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100

This type of rock has volcanic origins, and examples of it are still used to make arrowheads and nether portals.

What is Ignious rock?

100

This type of cell has only 23 total chromosomes in humans and forms as a result of meiosis.

What is a Haploid Cell?

100

This "War to end all wars" lasted 4 years and ended on Armistice Day, Nov. 11; now Veterans Day in America

What is World War 1?

100

This author wrote the alliteratively titled "Kapital," a book outlining a new economic system that would lead to a lukewarm global reception.

Who was Karl Marx?

100

This Greek goddess was the god of the hunt and is currently helping NASA "shoot for the moon" on these aptly named missions.

What are the Artemis Missions?

200

These pieces of china are tricky to stack. Too much movement on the boundries risks causing imperfections such as intrusions, subductions, or convergences 

What are tectonic plates?

200

After the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, this process occurred as plants and animals slowly returned to the surrounding area.

What is Succession?

200

This "Bull Moose" carried a big stick in the Pacific and founded the National Park system.

Who is Teddy Roosevelt?

200

Before this European ruler made it on the Pop charts, he was said to have set off something "great" in 1914.

Who was Franz Ferdinand?

200

This is equal to 26+(3(1))

What is 67?

300

Sedimentary rocks and the La Brea Tar Pit are great places to look for these remains of ancient organisms.

What are fossils?

300

Fossils of Homo luzonensis, floresiensis, and neanderthalensis are ancestors of modern Homo Sapiens and help illustrate this islandhopper's theory.

What is evolution/Natural Selection

300

This wheeled president made a "New Deal" for the United States and eventually led to the adoption of the 22nd Amendment.

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

300

This President helped America "Shoot for the Stars" and tried to break down both physical and metaphoric barriers.

Who was JFK?

300

The Pickerel, Poison Dart, Argentine Horned, and Louisiana middle schoolers are all examples of organisms interested in this verb and acronym

What is LEAP?

400

This Johnny Cash tune had a definite "hot spot" on the Billboard top 100's and stretches from Peru to the Philippines.

What is the Ring of Fire?

400

This noted birdwatcher and tortoise connoisseur wrote his famous novel "The Origin of Species," introducing the theory of evolution to the world.

Who is Darwin?

400

This famous pork-themed vacation spot became popular enough with American tourists that it caused an international crisis.

What is the bay of pigs?

400

BOO! Joseph McCarthy's overreaction to increasing support for social programs, as an attempt to gain power and popularity, caused this widespread panic, which ended in the late 1950s

What was the Red Scare?

400

Culm, halm, haulm, stalk, or thyrsus are all synonyms for part of a plant and this germane acronym.

What is STEM?

500

Someone's to blame for building a city near this unstable or weak junction of tectonic plates.

What is a fault line?

500

Radioactive decay can emit isotopes that cause these, which can create monsters or slightly beneficial adaptations.

What are mutations?

500

This famous "mistake" from a "meme"rable year added half a million square miles to the United States

What is Seward's Folly/ Alaskan Purchase?

500

Singing with Billie Holliday or painting with Jacob Lawrence are some of the things you could do during this 20-year "rebirth," named after the neighborhood where it started.

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

500

Even the most familial of pairs have unique examples of these "digital" markings.

What are Fingerprints?