Google Search Scavenger Hunt - Due August 17

Google Search Scavenger Hunt - Due Friday, August 17
Choose one of the three areas that we worked on last week: airplanes, body measurements, or chromatography and answer the appropriate questions.



Airplanes

1. How do airplanes fly? http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/ames-how-planes-fly-slideshow.html
2. What is Bernoulli’s Principle? http://www.videojug.com/interview/fun-science-demonstrations#what-is-bernoullis-principle
3. How many people can a Boeing 747 hold? http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_400er_prod.html
4. What size is the fuel tank in a Boeing 747? http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/pf/pf_400er_prod.html
5. What size is the fuel tank in a Nissan Altima? http://cars.findthebest.com/q/1394/3249/What-is-the-fuel-capacity-of-a-2013-Nissan-Altima-2-5-S
6. What size is the gas tank in a Chevy Volt? http://gm-volt.com/chevy-volt-faqs/
7. How old can you be to be a pilot in TN? http://nashvilleflightinstructor.com/default.php
8. What is the total estimate cost to learn how to fly a plane in TN? http://nashvilleflightinstructor.com/wst_page4.html



Body Measurement

1. What is a femur?
2. Measure your femur and compare it to your height. Is there a relationship? What is it?
http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/curriculum/bones/pa12pdf/1202D-THO.pdf
3. How many times does your height go around your head? http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/curriculum/bones/pa12pdf/1202D-THO.pdf
4. How many heads tall did the Greeks and Romans think the perfect man was? http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/curriculum/bones/pa12pdf/1202D-THO.pdf
5. Are there other ratios to consider? Do the following activity:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/BodyMeasurements/BodyMeas-AS-MyMeasure.pdf
6. What is the golden ratio? http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~dlnarain/golden/
7. What kinds of things have the golden ratio? http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~dlnarain/golden/activity1.htm
8. Give seven examples of the golden ratio in nature. http://www.goldennumber.net/nature/

Chromatography
1. Name four types of chromatography. http://www.wjec.co.uk/uploads/publications/5403.pdf
2. What is capillary action?
3. What is TLC or Thin Layer Chromatography most commonly used to test? http://misterguch.brinkster.net/identify.html
4. Do the Candy Chromatography activity. Take pictures and attach. http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/homeexpts/candy.htm
5. What is the difference between a mixture and a compound? Find the definition. How does a mixture apply to chromatography?
6. Check this out. http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html We don’t always see the real thing.
7. Things aren’t always as they seem. http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/cardboard_tube_I/
8. Jumping to Conclusions: http://www.exploratorium.edu/brain_explorer/jumping.html

On the airplane video the presenters said the word ‘superfluous’. What does superfluous mean?