Phones

True or False: The first cell phone weighed less than 1 pound.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.4.1

In what country are phone booths often red?

• The U.S. (United States)

• The UK (United Kingdom)

• China

• Mexico

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

How were telegrams sent?

• Large delivery trucks would drive messages cross country

• Through fax machines

• A coded message was sent along wires

• By the use of electronic devices called "pagers"

True or False: Early phones didn't even have numbers.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

What happened if someone talked for a long time on a party line?

• The phone stopped working

• No one could hear what the person was saying

• No one else on the line could make a phone call

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which communication method did people use first?

• Telegraph

• Rotary Phone

• Smoke Signals

• Fax

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CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.3.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

Sound is a type of energy made by--

• acoustics

• melody

• vibration

• electricity

True or False: Sound vibrations can travel long distances on their own.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.4.3

Who is known as the inventor of the telephone?

• Albert Einstein

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Freddy Picklstein

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CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Doug mentioned all these strange ways that people make music EXCEPT--

• dialing buttons on a cell phone

• honking car horns

• pushing buttons on calculators

• hooking computer keyboards together

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1