequence, perfect choreography, perfect timing. What is the meaning of the word choreography in this context?   a) A series of known command     b) A series of planned situations    c) A series of landing attempts   d) A series of rocket blasts
  6. What is the most likely reason that the creators of the video chose the title Seven Minutes of Terror?  a) To warn viewers that the content of the video will be frightening    b) To let viewers know how long the video will take to watch   c) To give viewers a hint as to what the content of the video will be    d) To trick viewers by using a play on words that sounds like a horror film
  7. (2) Which two statements from the video best support the answer to #6?
    • a) So, when we first get word that we’ve touched the top of the atmosphere, the vehicle has been alive—or dead—on the surface for at least seven minutes.
    • b) Because we’ve got literally seven minutes to get from the top of the atmosphere to the surface of Mars . . .
    • c) We slam into the atmosphere and develop so much aerodynamic drag, our heat shield, it heats up and it glows like the surface of the sun. (01:36–01:44)
    • d) During entry, the vehicle is not only slowing down, violently, through the atmosphere, but also we are guiding it, like an airplane, to be able to land in a very narrow, constrained space.
    • e) The radar has to take just the right altitude and velocity measurements at just the right time, or the rest of the landing sequence won’t work.

 

“Let Robots Take to the Stars” p286.

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