Earth Science
The hydrologic cycle involves the transport of water between the land, the sea, and what else?
the atmosphere (sky)
Around 6000 years ago, there were just two major kingdoms along the Nile Valley, called Upper and Lower what?
Egypt
What is the term for an herbivore feeding on grasses and low-growing vegetation?
grazing (grazer)
Most of the third-world countries are located on what continent?
Africa
Aerobic exercises increase the body's need for what?
oxygen
Oceanographically speaking, these are types of what?
* bore, neap, brown, red, diurnal, rip, low, spring, high, semidiunal, mixed
tides
pharaoh
What creature of the Arctic is called "the unicorn of the sea?"
narhwal
In 1908, the games of the fourth modern Olympiad were held in what city that is also the location of the Tower Bridge, Madame Tussauds, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Westminister Abbey?
London
What is the a official language in all of these countries?
* Gabon, Mali, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Monaco, Chad, Canada
French
During most of Earth's history, the climate was warmer than it is today. However, these long periods of milder temperatures have been periodically interrupted by cold periods during which glaciers were abundant at middle latitudes. Name these periods:
Ice ages
Male dolphins are bulls, female dolphins are cows, and young dolphins are called what?
calves
If two different types of mice cannot produce fertile babies, then they do not belong to what same taxonomic level?
species
Name two states adjacent to the Pacific Ocean that each have three votes in the Electoral College
Hawaii, Alaska
In an acute triangle, every angle must be less than how many degrees?
90
While Sacramento and San Francisco are on the North American plate, what plate underlines San Diego and Los Angeles?
Pacific Plate
What city-state was the location for Socrates' trial?
Athens
All animals other than fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals all fit into what broad zoological category?
invertebrate
In what colonial city was Crispus Attucks killed by British soldiers?
Boston
What colony ceded to the British in 1842 was returned to China in 1997?
Hong Kong
These belong to which of the three broad categories of rocks?
* scoria, rhyolite, pegmatite, gabbro, pumice
igneous
The ancient empire of what young king of Macedon spread from Gibraltar to Punjab?
Alexander the Great
Plumology or plumage science is the study of what?
feathers
What European country that was split in 1949 was finally reunited 41 years later?
Germany
If someone knowingly raises false alarms, he is said to be crying what?
wolf