Vocabulary Women's History Month

What is the paralympics?

• a series of sporting events where athletes with different disabilities compete against each other. 

• A series of running events where athletes without disabilities compete against each other.

• An international event where athletes with physical impairments compete in a variety of relaxing activities.

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Who is the famous paralympic athlete we learned about?

• Katherine Johnson

• Kadeena Cox

• Michael Phelps

• Usain Bolt

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Who is Alexa Canady?

• He is the first male neurosurgeon.

• She is the first black female neurosurgeon

• She is the first female president.

• She is the first black female Supreme Court Justice.

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What does the phrase "breaking the glass ceiling" mean?

• Women are getting stronger every year and can break glass.

• Women are achieving success in a traditionally male-dominated field.

• Men are getting angry and breaking glass ceilings.

• I don't know

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Trajectory means...

• The speed of an object in motion

• The angle of an object in motion

• the path of an object in space

• a object flying really fast in the sky

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Orbit means

• The gravitational pull of the Sun.

• the path the Earth takes around the Sun.

• The rotation of the Earth.

• The speed of light.

What is segregation?

• Equal rights

• To bring everyone together

• To separate based on people's behavior.

• the act, process, or policy of separating people of different races, sexes, religions, etc.

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Who was John Glenn?

• a U.S. astronaut and politician who, in 1962, became the first to American to orbit the Earth.

• A U.S. military officer and the first person to walk on the moon.

• A U.S. inventor and the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

• A U.S. scientist and the first person to reach the South Pole.

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Who was Alan Shepard?

• A British physicist who developed the atomic bomb.

• an American astronaut. He was the first American to travel in space in 1961 and went to the moon in 1971.

• An American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States.

• An American inventor who developed the light bulb.

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Discrimination is...

• A form of prejudice or bias based on nothing

• A way of showing respect

• An act of kindness

• the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

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