Scavenger Hunt Answers

1. A tessellation is a combination of repeated shapes that cover a surface and have no gaps or overlaps when they are repeated. An example of a tessellation is a checkerboard.

2. The cornea.

3. You should see shadows in the intersections of the grid.

4. Epicharmus.

5. Concave and convex.

6. Animals use their camouflage ability (blending into their surroundings) to protect them from their predators.

7. Movie makers can make characters appear to be in places that they really aren't in, and be doing things that they are not doing. It could look like a character was falling off a cliff, when really he/she is only jumping off a small platform.

8. Brightly lit objects appear bigger than they really are because they reflect more light.