Five words

Latent (adjective) - potential 

Macrocosm (noun) - a représentation in large scale 

Obsolescence (noun) - the state of being outdated

Nabob (noun) - a wealthy person who has luxury

Pyrrhic (adjective) - a victory but at a great cost resulting in loss by other means

Five words

Flippant (adjective) - being disrespectful 

Gestation (noun) - conception and development

Intermittent (adjective) - something that comes and goes 

Jurisprudence (noun) - the science of law or a department of law

Kibosh (noun) - the act of halting 

Five words

Abstemious (adjective) - describes someone who restricts themselves to only bare necessities 

Belie (verb) - to disapprove 

Censure (noun) - blame

Dank (adjective) - damp and chilly

Ecclesiastical (ih-Klee-zée-ass-ti-kul) (adjective) - sticking to religious practices and ideas

Five words

ABET : (verb) to encourage or assist a plan or activity.

BABBITT: (noun) a person who clings to narrow minded materialistic ideas

CARTE BLANCHE: (noun) unrestricted power

DISSONANCE: (noun) a harsh combination of sounds 

ECUMENICAL: (adjective) universal

Can you beat my score on these quizzes

Here is the links:

US President Pictures 1:  https://www.triviaplaza.com/us-presidents-pictures-1-quiz/

 US President Pictures 2:  https://www.triviaplaza.com/us-presidents-pictures-2-quiz/

Here are my scores:

US President Pictures 1:  

 US President Pictures 2: 

Good luck!!!!!

My museum visit

It was a boring morning. I suddenly found myself standing in front of the Tellus Museum in Cartersville, GA. I was wearing a white T- shirt with green stripes on it and a plain skirt. I was also wearing brown sandals, the kind that went up all the way to your knees. I was also carrying a flip phone that could roll up into a ball, but somehow it was not working.

I walked a little further until I reached a dinosaur skeleton that was in the middle of the museum. Then from there, I saw a clock that read “time: unknown: Date: unknown”. That was weird, but I did not really care about that and went into the mineral section. Somehow, I was able to open the see-through glass cases. I started touching the minerals. Suddenly out of nowhere, a security guard appeared in front of me. The security guard was carrying two bags that were see-through. One of them was holding mountain climbing gear and the other snorkeling gear which made no sense. He shoved a scroll in my face. The scroll looked like it was purposely made that way. I mean it smelled that way. Yep, I smelled that coffee. He then realized that I opened the case and that I was touching the minerals. Realizing that I was in trouble, I dashed off. He started running after me shouting gibberish. 

The security guard was gaining on me, and so I climbed the dinosaur skeleton. When I got to the top, I looked down and saw a giant tank with fish that surrounded the skeleton. Soon I lost balance and gripped the edge of the tank. I noticed the skeleton starting to morph into a shipwreck. I climbed over the tank and in the process I fully lost my grip. I saw what was like a swarm of people holding a ladder, but it was way too short and soon a trampoline also appeared. My ball cellphone fell out of my hand. Both me and the ball bounced of the trampoline and went all the way up to the roof of the museum. With a large thud of my head and the crash of the phone hitting the roof, I woke up. I realized it was all just a dream and got up to dink a cup of water. 

                                The End

                                              

 

Find a quote and answers to Wednesday’s quiz

Instead of a quiz I am going to a find a quote challenge. Here it is:
https://forms.gle/CCJo3Lzyw5iCNu8S8

Also here the answers to Wednesday’s quiz:
https://fultonk12-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/2000118134_fcstu_org1/EfvEkBOcCH5MkOcOSj2Tv5EByd2tbIUNhrOkTXvG8JqwnA?e=8l0B6s

Good luck,
Hope you get them all correct.

A quote that will bring you light

Today I will share a quote that will bing us all some light.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the                                                    light.

- Aristotle

Hope this quote brightens your day.

My quizz

I have an announcement!
Every Wednesday I will post a academic quiz and the answers of the previous quiz.
Here is the link:
https://forms.gle/SwNHrzhGxsBN5mCDA
Answers will be given next Wednesday.
Good luck!

Welcome to my blog! Let’s talk about soap!

Hi!

So for my first post I will write about the importance of washing your hands with soap because I think people should know more about how soap works. (To help make this easy to understand I will add pictures.)

First to understand you have to imagine being a size of a microbe.

And you have to know that soap has a hydrophilic top that means that each soap particle's top is attracted to water and that soap has a hydrophobic tail that repels water like in the picture below.

When you lather up with soap and water, the particles of soap clump together, the tails trying to face away from the water and the tops trying to face towards the water like in the picture above. Sometimes, these clumps form on dirt, germs or any other unwanted particle on your skin. Then, since the heads are pointing towards the water, the soap and anything that it is bonded to get washed away.

Now you may be asking: Doesn’t soap kill viruses and bacteria? Well, yes. You are half right and this is because soap also destroys their membranes. Membranes are a flexible outer layer which are usually found on bacteria and on some viruses like the many coronaviruses we know of today like the novel Covid 19.

Membranes of viruses and bacteria are similar to soap particles because one end of their particle is hydrophobic and the other end is hydrophilic.

When there is water surrounding the membrane, the soap particle cuts into the membrane and the membrane splits open.  So then the virus can not infect your cells and in the case of bacteria they can not survive with out their membrane.

So next time you go to washing your hands make sure you use soap.

Source: https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/news/howsoapworks/