Oct 27 Current Events

Oct 27 Current Events

​Cnn10 from Mon 10/25-26

by Coach Wolfe

​News Mon Oct 25, 2021

​A week of potentially dramatic weather descends on the United States. What appears to be a failed Russian satellite streaks across the night sky. A toy store owner explains how supply chain problems have created uncertainty for her business. And fishermen near a Spanish territory haul in a massive sunfish.

Multiple Choice

Due to the massive wildfires that occurred this year, expected heavy rains are a good thing for California

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The expected heavy rains in California will result in

• putting out all the wildfires

• snow fall and the flow of debris (>30mph)

• causing a Noreaster

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

The atmospheric river is dumping rain and bringing wind to hundreds of square miles of Northern California which makes them fear that what could happen?

• Mudslides

• Flash Floods

• Hurricanes

• Tornado's

Multiple Choice

The process where plants create energy from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide is called:

• Chlorophyll

• change in weather

• Photosynthesis

• sugar

Multiple Choice

___ is what makes leaves green.

• Photosynthesis

• Chlorophyll

• Sunlight

• Sugar

Multiple Choice

A decline in ____ causes leaves to lose their green color

• temperature

• sun

• water/moisture

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

The Sunfish found near Morrocco...

• was 10.5 feet long

• was 9.5 feet wide

• weighed over 4400 lbs

• all of the above

​News Tues Oct 26, 2021

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An apparent military coup in Sudan leads off our show this Tuesday. It's followed by a quick recap of weather-related events across America, from landslides in the West to suspected tornadoes in the Midwest. Finally, we're climbing into the Andes Mountains to see how thousands of potato varieties are preserved.

Multiple Choice

The National Weather Service says several reports of what came in as the system moved across Illinois, Kansas and Missouri?

• Hail

• Tornado

• Rain

• Wind

Multiple Choice

States like Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri will experience

• Hurricanes

• Cyclones

• Winds and hail

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

From New Jersey to where, flood watches are in affect till Tuesday afternoon?

• Rhode Island

• Connecticut

• Massachusetts

• Delaware

Multiple Choice

The rain helped firefighters in California get complete control over which fire that is the second largest one in state history?

• Creek

• Thomas

• Cedar

• Dixie

Multiple Choice

The head of ________ armed forces says, "Independent and fair representative government would take control until a new one is elected in what year?

• Egypt's

• Somali's

• Sudan's

• Iran's

Multiple Choice

There are about how many varieties of native potatoes in the world and most of them are grown in the Andes?

• 5,000

• 400

• 500

• 4,000

Multiple Choice

In what mountain range would you find the world's largest salt flat?

• Andes

• Caucasus

• Himalayas

• Rockies

Multiple Choice

In the foothills of the Central Peruvian Andes lives Esperanza Gabriel, she is a potato what, helping to conserve a personal collection of over 300 ancestral potato varieties?

• Janitor

• Plumber

• Custodian

• Housekeeper

Multiple Choice

Potato custodians have been protecting seeds for how long?

• Centuries

• Year

• A Millennium

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the largest known triceratops skeleton?

• Big Joe

• Big John

• Big James

• Big Mike