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What element did Alvarez find that led him to believe the asteroid wiped out the dinos?
cobalt
radium
iridium
uranium
2
What claim tester means believing in the credibility of your source?
Intuition
Evidence
Authority
Logic
3
Pick the threshold: variations in density of matter and temps above 10 million C
New chemical elements
Life
Stars
Solar System and Earth
4
What is the 4th threshold of increasing complexity?
Stars light up
Big Bang
Solar System and Earth
New chemical elements
5
Which of the following did NOT help discover the structure of DNA?
Levitt
Franklin
Crick
Watson
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Who came up with the theory of natural selection?
Darwin
Voltaire
Newton
Kepler
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What scientist came up with the theory of continental drift?
Alvarez
Wegener
Leavitt
Hess
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What mountain range was created when a continental plate and oceanic plate collided?
Appalachian
Andes
Himalayas
Alps
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When did the stars begin to light up?
200 million years ago
13.8 billion years ago
100-200 million years after the Big Bang
4.5 billion years ago
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Which of the following is NOT a claim tester?
Legality
Intuition
Authority
Evidence
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Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?
Oil
Natural gas
Solar
Coal
12
The materials for our Solar System came from what?
Moon
Cluster
Dying low mass star
Supernova
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What is happening in the core of a star?
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fusion
Quark annihilation
Degeneration
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Which of the following did NOT emerge in the first seconds after the Big Bang?
Iron
Quarks
Strong nuclear force
Gravity
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What is the spinning disk with a central star where accretion takes place?
Proplyd
Mitochondria
Accretion
Nuclei
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What are periods of climate change that occur due to the tilt and wobble of Earth?
Mushka cycles
Milankovtich cycles
Machiavellian cycles
Malthusian cycles
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Heliocentric means
Sun-centered
Earth-centered
Retrograde-centered
Planetary-centered
18
What is the region of the Earth where organisms can live comfortably?
biosphere
geology
atmosphere
biology
19
Which of these is NOT part of Darwin's evidence for his theory?
Fossils
DNA
Artificial selection
Finch's beaks
20
What is an example of a greenhouse gas?
Hydrogen
Helium
Methane
Oxygen
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What is the sharing and preserving of information across multiple generations?
Complexity
Foraging
Collective learning
Symbiosis
22
Which of the following is the broadest division of geologic time?
Era
Age
Eon
Period
23
Which scientist used the telescope to confirm the heliocentric theory?
Galileo
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Copernicus
24
Which of the following was NOT part of Hubble's evidence for an expanding Universe?
LeMaitre's theory of the primordial atom
Sonar technology
Red shift
Cepheid variable stars
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What is the key to collective learning?
Symbolic language
Opposable thumbs
Vision
Brains
26
What is accelerating the expansion of the Universe?
Fusion
Dark energy
Dark matter
Blueshift
27
What is the study of elements and the composition of matter?
Physics
Biology
Astronomy
Chemistry
28
What discovery in the 1950s validated the theory of natural selection?
RNA
Mitochondria
DNA
Proplyds
29
Which of the following is NOT an example of collective learning?
knowledge of the structure of the universe
libraries
agriculture
the use of tools
30
What happens when two plates build up enough pressure to cause an earthquake?
Convergence
Seismograph
Subduction
Slip fault
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What is the largest adaptive radiation ever known, which was after the last Snowball Earth?
K-T Event
Cambrian explosion
Milankovtich cycle
Oxygen holocaust
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What is an organism's ability to self-regulate called?
Metabolism
Adaptation
Homeostasis
Purpose
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What elements are created from the death of low mass stars?
Up to Carbon
Up to Polonium
Up to Iron
Up to Uranium
