• Amelia Earhart designed her own clothes for flying, including a one-piece flight suit that was featured in Vogue magazine. That led to a complete line of Amelia Earhart sportswear for women, including shirts made from parachute silk. Earhart pioneered the idea of activewear “separates” and said she designed for tall women, such as herself, who had trouble finding fashionable clothes to fit them. The earnings from her fashion career went to finance her work in aviation.

• The Crown of Thorns Starfish is a predator that attaches to a coral reef and sucks out the coral’s inner soft tissue. Every once in a while, the COTS population booms, leading to outbreaks that cause large-scale reef damage, such as the one that struck the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa in the 1970s. In 2015, a massive attack threatened reefs in the Maldives. Disaster was mitigated by volunteer divers who removed 7,396 COTS from the reefs by hand.

1. The highest active volcano on earth is Ojos del Salado in which mountain range?

A) Andes

B) Atlas

C) Karakoram

D) Sierra Nevada

2. Starfish are members of the phylum Echinodermata, whose name comes from the Greek words for:

A) Beautiful creature

B) Five legs

C) Sea monster

D) Spiny skin

3. In 1935, Amelia Earhart was a visiting professor in aeronautics at what university?

A) University of Illinois

B) Iowa State

C) Kansas State

D) Purdue

4. Which stinky element contributes most to the unpleasant odor of bad breath?

A) Argon

B) Iron

C) Potassium

D) Sulfur

5. Deep Purple’s classic rock hit “Smoke on the Water” describes events surrounding a rock concert in what country?

A) Belgium

B) France

C) Germany

D) Switzerland

6. One of the world’s first coffee trading centers was the Red Sea port of Al-Makha, or Mocha, in what country?

A) Egypt

B) Jordan

C) Saudi Arabia

D) Yemen

Answers

1) Ojos del Salado in the Andes is the highest active volcano on earth.

2) The phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish, takes its name from the Greek words for “spiny skin.”

3) Amelia Earhart briefly taught aeronautics at Purdue University.

4) Bacteria in your mouth produce sulfur compounds that cause bad breath.

5) “Smoke on the Water” refers to Montreux “on the Lake Geneva shoreline” in Switzerland.

6) Al-Makha, or Mocha, is a port in Yemen.

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