Earth Science
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Alaska Vegetation
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Anything Goes
100
This natural phenomenon can be defined as vibrations produced by the breaking of rock.
What is an earthquake?
100
This famous artifact was discovered by accident by a group of soldiers in 1799 and helped to decipher the ancient Egyptian language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
100
This type of line on a map shows an area's elevation, slope and relief.
What is a contour line?
100
Cooper Landing is named after this miner who came from Missouri to find gold in the area in 1884.
Who is Joseph M. Cooper
100
This plant produces berries that kids love to eat and look like the candy Mike and Ikes.
What are watermelon berries.
Streptopus amplexifolius
100
What do the spelling spoilers whisper in our ears?
What is "Spell it with a 'U', spell it with a 'U'."
100
This item also found inside thermometers is the last name of the lead singer from the band Queen.
What is Mercury?
100
What bone is in our head?
What is the skull or cranium.
200
The interior of our planet has a structure that can be divided into this many major layers.
Four. (Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core)
200
Standing 481 feet tall near the town of Giza, this is the largest Egyptian pyramid still standing.
What is the Great Pyramid of Khufu?
200
This North American lake is the second largest in the world.
What is Lake Superior?
200
In 1949, this pet was known for accompanying Andy Anderson, during the building of the Community Hall.
What is his pet goat.
200
Ouch! Don't hide behind this plant if playing hide and seek.
What is devil's club.
200
When writing essays which paragraph should never reveal new information.
What is the conclusion.
200
This popular movie from the year 1988 made (even more) famous the song Banana Boat (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte.
What is Beetlejuice?
200
The data set shows the shoe sizes of ten sixth-grade students. Find the mean, median, mode, and range.
4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 5, 6, 8, 7, 5
Mean: 5.8
Median:5.5
Mode:5
Range: 4
300
Often distinct from the surrounding landscape, this term describes the accumulated rocks and debris that can be found where a glacier has either receded or advanced (moved).
What is a terminal moraine?
300
This ancient game was played by two people and was about the journey to the afterlife.
What is Senet?
300
Water in this river flows north into an alluvial fan.
What is the Nile?
300
This projected was founded on the premise that our community could be made safer for pedestrians and road travelers alike if a walking/biking trail that complemented the Sterling Highway and adjacent neighborhoods were available.
What is a Walkable Community?
300
Harvested in the spring this plant is high in iron, potassium, and vitamins A, B, and C.
What is fiddlehead fern?
300
Haikus are Japanese poetic form poems that are traditionally structured with three lines with these aspects.
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
300
Regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, this artist lost his sight due to glaucoma, becoming completely blind by the age of seven.
Who is Ray Charles.
300
Early civilizations in the Indian subcontinent started along these two major rivers.
What are the Indus and Ganges rivers?
400
This type of seismic wave is the last to arrive and causes the ground to move up, down, and sideways. It typically causes the most destruction.
What is a surface wave?
400
This symbol portrays this Egyptian god and represents protection, healing, and well being.
What is the Eye of Horus.
Wedjat Eye
Horus, the god of sky.
400
In 1916, this was named as the first US National Park, spanning a large area that sits atop an extensive caldera system.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
400
The first school in Cooper Landing was established in 1929 and had five children in attendance. It went by this name.
What is the Riddiford School
400
Each tiny flower develops into a bright red berry, in this common ground cover plant.
What is dwarf dogwood (bunchberry).
Cornus species.
400
The main character in this book is on his way to visit his father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. He is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake and finds himself stranded in the wilderness.
What is Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen.
400
This animal is in the title of a 1972 song by the group America, which includes the following lyric: "In the desert, you can remember your name. Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain."
What is a horse?
400
This popular TV show was based on a group of seven castaways who became stranded after their three hour tour went wrong. They must figure out how to make it with "no phone, no lights, no motor cars, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be."
What is Gilligan's Island?
500
This type of plate boundary is when two tectonic plates move together.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
This god would weigh each person's heart to judge if they were worthy of passing into the afterlife.
Who is Anubis?
500
This US National Park is the lowest and driest place in North America due to being a rain shadow desert.
What is Death Valley National Park?
500
This town icon was nicknamed the "white special" because of his white dog sled team that he used to deliver mail from Cooper Landing to Kenai.
Who is Jack Lean.
500
This plant was the inspiration for the famous school name, Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter series.
What is Hogweed. Also called cow parsnip or wild celery.
500
Name of this comic that has delighted audiences since 1954.
What is Marmaduke, by Brad Anderson.
500
This an Oscar and Grammy-winning composer and conductor has scored over 100 films, including some of cinema's most recognizable scores, such as Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, the first three Harry Potter films and the Star Wars franchise.
Who is John Williams?
500
Also used to described an annual season for livestock management, this word is used to describe the process of pieces of glacial ice breaking off along a shoreline.
What is calving?
600
The rigid tectonic plates slide over this plastic-like layer.
What is the Asthenosphere?
600
This tool was used to lift, move and spread water from one location to another.
What is a shaduf?
600
A map of Texas has a scale of 1 in: 65 mi. The distance from Dallas to San Antonio is 260 mi. What is the distance in inches between these two cities on the map.
What is 4 inches?
600
The Cooper Landing Cemetery was placed on now Bean Creek Road in the 1950's during the construction of the Sterling Highway when this person's grave needed to be moved.
What is Victor Guimbard?
600
This poisonous green plant can be found in moist open woods, low meadows, and stream banks.
What is False Hellebore (Veratrum species)?
600
"All the charms of Sycorax – toads, beetles, bats – light on you!", is a line from this famous Shakespeare play.
What is the Tempest.
600
This noisy instrument was banned from many stadiums and sporting events, including FIFA tournaments, due to causing excessive noise and disrupting communication.
What are vuvuzelas?
600
Tim is 6ft 2 in tall, and his shadow is 4ft 1in long. At the same time a building casts a shadow that is 19ft 10in long. Estimate the height of the building.
What is about 30ft.