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Who We Are
Where We Are in Space and Time
How the World Works
Sharing the Planet
How We Organize Ourselves
100
This is the document that is like the "Essential Agreements" of our country, stating how things work and what basic rules we need to follow.
What is The Constitution
100
This is the type of star that is running out of fuel and beginning to expand outward from its core.
What is a red giant?
100
Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma.
What are the phases of matter?
100
This is when multiple countries (at least two) agree that they will defend each other and work together if a conflict breaks out.
What is an alliance?
100
The tiny structures inside cells.
What are organelles?
200
This is how you can make a legal change to the constitution.
What is an amendment?
200
This was a capsule that we sent off into space with recordings of human voices saying "hello" in different languages as well as drawings of what we look like, and other artifacts that explain about life on earth.
What is The Voyager One?
200
In this phase of matter, the atoms are closest together and barely move.
What is a solid?
200
This man was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and was assassinated by a Serbian man, leading Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia and setting off a chain of alliances that effectively started WW I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
200
This type of cell has chloroplasts, a cell wall, and large vacuole.
What is a plant cell?
300
This is a type of conflict WITHIN a country in which the fighting is between groups of citizens who disagree about how things should be done.
What is a Civil War?
300
This is a cloud of space dust and gas in which new stars are created.
What is a nebula?
300
In this type of change, the molecular nature of the object has changed and created a new substance. Signs of this type of change can include heat, smell, and a change in color.
What is a chemical change?
300
The Germans put out an advertisement warning Americans not to sail their ships near England because they were doing a blockade against England. The Americans ignored the threat and sailed this ill-fated ship into British wars, leading to its sinking by German submarines.
What is the Lusitania?
300
This type of cell has no nucleus to contain its genetic material.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
400
This man was a president of the United States who desperately wanted to preserve the union of our country; when the Civil War ended, he gave a famous speech in which he stated that all slaves would now be free.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
400
This is star that has collapsed in on itself and continues to pull everything inwards toward its center with its incredibly strong gravity!
What is a black hole?
400
This is phase change from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
400
This was a telegram sent from the Germans to Mexico asking them to join in the fight against the USA and promising to help them take back some off their land from the southwestern Unites States. This telegram was one of the reasons that the United States finally joined WW I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
This is an INHERITED behavior, like geese migrating south in the winter.
What is an instinct?
500
This is the famous speech given by President Abraham Lincoln in which he stated that all slaves would now be free and laid the foundation for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This is the outer, visible layer of a star from which the heat and light radiate.
What is the photosphere?
500
This is a phase change when a gas turns into a liquid.
What is condensation?
500
Because of this treaty following WW I, the Germans were left with very little resources/money and just minimal weaponry and defense, AND they had to give up pieces of their land to neighboring countries. This Treaty is often blamed for causing the Germans to have an aggressive interest in taking back their land and starting WW II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
This is the part of the cell that releases energy.
What is a mitochondria?