The 8 Planets
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All About Animals
Algebra
Beastly Expressions
400
This planet shines the brightest in our sky
Venus
400
In 1871 she gave us "Little Men: Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys"
Louisa May Alcott
400
Hedgehogs are often confused with these quilled rodents
Porcupines
400
It's the constant in the equation y = x + 3
3
400
"Happy as a ____ at high tide"
Clam
800
Since it was discovered in 1846, it has completed only one orbit around the Sun
Neptune
800
A posthumous collection of book reviews by this Algonquin wit was published in 1970 as "Constant Reader"
Dorothy Parker
800
Parrots aren't really great talkers; they don't even have vocal chords; their mimicry is actually whistling produced by an organ at the base of this, the windpipe
The trachea
800
In an ordered pair, the first value is the abscissa, the second value is called this
The ordinate
800
"Like water off a ____'s back"
Duck
1200
It's where you'll find the Haviland Crater
Earth
1200
In 1983 those awaiting her 2nd novel made do with "Romance And High Adventure", an essay about Alabama history
Harper Lee
1200
Also called a suricate, this member of the mongoose family stands upright when watching for predators
A meerkat
1200
The commutative law of addition says that x + y is equal to this
y + x
1200
"Poor as a church ____"
Mouse
1600
There a day is twice as long as a year, 4,222 hours to 2,111
Mercury
1600
I'll say this young adult novelist went for the older crowd with 1983's "Smart Women"; then again, maybe I won't
Judy Blume
1600
The name of this Eurasian bird of the crow family also means to cheat or swindle 
A rook
1600
Found on 2 of your keyboard's number keys, they're used in equations as signs of aggregation
Parentheses
1600
"Run with the hare & hunt with the ____s"
Hounds
2000
It has the solar system's deepest canyon
Mars
2000
She introduced medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta in 1990's "Postmortem"
Patricia Cornwell
2000
The 3 green species of this poisonous African snake in the cobra family are small & timid, but the black one is big & mean
A mamba
2000
The general form of this common equation is ax2 + bx + c = 0
A quadratic equation
2000
"Cast pearls before ____"
Swine