Lesson 3 I Wonder Why, I Wonder How
Possible or Impossible?
In ____ movies, amazing things are possible.
But are they actually possible in real ____?
Let Down Your Hair, Rapunzel!
In the animation, Rapunzel must lower her ____ hair to let people in her tower.
But could human hair really hold up a ____?
Surprisingly, yes! A single ____ can hold up 100g and an average head has about 120,000 hairs.
All those hairs ____ hold up a couple of elephants!
With her hair, Rapunzel has the ability to ____ up a person.
But she should wrap her hair around something strong and ____.
If she doesn’t, she will get a very sore ____.
We Scare for Energy
In the animation, monsters scare children to get energy ____ their screams.
Amazingly, their city is ____ by this sound!
But could we ____ produce electricity to light up a city from sound?
____, sound can be changed into electricity.
But it would not be ____ in our everyday activities because the amount is too small.
For example, the sound from a car ____ only produces 50mv.
That is only 1/4400 of the average ____ of electricity in our homes.
So, we would need an ____ amount of screams to light up an entire city.
Up, Up and Away!
The house is lifted and flown by thousands of balloons in the ____.
Could that actually ____?
Let’s say that a house ____ about 50,000kg.
A normal balloon at an amusement park can lift about ____.
So we need about 3,570,000 balloons to lift up the ____.
We also ____ to think about the weight of the balloons themselves and the strings.
Then, we need to add a ____ more thousand balloons.
Now, the biggest ____ is pumping up all those balloons!