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A Sound of Thunder Movie Questions Answer Key

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1. Does Travis Ryer lead the safaris because he loves to hunt or because he wants to
learn/research about animals DNA?
Learn/Research
2. How are the dinosaurs shot?
With frozen liquid nitrogen guns
3. What safety measures does the company have in place?
The guns wont fire until Travis fires his, and they have a bio-filter to keep
any foreign matter from coming back with the hunters (although Hatton
turned this off to save money).
4. What do the hunters get as a keepsake of their hunt?
A bag with their suit, boots, helmet, and a holo-disk recording of the jump
5. Why did Charles Hatton create Time Safari, Inc.?
MONEY nothing else matters to him
6. Who warned Travis that Time Safari, Inc. would one day ruin the future?
Dr. Rand
7.

Is Eckels the nervous type, as he was portrayed in the story?

Yes

8. Does Eckels seem to be the spoiled rich guy like he was in the story?
No his friend Mr. Middleton is
9. What are the 3 rules of time travel?
1.

Dont change anything.

2.

Dont leave anything behind.

3.

Dont bring anything back.

10. Is the time machine an actual machine that gets transported back to the past (like in the
book)?
No its a particle scrambler that sends you as particle beams to the past.
11. What dinosaur do they hunt?
The Allosaurus
12. How was the dinosaur going to die if it wasnt hunted?
In a volcano eruption after being bogged down in a swamp
13. What are the first 3 signs that something was changed?
1.

Unseasonably warm weather

2.

Beached fish

3.

Abundant plant growth

14. Why did Travis and the others not realize right away that something had been changed?
Because time, and thus the changes to time, runs in waves.
15. What new animals were there?
Reptilian mixed with primate (and later bat pterodactyls)
16. What do the thorns do to a person?
They cause horrible pain, and they make a person hallucinate and go insane.
17. What will happen to all of the people that have been killed in this new future?
They will all be fine as long as Travis can fix the past.
18. What is changed in the last wave?
Humans
19. How is Travis able to prevent this from happening again?
He tells Jenny to get him on the recorder saying the bio-filter was turned off
and to give the disk to him only.
20. Did the above plan work?
Yes