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EARTH SCIENCE

200

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a map of Wyoming and Montana.) The caldera of a supervolcano that last erupted 640,000 years ago covers much of the 2.2 million acres of this national park'

Yellowstone National Park

400

'This class of rock is made by changes in heat, pressure or shearing to pre-existing rocks'

metamorphic rock

600

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an atomic diagram on the monitor.) Used to date artifacts because it has a half-life of 5,730 years, this isotope has 6 protons and 8 neutrons in its nucleus'

carbon-14

800

'The Mohorovicic discontinuity separates the Earth's crust from this'

the mantle

1000

'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) South America & Africa fit together like puzzle pieces; this theory says they were connected 200 million years ago & have been moving away from each other up to 4 inches a year'

plate tectonics

OWED ON A GRECIAN URN

200

'Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" & "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees'

Homer

400

'"Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!'

Aesop

600

'I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases & my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross?'

Hippocrates

800

'Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history'

Plutarch

1000

'For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! & please take better care of it'

Pericles

PASS THE SALT

200

'Genesis 19 says that this man's wife "looked back from behind"... and she became a pillar of salt"'

Lot

400

'One reason for building this waterway was to transport salt from deposits in Syracuse to the coast'

the Erie Canal

600

'Many chefs prefer this coarse-grained salt named for the fact that it was originally used to meet Jewish dietary rules'

Kosher salt

800

'Bars of salt called amoles were once a basic currency of this country formerly known as Abyssinia'

Ethiopia

1000

'Popular with racers, they cover about 100 square miles in Utah, & in some places the salt is 6 feet thick'

Bonneville Salt Flats

BREAKING THE PHONICS RULES

200

'"C" is generally soft when it comes before "E", but not at the start of this musical instrument'

the cello

400

'English words that end in "int" usually have a short "I" --oops, not this measurement'

a pint

600

'"SH" doesn't sound as usual in this insect that can leap 20 times its length'

grasshopper

800

'This British distinction, like the order of the thistle, includes "th" but not as in thistle'

knighthood

1000

'There's a "PH" but no "F" sound in this type of difficult, tiring battle'

uphill

CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH?

200

'Victoria is the capital of this Pacific coast province'

British Columbia

400

'Halifax, the capital of this province, is the home port of the Canadian Atlantic fleet'

Nova Scotia

600

'Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a bear owned by a WWI soldier from this Manitoba city'

Winnipeg

800

'Charlottetown, the capital of this island province, is named for the wife of King George III'

Prince Edward Island

1000

'Iqaluit, the capital of this territory created in 1999, means "place of fish" in the Inuktitut language'

Nunavut