Evolution
RACE Exhibit
Math
Place at the Table
Golden Oldies
100
This animal is the common ancestor of all birds today.
What is a dinosaur?
100
This is the place from which all humans originated.
What is Africa?
100
This is the number of degrees in a full circle.
What is 360 degrees?
100
This was where the Ponca Indians lived.
What is Nebraska?
100
This is Paperboy's real name.
What is Victor Vollmer, III?
200
His work with birds showed how species adapted to their environment.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
This is the reason the Holocaust Museum was built in Skokie, IL.
What is the march that neo-Nazis wanted to hold there in the late 1970s?
200
This is a visual representation of the fraction 5/4.
What is ...
200
This chief did not want to move his people away from their ancestral land.
Who is Standing Bear?
200
This person created "The People Speak."
Who is Howard Zinn?
300
His work with pea plants showed the way traits are passed from one generation to the next.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
300
She is a Holocaust survivor who made it out of Auschwitz.
Who is Fritzie Fritshall?
300
The number "pi."
What is 3.14?
300
This man was the general who was supposed to force the Ponca Indians to relocate.
Who is George Crook?
300
This person ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message, but died of exhaustion.
Who is Phidipides?
400
This is the definition of evolution.
What is the process that leads to new species? What is the process that passes on helpful traits to the next generation? What is the process that helps species become more adapted to their environment?
400
This is one of Frederick Douglas's first books.
What is The Claims of the Negro?
400
This is when the numerator is larger than the denominator.
What is an improper fraction?
400
This was the official name of the court case.
What is Standing Bear v. Crook?
400
This means "to win or come out on top."
What is "to prevail"?
500
If a species has two copies of a gene, this is the one that will always "win out."
What is dominant?
500
This event resulted in thousands of Japanese-Americans being rounded up and put in camps.
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
This is another way of expressing 7/5.
What is 1 and 2/5?
500
This was the major important result of the trial that occurred.
What is Native Americans have rights as people?
500
This is the island that Omakayas was found on when she was a baby.
What is Spirit Island?
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