Andromeda Evolution (Day 0) Quiz

Paulo Araña discovered an unknown object in

• Amazon Forest

• Fairchild AFB

• Brazil

• Portugal

• Piedmont, Arizona

FUNAI is not

• A skeleton crew of intelligence analysts

• National Indian Foundation of Brazil

• A security group that monitors and protects an exclusion zone

• A group of indigenous, uncontacted Amazonian tribes

Marvin housed ______ of real jungle imagery, and over a hundred million simulated jungle imagery.

• Megabytes

• Gigabytes

• Terabytes

• Petabytes

What is Project Eternal Vigilance?

• World-wide monitoring for new outbreaks of the Andromeda Strain

• Air Mobility Command coordinating the refueling of aircraft in air

• A team of eminent scientists that study the exotic, non-biological microparticle, AS-1.

• A pointless waste of resources

Who is known for saying, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Who did General Stern believe was responsible for the new anomaly discovered by Eternal Vigilance?

• China National Space Administration

• Heavenly Palace

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Project Wildfire

What is the phenomenon known as intergenerational discounting?

• Individuals are motivated by immediate private reward rather than by long-term, collective future benefits.

• The ability of humans being able to survive in our billions thanks only to the technological infrastructure we have built to sustain ourselves.

• A new crisis unfolding along the same fault lines of human hubris, miscommunication, and plain bad luck as the first Andromeda incident.

• The effect of payoffs that will take longer than a generation to arrive.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Who was substituted onto the original Project Wildfire team?

​ AS-I is not as lethal to humans is AS-2.​ ​​ (a)  

• TRUE
• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Harold Odhiambo was a field scientist based in Nairobi, Kenya that studied xenogeology, anthropology, biology, and geology. ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• TRUE
• FALSE

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2