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When and where did the Industrial Revolution start?


It started in Britain around 1750

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What is accretion?

The formation of planets as they orbit around the stars

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Which allows humans to extract more resources from a smaller area, farming or foraging?

farming

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How long ago was the Big Bang?

13.7 or 13.8 billion years ago

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What was the earliest form of life?

Bacteria

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Name at least 2 of the 4 raw materials the Big Bang provided.

Space

Time

Matter

Energy

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What is collective learning?

A process through which knowledge is produced, shared, and passed down through generations.

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Which of these is the heaviest element that dying stars can create? 

Iron, Neon, Silicon, or Carbon

Iron

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How long ago did humans develop agriculture?

10,000 -- 11,000 years ago

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Name one characteristic of space BEFORE stars formed.

Cold

Dark

Empty

Simple

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What were the first steam engines built to do?

To pump water out of coal mines

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What is a supernova?

When a big star collapses in on itself and explodes

300

How many spleens was Rowan born with?

0, 1, 3 or 8

3

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How many layers does the Earth have? Name at least two of them.

It has four layers: crust, mantle, outer core, inner core


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Why did early primates take the [literal] first step toward being human?

To be able to see over tall grass they started standing upright and walking on their hind legs.

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Name one of the two ingredients for new chemical elements to form.

Extremely high temperatures

Aging/dying star

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What is the Anthropocene?

The epoch where humans are the dominant species on Earth.

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Name two disadvantages of farming.

Weaker bones/More time working/you have to change the environment/Farming is hard/War/Famine/Inequality.

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How old is the Earth?

About 4 billion years old

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Why was the egg important to evolution?

Eggs allowed animals to permanently move to land

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What 2 forms did energy take after the Big Bang?

Gravity and electromagentism

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Where do all stars begin and end their lives?

Nebulae

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Which of the following diseases did the Americas introduce to Afro-Eurasia as a result of the Columbian Exchange?

Smallpox, chicken pox, syphilis, malaria, the black death

Syphilis

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Name the 3 things needed for stars to form

Gravity

Lots of matter

Tiny variations in the distribution of matter

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What is the small, specially shaped bone in modern humans that allows us to speak?

The hyloid

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