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What elements are created from the death of low mass stars?
Up to Carbon
Up to Uranium
Up to Iron
Up to Polonium
2
What natural philosopher came up with the idea of elliptical orbits?
Newton
Copernicus
Kepler
Ptolemy
3
What happens when two plates build up enough pressure to cause an earthquake?
Convergence
Subduction
Slip fault
Seismograph
4
What common traits are found in species that belong to the order primates?
Bipedalism and herbivorous diet
Stereoscopic vision and herbivorous diet
Bipedalism and big brains
Stereoscopic vision and big brains
5
Which scientist used the telescope to confirm the heliocentric theory?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Galileo
Aristotle
6
What claim tester means believing in the credibility of your source?
Logic
Authority
Evidence
Intuition
7
What term means the appearance of the planets moving backwards in the sky?
ethereal
retrograde planetary motion
epicycle
protoplanetary disk
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What is an example of a greenhouse gas?
Helium
Oxygen
Methane
Hydrogen
9
What scientist came up with the theory of continental drift?
Hess
Leavitt
Alvarez
Wegener
10
What is the region of the Earth where organisms can live comfortably?
geology
biology
atmosphere
biosphere
11
Which of the following is NOT an example of collective learning?
libraries
the use of tools
knowledge of the structure of the universe
agriculture
12
What are periods of climate change that occur due to the tilt and wobble of Earth?
Machiavellian cycles
Milankovtich cycles
Malthusian cycles
Mushka cycles
13
Which of the following is the broadest division of geologic time?
Era
Eon
Period
Age
14
What is the spinning disk with a central star where accretion takes place?
Accretion
Nuclei
Proplyd
Mitochondria
15
The materials for our Solar System came from what?
Cluster
Moon
Supernova
Dying low mass star
16
Why was Lucy such an important find?
Proved humans first evolved in Africa
Earliest skeleton of the genus Homo
Oldest Homo fossil
Proved humans evolved in Europe
17
What discovery in the 1950s validated the theory of natural selection?
DNA
Proplyds
RNA
Mitochondria
18
Who came up with the theory of natural selection?
Kepler
Newton
Darwin
Voltaire
19
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
Russian Revolution
Columbian Exchange
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Revolution
20
Pick the threshold: variations in density of matter and temps above 10 million C
Solar System and Earth
Stars
New chemical elements
Life
21
What element did Alvarez find that led him to believe the asteroid wiped out the dinos?
iridium
cobalt
uranium
radium
22
What is the largest adaptive radiation ever known, which was after the last Snowball Earth?
Oxygen holocaust
K-T Event
Milankovtich cycle
Cambrian explosion
23
What is the sharing and preserving of information across multiple generations?
Collective learning
Foraging
Complexity
Symbiosis
24
What threshold has the ingredients of powerful brains and symbolic language?
Threshold 6
Threshold 4
Threshold 3
Threshold 5
25
What is accelerating the expansion of the Universe?
Dark energy
Blueshift
Dark matter
Fusion
26
Which of these is NOT part of Darwin's evidence for his theory?
Artificial selection
Finch's beaks
DNA
Fossils
27
When did the stars begin to light up?
100-200 million years after the Big Bang
200 million years ago
13.8 billion years ago
4.5 billion years ago
28
What is the key to collective learning?
Opposable thumbs
Symbolic language
Brains
Vision
29
What mountain range was created when a continental plate and oceanic plate collided?
Andes
Alps
Himalayas
Appalachian
30
Which of the following is NOT part of our evidence for evolution?
DNA sequencing
Modern primate studies
Fossils
Doppler effect
31
Which of the following was NOT part of Hubble's evidence for an expanding Universe?
Cepheid variable stars
Sonar technology
LeMaitre's theory of the primordial atom
Red shift
32
Heliocentric means
Earth-centered
Planetary-centered
Retrograde-centered
Sun-centered
33
What is the 4th threshold of increasing complexity?
New chemical elements
Stars light up
Big Bang
Solar System and Earth
34
What is happening in the core of a star?
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fusion
Degeneration
Quark annihilation
35
What is an organism's ability to self-regulate called?
Adaptation
Purpose
Homeostasis
Metabolism
36
What is the study of elements and the composition of matter?
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Astronomy
37
What mini-threshold is between animals with brains and mammals?
Photosynthesis
Movement from water to land
Multi-celled organisms
Eukaryotes
38
Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?
Oil
Natural gas
Solar
Coal
39
Which of the following did NOT help discover the structure of DNA?
Levitt
Watson
Crick
Franklin
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Which of the following is NOT a claim tester?
Authority
Evidence
Intuition
Legality
41
Which of the following did NOT emerge in the first seconds after the Big Bang?
Iron
Strong nuclear force
Quarks
Gravity
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Where did bipedal humans first evolve?
East Africa
Eastern Europe
South Asia
North America
