Word of the day for Monday May 12th, 2008
cavil \KAV-uhl\, intransitive verb:
1. To raise trivial or frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
2. To raise trivial objections to.
3. A trivial or frivolous objection.
Insiders with their own strong views, after all, tend to cavil about competing ideas and stories they consider less than comprehensive.
Georgia’s Government
If students forget their books please visit mystatehistory.com and the password is msh11ga
Grading Scheme
Test and Final Exams: 30%
Essays,Projects,etc: 35%
Quizzes: 10%
Classwork/Homework: 10%
Monday: Outline chapter 12
Tuesday: quiz over chapter 12
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Scientist and Inventors Project
Week of May 12th-15th
Monday - Friday(review)Study guide for final
Science final Monday May 19th
Fun Facts about science
10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.
5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long
The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles
The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam
The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world
A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914
The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days
The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut
The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year
Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity
An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow
Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years
40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network
A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day
The largest telescope in the world is currently being constructed in northern Chile. The telescope will utilize four - 26 ft. 8 in. (8.13 meters) mirrors which will gather as much light as a single 52 ft. 6 in. (16 meters) mirror
The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime
The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms
The Atlantic Giant Squid’s eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide
