Unit 1 Science Reading
| Guiding Questions
for the Chapter 1
"The Race to Codlandia" |
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SOAR-High Earth System Science
Unit 1 Science Reading
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| Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Written by Mark Kurlansky Published by Penguin Books, New York, NY 1998 |
1. Who are the Basques and where do they live? What
language do they speak?
2. Why were the Basques going across the North Atlantic?
Whom did they tell about their voyages?
3. Who were the first people to travel to North America
and in what year? Who led them?
4. What evidence do we have that Vikings came to North America?
5. How did the Vikings survive in the cold and barren lands
of Greenland and 'Stoneland'?
6. Why was dried and salted Cod so important for many centuries
up until the Twentieth Century?