Week 31 Innovation in Alabama

1. Which event initiated the auto industry in Alabama in 1997?

• a. the use of an assembly line

• b. Mercedes-Benz releasing the M-Class

• c. the creation of new highways

• d. the discovery of a new type of tire

2. Who is Mae Jemison?

• a. the inventor of the refrigerator

• b. the first woman to drive a car

• c. the first African American woman in outer space

• d. the first person to use the internet

3. Henry Ford used the assembly line to mass-produce ___________.xx

• a. cars

• b. buildings

• c. space shuttles

• d. the first person to use the internet

4. Which of the following contributes to Space Command?

• a. NASA

• b. SpaceX

• c. Boeing

• d. Air Force

5. Alabama has assembly plants for __________.

• a. Alfa Romero

• b. Porsche

• c. Hyundai

• d. Chevy

6.Scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center developed the __________.

• a. Saturn V rocket

• b. Hall-effect thruster

• c. Resistojet rocket

• d. solar sail

7. When did the first car drive on the moon?

• a. 1969

• b. 1971

• c. 1975

• d. 1978

________is the technology and industry that focuses on aviation and space flight

• aerospace

• astronomy

• genome

• biotechnology

8. Before becoming an astronaut, Mae Jemison __________.

• a. was a radiologist at the Mayo Clinic

• b. was a test pilot at the Marshall Space Flight Center

• c. was a doctor in Sierra Leone and Liberia

• d. was a jet propulsion engineer at NASA

an organism’s full set of DNA

• genomics

• innovating

• genome

• Saturn V Rocket