Week 30: Scientific Breakthroughs

What disease did Maria del Socorro Flores Gonzalez study?

• Polio

• Invasive amebiasis

• Germs

• Heart disease

What did Gladys West contribute to?

• Mechanical heart invention

• GPS system

• Polio vaccine

• Pasteurized milk

What does GPS stand for?

• Global positioning system

• Geographical place settings

• General processing system

• Global planet system

Who invented a mechanical heart?

• Susmita Bose

• Louis Pasteur

• Domingo Liotta

• Jonas Salk

What did Jonas Salk develop?

• A vaccine for polio

• A mechanical heart

• GPS technology

• A new material for bone implants

What did Louis Pasteur help to understand better?

• How GPS works

• How germs spread

• How to perform heart transplants

• How to diagnose invasive amebiasis

What is one of the uses of the material created by Susmita Bose?

• To develop a new vaccine

• To coat the outside of metal implants

• To treat invasive amebiasis

• To make GPS more accurate

What problem does the mechanical heart solve?

• It helps people navigate

• It treats invasive amebiasis

• It makes milk safer to drink

• It keeps people alive while waiting for a transplant

What does pasteurized milk help to prevent?

• Heart disease

• Bone damage

• Getting lost

• Spread of germs

What technology do most people use for directions?

• GPS

• Paper maps

• Pasteurized milk

• Polio vaccine