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100
These are the four claim testers.
What are intuition, evidence, logic and authority?
100
This concept helps prove the Big Bang Theory by showing that stars moving away from us appear red.
What is redshift?
100
This is the stage a star spends most of its life.
What is main sequence?
100
This was the first eon, when earth was hellish.
What is the Hadean Eon?
100
These are the four characteristics that distinguish living from nonliving things.
What are reproduction, homeostasis, metabolism, and adaptation?
200
These are stories many cultures had that tell of how the earth was created.
What are origin stories?
200
He is a scientist who came up with the geocentric view of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
200
This occurs a star's core runs out of hydrogen, then begins to expand.
What is a supernova?
200
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the atmosphere? (or crust)
200
This is the fifth mini threshold.
What is movement to land?
300
This is a gut feeling.
What is intuition?
300
He was a scientist who came up with the heliocentric view of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
300
This star ends in life as a black hole.
What is a high mass star?
300
This was the eon when oceans and the first life began to form.
What is the Archean Eon?
300
These are the two main concepts of evolution.
What are natural selection and adaptation?
400
This is the idea that both science and faith can reconcile.
What is convergence?
400
These were the first two elements to appear in The Big Bang.
What are hydrogen and helium?
400
This occurs when the heat and density in a star are high enough, and hydrogen turns into helium.
What is fusion?
400
This is what our continents were called when they were all one landmass (all connected).
What is Pangaea?
400
This is the threshold when cells moved to the ocean's surface to get energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
500
This is the idea that science and faith answer different questions.
What is contrast?
500
This is the static heard over a radio is extra energy left over from The Big Bang, which helps to prove the Big Bang Theory.
What is Cosmic Background Radiation?
500
This is an element that is deadly to stars.
What is iron?
500
This is a process in which dust grains and leftover material gather together to form planets.
What is accretion?
500
This is the concept in which variations in genes influence which organisms in a population are best suited to live.
What is natural selection?
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