Just the facts
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When and where did the Industrial Revolution start?
It started in Britain around 1750
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What is accretion?
The formation of planets as they orbit around the stars
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Which allows humans to extract more resources from a smaller area, farming or foraging?
farming
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How long ago was the Big Bang?
13.7 or 13.8 billion years ago
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What was the earliest form of life?
Bacteria
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Name at least 2 of the 4 raw materials the Big Bang provided.
Space
Time
Matter
Energy
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What is collective learning?
A process through which knowledge is produced, shared, and passed down through generations.
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Which of these is the heaviest element that dying stars can create?
Iron, Neon, Silicon, or Carbon
Iron
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How long ago did humans develop agriculture?
10,000 -- 11,000 years ago
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Name one characteristic of space BEFORE stars formed.
Cold
Dark
Empty
Simple
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What were the first steam engines built to do?
To pump water out of coal mines
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What is a supernova?
When a big star collapses in on itself and explodes
How many spleens was Rowan born with?
0, 1, 3 or 8
3
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How many layers does the Earth have? Name at least two of them.
It has four layers: crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
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Why did early primates take the [literal] first step toward being human?
To be able to see over tall grass they started standing upright and walking on their hind legs.
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Name one of the two ingredients for new chemical elements to form.
Extremely high temperatures
Aging/dying star
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What is the Anthropocene?
The epoch where humans are the dominant species on Earth.
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Name two disadvantages of farming.
Weaker bones/More time working/you have to change the environment/Farming is hard/War/Famine/Inequality.
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How old is the Earth?
About 4 billion years old
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Why was the egg important to evolution?
Eggs allowed animals to permanently move to land
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What 2 forms did energy take after the Big Bang?
Gravity and electromagentism
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Where do all stars begin and end their lives?
Nebulae
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Which of the following diseases did the Americas introduce to Afro-Eurasia as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
Smallpox, chicken pox, syphilis, malaria, the black death
Syphilis
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Name the 3 things needed for stars to form
Gravity
Lots of matter
Tiny variations in the distribution of matter
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What is the small, specially shaped bone in modern humans that allows us to speak?
The hyloid