Find answers to these questions then unscramble the password and write the address below (with unscrambled password) in the Location Bar of your Browser to uncover a secret page!
On the Edge
Paralyzing Polio
1. What does your body produce when a new virus or bacteria enters it?
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Little Green Men
2. Jocelyn Bell detected two strange signals in space that seemed to pulse on and off like a flashing light. Find out how fast the second signal pulsed. How many times would this signal pulse in nine seconds?
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You Try It
Probe the Brain
3. Blink your eyes, throw a ball, bowl a bubble--What part of your brain controls body movements like these?
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Atom Builder
4. A neutron contains ___up quark(s) and __down quark(s).
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Technology at Home
5. You dial up your friend to make plans for the weekend. Early in the century your phone might have looked like this:
Later, you might have talked on this:
Find out when each first appears, How many years are there between these two?
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That’s My Theory
Special guest: ENIAC
6. Which printer is connected to the ENIAC computer?
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Databank
7. Why did the dinosaurs mysteriously die out 65 million years ago? Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, might have an answer. What rare element did they discover in rock and use as evidence for their theory?
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Password
www.pbs.org/aso/___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
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