Lesson 3 I Wonder Why, I Wonder How
Possible or Impossible?
In animation movies, amazing ____ are possible.
But are they actually ____ in real life?
Let Down Your Hair, Rapunzel!
In the animation, Rapunzel must ____ her long hair to let people in her tower.
But could human hair really hold up a ____?
Surprisingly, yes! A single hair can hold up 100g and an average head has ____ 120,000 hairs.
All those hairs could ____ 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 ____ get a very sore neck.
We Scare for Energy
In the animation, monsters scare children to get energy ____ their screams.
____, their city is powered by this sound!
But could we actually produce ____ to light up a city from sound?
Yes, sound can be changed ____ electricity.
But it would not be helpful in our everyday activities ____ the amount is too small.
For example, the sound from a car horn only ____ 50mv.
That is only 1/4400 of the average 220v of electricity in our ____.
So, we would need an unbelievable amount of screams to light up an ____ city.
Up, Up and Away!
The house is lifted and ____ by thousands of balloons in the animation.
Could that actually ____?
Let’s say that a house weighs ____ 50,000kg.
A normal balloon at an amusement park can ____ about 14g.
So we need about ____ balloons to lift up the house.
We also have to ____ about the weight of the balloons themselves and the strings.
Then, we need to add a few more thousand ____.
Now, the ____ challenge is pumping up all those balloons!