1. What three questions does a seismologist ask?

http://www.extremescience.com/RWhite.htm

2. Why do meteorologists track storms?

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/wthrguys.html

3. What is ornithology?

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/job/ranger.htm

4. What was Alexander Graham Bell interested in that led him to invent the telephone?

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html

5. What did the German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discover that helped Marie Curie?

http://www.aip.org/history/curie/resbr1.htm

6. Inventors find ways to make life easier for people. What are the two names for Jack St. Clair Kilby's invention that started the computer age?

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inv_now.html

7. One hundred years ago an archaeologist sometimes destroyed important objects when they were digging. What three things do archaeologists do today to prevent this?

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001645/history.shtml

(If you are not taken to The Dig page, click on The DIG: Adventures in Archaeology)

8. What did Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment really help him to invent?

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/inventor.html

9. Dr. Eugenie Clark is an ichthyologist. What does she study?

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/womenenc/clark.htm

10. What did Sally Ride accomplish on June 18, 1983?

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html

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