Our Little Earth - May 1, 2009

1. What's happened in South Africa?

Elections

Apartheid

Nelson Mandela died

2. What pandemic are people concerned about right now?

SARS

Swine flu

Bird flu

3. What amazing thing is going on at the Great Wall May 16th, 2009?

Mr. Sadek is going to do a hula dance on it.

Mrs. C. is doing to run the Great Wall Marathon.

6-3 and 6-4 students are going to paint it.

4. Why is the Great Wall in the news?

Some of it was destroyed in the earthquake last year.

New portions of the wall have been discovered.

Tourists have to pay more to climb it.

5. True or False. The Great Wall is the only man-made structure seen from space.

True

False

6. Which marathon was started 112 years ago?

The Great Wall Marathon

The Boston Marathon

The London Marathon

7. What country has had eight presidents in the last 13 years?

Iceland

Ecuador

Zimbabwe

8. What's unusual about the new planet scientists found?

It's the brightest.

It's the lightest.

It's about to explode.

9. What are scientists wroried about in Antarctica?

Global warming

Killer penguins

Too many tourists