English II Group 3 Technology and Science Amazon Reaches for the stars

English II

Lab 3

 Group 3

Go to the following link: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/amazon-reaches-for-the-stars/4566917.html

 Part I  Complete with the missing terms.

1.       Amazon is in talks with Chilean officials to store and  ____________________ what is called astrodata -- information gathered by the telescopes. 

2.       If an agreement is reached, the company may be able to use the information to develop _______________ _______________

(AI) tools.

3.       This means the information would be stored over the internet instead of a computer ______________ _______________.

4.       The government has yet to provide details of the  __________________possibilities.

5.       Amazon has been talking with Chile for two years about a possible _______________  ________________.

6.       Smith was involved in email exchanges between

7.        _____________________ and Chilean officials over the past six months. At the time, Smith was with AURA observatory, which leads three of the U.S. financed telescope projects in Chile.

8.       He said the Chilean telescopes “can  ______________________ from the cloud” by easing the difficulty of dealing with information technology.

9.       Many of the world’s most powerful telescopes operate in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the  _______________ _______________on earth.

10.   They said there are ways such data could help with more Earth- _________________ issues.

11.   Pertuze spoke at an event announcing Chile’s aim to build a  __________________ observatory on the cloud.

12.   The Giant Magellan Telescope is expected to give humans a ________________ of the edge of the universe. The project will cost $1 billion to complete.

13.   The huge device will have seven round  _____________________ that will be 24 meters around.

14.   The telescope and its computer will make the Giant Magellan Telescope 10 times as  ____________________________________________

 as the American space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Part II Answer these questions.

1.                  What is Amazon hoping to store and mine?

2.                Why is Northern Chile considered a perfect place to observe the night sky?

3.                When will Chile's Large Synoptic Survey Telescope be fully operational?

4.                How much more accurate will the Giant Magellan Telescope be than the Hubble Space Telescope?

Part III Write a summary of about 150 words of the video.