Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Earthweek Distractions

I love Earthweek:  A Diary of the Planet.  So even when I'm overwhelmed with work and trying to create a test to run off today for tomorrow, I keep making detours to find out more.  How is yawning related to empathy, for example?  When did we first shoot a chimp out into space?  And on it goes.  Here's the quiz I finally finished in spite of my deviant behavior.  (Somehow the formatting is lost, and I don't have time to recreate it.)




Earthweek:  A Diary of the Planet, Week Ending March 21


Here are the questions I put in an e-mail message to all of you.  Now you can answer them!


1.      1.  What are "invisible" flashes coming from, and who sees these "invisible" things better than we humans do?

a.      a.  They’re coming from melting ice, and dogs see them better than we humans do.
b.   b.   They’re coming from meteorites, and deer see them better than we humans do.
c.    c.   They’re coming from the ultraviolet flashes of power lines, and dozens of mammals can see them better than we humans do.
d.d.      They’re coming from earthquakes in Peru and Chile, and cattle and pigs see them better than we humans do.


2.    2.    Speaking of humans, how do chimps feel about us if they've had good experiences with humans in the past?  

a.      They trust us almost as much as they trust baboons and members of their own species that they don’t know.
b.    They trust us as much as they trust baboons and members of their own species that they don’t know.
c.     They trust us more than they trust baboons and members of their own specie that they don’t know.
d.    They don’t trust us at all in spite of the good experiences they’ve had in the past.



3.    3.    What are three examples Earthweek gives of things we've done to chimps?

a.      We’ve hunted them for their meat.
b.    We’ve blasted them into space. 
c.     We’ve used them for medical research.
d.    We’ve done a, b, and c.


4. The dolphin ice tragedy was caused by…

a.      a whale invading their space
b.    Japanese fishermen hunting them for sale
c.     jagged pack ice trapping them
d.    a cyclone entering their habitat.

For the topics 4-9, write the letter of the place where it occurred. 

5.        Dolphin ice tragedy               
6.         Chimp trust
7.         Fearsome flashes
8.         Hottest spot
9.         Coldest spot

a.       Antarctica
b.       Emory University, SE USA
c.         Newfoundland, Canada
d.        Northern Europe (England, Norway)
e.       Sudan

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