Context and question: Another model is the FEELS model developed by Xie Bangxiu and deployed successfully in China. "FEELS" stands for five things in curriculum and education: Flexible-goals, Engaged-learner, Embodied-knowledge, Learning-through-interactions, and Supportive-teacher. It is used for understanding and evaluating educational curriculum under the assumption that the purpose of education is to "help a person become whole." This work is in part the product of cooperation between Chinese government organizations and the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China.
Who established the FEELS model in China?
Answer: Xie Bangxiu
Context and question: Zinc deficiency is crop plants' most common micronutrient deficiency; it is particularly common in high-pH soils. Zinc-deficient soil is cultivated in the cropland of about half of Turkey and India, a third of China, and most of Western Australia, and substantial responses to zinc fertilization have been reported in these areas. Plants that grow in soils that are zinc-deficient are more susceptible to disease. Zinc is primarily added to the soil through the weathering of rocks, but humans have added zinc through fossil fuel combustion, mine waste, phosphate fertilizers, pesticide (zinc phosphide), limestone, manure, sewage sludge, and particles from galvanized surfaces. Excess zinc is toxic to plants, although zinc toxicity is far less widespread.
Excess zinc has what effect on plants?
Answer: toxic
Context and question: The average temperature is 61.4 F (16.3 C), with the monthly daily average ranging from 39.2 F (4.0 C) in January to 83.0 F (28.3 C) in July. Extremes range from 17 F (27 C) on February 12, 1899 to 113 F (45 C) on August 11, 1936 and August 3, 2012; the last sub-zero (F) reading was 5 F (21 C) on February 10, 2011. Temperatures reach 100 F (38 C) on 10.4 days of the year, 90 F (32 C) on nearly 70 days, and fail to rise above freezing on 8.3 days. The city receives about 35.9 inches (91.2 cm) of precipitation annually, of which 8.6 inches (21.8 cm) is snow.
How much precipitation on average falls within the city?
Answer:
35.9 inches