Wonders Unit 3 Week 4: Big Ideas from Nature

What is the main idea?

• Nature often has the answers to the questions people ask.

• Watching bird wings gave the Wright brothers ideas on how to design airplane wings.

• George de Mestral set out on a walk and ended up creating a new fastener.

• Nature helps us create new things.

What happened because Orville and Wilbur Wright studied birds?

• They got ideas on how to create airplane wings, and they were able to create the first plane that flew.

• They got ideas to create cars.

• They got ideas to create boats.

• They got ideas create trains.

What effect did making the car the same shape as the boxfish have?

• It led to cars looking like fish.

• It led to cars swimming underwater.

• It led to a car that saves gas.

• It led to a car being yellow.

In the "Master Movers" section, it says humans can't travel to Mars. What can travel to Mars?

• Humans

• Robots

• Grasshoppers

• Cars

What problems do the robots have on Mars?

• They sometimes get stuck traveling over dips and bumps.

• They never have any problems on Mars.

• They sometimes go underwater and never come back up.

• They would fly over bumps.

What is the main idea of "Tunnel Makers"?

• An engineer copied the shipworm to build the Thames Tunnel.

• An engineer kept failing when he attempted to drill a tunnel under a river.

• He saw shipworms bored through wood.

• The animal uses a tough shield to drill and then builds a hard tube along the tunnel walls.

What does invention mean?

• something the isn't real

• something only people can use

• something that is created or invented

• something that only kids know about

What does identical mean?

• things the are different

• people

• animals

• things that are exactly the same

What does similar mean?

• things that are different

• things that are alike but not exactly the same

• things that only people have

• things that only animals have

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