book 5 part 3

What do the 24 solar terms in the Chinese calendar help people do?

• Create stories for festivals
• Make clothing choices
• Predict planting and harvesting times
• Count the days in a month
• Measure distances between cities

How many days are in the Mayan Tzolk’in calendar?

• 300
• 365
• 280
• 260
• 240

What is GenCast designed to predict?

• Earthquakes and tsunamis
• Local government elections
• Patterns in family history
• Changes in climate over 50 years
• Short-term weather events

What natural feature did Aztec astronomers use to track time?

• Shadows on the ocean
• Patterns in bird migration
• Lines in the sand
• Sunrise positions over mountains
• Colors of the sky at night

What special term refers to the 52-year combo of two Mayan calendars?

• Great Year
• Super Cycle
• Grand Rotation
• Time Spiral
• Calendar Round

Who would MOST likely use the Saros cycle today?

• Mountain hikers
• Astronomers tracking eclipses
• Tourists planning vacations
• Artists designing calendars
• Teachers writing poems

When would a Chinese farmer MOST likely refer to the solar terms?

• When buying a home
• When preparing a birthday party
• When planting seasonal crops
• When writing a newspaper
• When organizing a parade

What is MOST likely needed to run a climate model?

• A microscope and notebook
• A small solar panel
• A supercomputer with climate data
• A telescope and calculator
• A globe and thermometer

If you built a clock based on the Metonic cycle, it would MOST likely show:

• How loud thunder is
• How water flows in rivers
• How lunar and solar years connect
• How deep the ocean is
• How far stars are from Earth

If a future society only had the Antikythera Mechanism, what might they learn from it?

• Recipes for cooking
• Rules for farming
• Methods for time travel
• How ancient people predicted space events
• The languages of lost empires