Science news.DIRECTIONS: Read the Science News section on pages 4 to 6. Then, test your knowledge by filling in the letters of the correct answers below. 1. How does a vampire bat vampire bat, name for the blood-drinking bats of the family Desmodontidae, found in the New World tropics. Vampire bats feed exclusively on the blood of living animals and are thus the only true parasites among mammals. manage to find the same individual prey night after night? (A) It tracks down the prey's unique smell. (B) Its fantastic vision allows it to see the prey from far away. (C) It recognizes the sound of the prey's unique breathing pattern. (D) It attaches itself to the prey. 2. Why is feeding on the same prey night after night beneficial to a vampire bat? (A) It takes too much energy to search for new prey. (B) The bat would otherwise need to adjust its supersensitive taste buds taste buds taste npl → Geschmacksknospen pl . (c) The practice helps prevent competition with other vampire bats. (D) The bat is far smaller than its prey. If a prey proves to sleep throughout the feeding, then the bat is more likely to get a nightly night·ly adj. 1. Of or occurring during the night; nocturnal: the cat's nightly prowl. 2. Happening or done every night: the physician's nightly rounds. meal without endangering its life. 3. Compared with their non-active peers, teens who engaged in vigorous exercise vigorous exercise A form of exercise that is intense enough to cause sweating and/or heavy breathing/ and/or ↑ heart rate to near maximum; VE is formally defined as that which requires > 6 METs; there is a graded inverse relationship between total physical scored grades that were approximately -- percent higher in core classes. (A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 20 4. Which of the following sports has the highest percentage of 12- to 17-year-old players? (A) tackle football (B) skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean (C) soccer (D) basketball 5. Seismograms track the motion of energy waves produced during (A) hurricanes. (B) tornadoes. (C) snowstorms. (D) earthquakes. 6. Vicinanza says the human -- is better than the human -- at detecting complex patterns. (A) eye, ear (B) nose, eye (C) ear, eye (D) finger, nose 7. The new marine monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands The Northwestern Hawaiʻian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kaua is about the size of --. (A) Texas (B) Montana (C) Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. (D) Hawaii 8. Which activity will be restricted in the newly protected marine areas off the coast of California? (A) swimming (B) fishing (C) tourism (D) snorkeling 9. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft spacecraft Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere. Since streamlining is not needed in the high vacuum of this environment, a spacecraft's shape is designed according to its mission (see will fly by Venus on October 24 to (A) collect samples of its atmospheric gases. (B) take images and look into the structure of its clouds. (C) see if there is life on the planet. (D) collect minerals from the planet's surface. 10. Which planet is MESSENGER's final destination? (A) Mercury (B) Uranus (C) Venus (D) Jupiter NEWS QUIZ, TE 4 1. c 2. d 3. c 4. d 5. d 6. c 7. b 8. b 9. b10. a |
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