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At the beginning of most Survivor seasons, 16 contestants or
so embark
on the adventure of a lifetime.
Every week one of the contestants is voted off until only two
(sometimes three) are
left.
At the final Tribal Council, one of these remaining players will be
chosen by a jury
of fellow contestants. The contestant that is chosen will earn
the title of
Ultimate Survivor and
will win a $1,000,000 prize.
Before going to the final Tribal Council, the last few contestants
traditionally remember the contestants that they
outlasted (or outwitted or outplayed).
Having survived until the end of the Fall 2008 NATS 101
semester, and before going on to our own form of final Tribal Council,
we will now remember 14 individuals that played important roles in our
journey.
At the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. What is that in
the
upper right corner, a graph of somekind?
Professor Piccard standing next to the aluminum sphere that
he designed
and had built by a Belgian beer keg manufacturer.
Carefully carrying a mercury barometer up the side of a
mountain.
Galileo standing on top of a tower in Italy. The tower
seems to
be tilted a little bit to one side.
Gas molecules zipping around at hundreds of miles per hour
inside a
sealed container.
Ice is less dense than water; it floats in water.
Nobel prize winners at work in their chemistry laboratory.
An amateur scientist, his address at the Askesian Society
astounded his
colleagues.
A swedish meteorologist.
The bending of light is known as refraction. The amount
of
bending is dependent on the wavelength of light.
Avec deux verres et une bouteille de vin, ces deux hommes font la
fete.
Two houses are destroyed while the others nearby are left
relatively
undamaged.
Tropical rainforest and subtropical desert scenes.
Flying a kite in 1752.
Now
try to
match each of the 14 people above with the appropriate description
below:
(A) Devised a system for identifying and classifying clouds that
is still used, with some small changes, today.
(B) His climate classification system is based on monthly average
temperature and precipitation data or types of native vegetation
(C) This experiment, which proved that air pressure decreases
with increasing altitude, was carried out in France in 1648.
(D) If gravity were the only force present (and it usually isn't)
a feather and a bowling ball dropped from some height above the ground
would fall at the same speed and reach the ground at the same time.
(E) Proved that white light is actually a mixture of violet,
blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
(F) Using a pressurized gondola, Piccard and Paul Kipfer made a
somewhat calamitous trip up into the stratosphere and back.
(G) An object immersed in a fluid experiences an upward bouyant
force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
(H) Understood that it wasn't the fine French wind that made
their heads spin.
(I) Measurements he started in 1958 have continued to the present
day and show about a 15% increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration
(J) Believed that in clouds with water droplets and ice crystals,
all precipitation, liquid or solid, began as ice crystals.
(K) First to warn that stable chlorofluorocarbon molecules would
diffuse upward to the stratosphere where they could react with and
destroy ozone.
(L) Aka Lord Kelvin. Temperature on the scale named after
this Scottish physicist never goes below zero and is a measure of the
average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules in a gas.
(M) Investigating the electricity in thunderstorms which he
believed was the same positive and negative charges he studied in his
laboratory.
(N) Probably the most recognized name in tornado research,
devised a tornado intensity scale, and suggested the existence of
multiple vortices inside some tornadoes.
