Level: Proficiency / C2
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The annual Wellcome Image Awards celebrate the best in science imaging.
Watch this short video (five minutes) and enjoy some amazing images.
Now answer the following questions:
1) What is the creature in the first image?
2) Why do ticks have to be removed carefully? (00:35 seconds into the video)
3) What does the specialised MRI scan measure? (00:53)
4) How many x-ray images were taken off the jaw? (01:43)
5) How big is the kidney stone? (02:11)
6) What do the purple cells indicate in the cancer image? (02:40)
7) In the lily flower bud, how many egg cells are there? (03:20)
8) What species of bat is shown (04:02)
9) What elements are being measured in the sludge? (04:18)
10) What is the winning image?
Answers below!
ANSWERS
1) A nit (a head louse egg)
2) Some of the feeding parts can remain embedded in the skin
3) The movement of water
4) 4,800
5) 2 mm wide
6) Cell death
7) Six
8) Brown Long-eared bat
9) Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur
10) A scan of a patient with a mechanical heart pump
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''Let nature be your teacher''
William Wordsworth, poet, 1770-1850
''Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift''
Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955
Albert Einstein, physicist, 1879-1955
''... to find the word, or words, by which [an] idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed''
P.M. Roget, lexicographer, 1779-1869
P.M. Roget, lexicographer, 1779-1869
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