THe three religions that date their founding to Abraham
What are Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
100
The 23rd person to fly across the Atlantic. No one remembers the first 22.
Who was Charles Lindbergh
100
The type of fuel made by the sun and plants and buried underground
What is fossil fuel
100
the distance used to measure how far away the stars are
What is a light year
200
An externality is something that is not paid for by the person using it. Pollution is an example of a ________ externality
What is a negative externality
200
This religion has more than a thousand gods.
What is Hindu
200
America got serious about science education when the USSR put this into orbit
What is Sputnik
200
What goes round and round to make electricity
What are magnets
200
Its easier to push an object along the ice than along sandpaper because there is less of this
What is friction
300
Elvis can sing better than his secretary and type faster, too. However, he still benefits from the papers she types because of the law of _________ ____________
What is comparative advantage
300
You eat the body and drink the blood of Jesus at this Catholic Ceremony
What is Mass
300
The only Amendment ever repealed was known for what it didn't allow people to do
What is Prohibition
300
Water is needed to produce this to make a turbine go around and around
What is steam
300
Newton thought it was particles, Huygens and Hertz showed it was waves, but Einstein said it was both
What is light
400
Brazil has an absolute advantage in growing Bananas and making gasoline with sugarcane, but it will still benefit from trading with the United states becuase of the law of _______ _________
What is comparative advantage
400
This Eastern religion has only one book, and Winnie the Pooh popularized it.
What is Taoism
400
The name for the woman who sought to give women the right to vote.
Who were the suffragists
400
Power from the sun is too weak for spacecraft past Mars, the heat from this element powers a thermoelectric coupling to produce electricity.
What is Plutonium
400
An atomic substance decays slowly or quickly, how long it "lives" is measured by this
What is a half-life
500
Cars used to be handcrafted by a few skilled mechanics. Henry Ford decided that one person should do one thing and developed the assembly line lowering the price of cars dramatically. He used this technique.
What is the division of labor
500
In this religion, the highest class is Brahma the Lowest is the Untouchable.
What is Hinduism
500
Many AMericans,but not the Indians, believed that it was the destiny of the U.S to expand all the way to the West Coast, This belief was
What is Manifest Destiny
500
Thomas Edison didn't like this type of current and convinced prison officials to electrocute a condemned man using it.
What is alternating current
500
This animal is neither alive nor dead, until someone opens the box it is in and observes it