The imaginary line around which the earth spins
The axis
The process of finding problems within a system
Troubleshooting
The most common fox
The red fox
The spark that initiated The Great War in 1914
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Latin term for a blank slate
Tabla rasa
The property of matter in which an object will float in a gas or a liquid
Buoyancy
This machine weaves cotton into cloth
A loom
The process bats use to navigate and find food in the dark
Echolocation
The trial that pitted religious fundamentalism against science and modernism
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Continuous use of land, intensive use of labor, irrigation and terracing
Aspects of agriculture
The term for water vapor turning back into a liquid
Condensation
The card that allows the computer to display images
The graphics card
A non-native species introduced into a specific area, often by humans
An invasive species
Policy of the government NOT to interfere to regulate businesses
Laissez-faire
The study of how we gain knowledge
Epistemology
This forms when light hits an object and the object stops the light from going further
A shadow
The first example of something, such as a machine or other industrial product, from which all later forms are developed
A prototype
Name 3 flightless birds
Ostrich, emu, rhea
The 3 colonies that the U.S. gained by winning the Spanish American War
The Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam
A person's biological father
Genitor
One of the steps in a food chain or food pyramid
Trophic level
A method of inquiry in artificial intelligence (AI) for determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being
A Turing Test
(Greek) etymology of amphibians
Both kinds of life
During the Gilded Age, the belief that white, wealthy, Anglo-Saxon Americans were biologically superior to other groups.
Social Darwinism
A type of pastoralism or nomadism that involves the seasonal movement of livestock
Transhumance