Blue Pages - Future of Space, Last Dog, & Neil deGrasse

Which of the following could be seen as the most threatening?

• A T-Rex

• A squeamish mouse

• A gliding squirrel

• A soaring bird

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Finding bones of animals from the past usually means we are digging for what kind of animals?

• Slow ones.

• Living ones.

• Extinct ones.

• Breathing ones.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Define a genetic variation.

• A mutation where all the animals have the same traits.

• A blood line with only blue eyes.

• A mutation where no change has occurred.

• A mutation where the genes varied and a new trait occurred in an animal/human.

What kind of weather is in the dome?

• Hot weather.

• Perfect weather. - no temperature extremes

• Cold weather.

• A mixture of hot & cold weather.

What feeling am I supposed to have for Brock by the end of the story?

• Anger

• Relief

• Hope

• Happiness

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

True or False: The 100-Year Starship program is more concerned about getting enthusiasm and creative ideas about space travel than it is about building and flying the actual spaceship to another planet.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Who is Mae Jemison

• The author of "Future of Space Exploration"

• The head of the 100-Years Starship project & the second interviewee

• An astronaut who's trying to get funding for her trip to Mars

• A scientist working on new tech for exploring the moon

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What does the word 'inclusive' mean?

• To involve everyone

• To exclude everyone

• To walk away from conflict

• To misbehave

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What type of sentence would this be? "The public did not leave space; the public was left out of space."

• Complex

• Compound

• Simple

• Compound-Complex

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What do the words "colonize, planetary, & interstellar" have to do with each other?

• They all don't relate to each other. At all.

• They all relate to planets only.

• They all relate to setting up a colony on the moon.

• They all relate to space exploration/travel.