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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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