| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Hardest Mineral? | Diamond | 69%
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| Color of our Sun? | Yellow | 69%
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| Light Color indicating something coming towards you? | Blue | 62%
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| Color of Betelgeuse? | Light Color indicating something going away from you? | Red | 62%
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| Chemical Symbol for Zinc? | Zn | 62%
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| Chemical Symbol for Iron? | Fe | 54%
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| Element being Converted into Helium by the Sun Right now? | Hydrogen | 54%
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| Chemical Symbol for Nickel? | Ni | 54%
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| Softest Mineral? | Talc | 54%
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| Color of Beta Centauri? | Color of Sirius B? | White | 54%
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| Chemical Symbol for Silver? | Ag | 46%
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| Hardness of a copper penny? | 3.5 | 38%
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| Which plate includes most of Africa? | African | 38%
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| What kind of current is the California Current? | Cold | 38%
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| Highest Frequency light waves? | Gamma | 38%
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| Element that primarily makes up the Earth's core? | Iron | 38%
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| Which ocean has the Kuroshio Current? | Which tectonic plate lies mostly beneath the Pacific Ocean? | Pacific | 38%
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| What is the last mineral to form from magma? | Quartz | 38%
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| Lowest Frequency light waves? | Radio | 38%
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| Shape used to represent a cold front? | Triangle | 38%
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| Period that the earliest dinosaurs date back to? | Triassic | 38%
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| Hardness of your fingernail? | 2.5 | 31%
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| Latitude of Niagra Falls? (to the nearest degree) | Latitude of Syracuse? (to the nearest degree) | 43 | 31%
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| What do stars end as? | Black holes | 31%
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| What Direction does the Equatorial Countercurrent flow? | Which direction do polar easterlies blow from? | East | 31%
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| What continent does the Norwegian Current go past? | Europe | 31%
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| What does H stand for on a weather map? | What pressure is near the poles? | What pressure system is found at 30 degrees latitude? | High | 31%
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| What ocean has the Agulhas Current? | Indian | 31%
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| What era is the Jurassic Period a part of? | Mesozoic | 31%
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| What causes rocks to change form deep underground? | Pressure | 31%
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| What type of rock is formed from compacted sediments? | Sedimentary | 31%
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| What process starts the breakdown of rocks into sediments? | Weathering | 31%
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| Latitude of Binghamton? (to the nearest degree) | 42 | 23%
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| Era that humans date back to? | Cenozoic | 23%
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| What type of boundary involves plates colliding? | Convergent | 23%
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| Mineral with a Hardness of 9? | Corundum | 23%
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| Period where the earliest Amphibians started to exist? | Devonian | 23%
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| What type of boundary is marked by two plates moving apart? | Divergent | 23%
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| Where is the troposphere highest in altitude? | Equator | 23%
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| What natural event creates volcanic tuff? | Eruption | 23%
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| Which plate contains the Himalayas? | Eurasian | 23%
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| What process changes rocks due to heat and pressure? | Metamorphism | 23%
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| What plate subducts underneath the South American plate? | Nazca | 23%
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| Daughter decay product of Carbon-14? | Nitrogen-14 | 23%
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| The Cambrian Period is in what era? | Paleozoic | 23%
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| Parent isotope of Argon-40? | Potassium-40 | 23%
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| Earliest stage of a star? | Protostar | 23%
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| What kind of current is the Gulf Stream? | Warm | 23%
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| Eccentricity of Earth's Orbit? | 0.017 | 15%
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| Period of Rotation at the Equator of the sun? (in days) | 27 | 15%
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| Hardness of a glass plate? | 5.5 | 15%
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| What symbol represents calm wind? | Circle | 15%
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| Property of a mineral causing it to break geometricly? | Cleavage | 15%
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| What mineral is in both intermediate and felsic rocks? | Feldspar | 15%
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| In what period did the oldest sauropods start to exist? | Jurassic | 15%
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| Unit which wind speed is calculated in? | Knots | 15%
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| What front is represented by alternating triangles and semicircles? | Occluded | 15%
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| What mineral forms first when magma cools? | Olivine | 15%
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| Period where the first horses and whales appeared? | Paleogene | 15%
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| What cell is closest to the poles? | Polar | 15%
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| Plagioclase changes from calcium to what? | Sodium | 15%
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| What Process forms igneous rocks from magma? | Solidification | 15%
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| Eccentricity of Venus's Orbit? | 0.007 | 8%
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| How many Kilometers thick is Earth's mantle? | 2900 | 8%
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| Longitude of Ronkonkoma? (to the nearest degree) | 73 | 8%
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| Longitude of Mt. Marcy? (to the nearest degree) | Longitude of NYC? (to the nearest degree) | 74 | 8%
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| Longitude of Binghamton? (to the nearest degree) | 76 | 8%
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| Longitude of Buffalo? (to the nearest degree) | 79 | 8%
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| Revolution Period of Mercury? (in days) | 88 | 8%
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| What current flows west of Canada? | Alaska | 8%
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| What does a filled in circle mean for sky cover? | Completely Overcast | 8%
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| Cell between 30 and 60 degrees latitude? | Ferrel | 8%
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| Which cell is between 0 degrees and 30 degrees latitude? | Hadley | 8%
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| Weather condition represented by a triangle on a weather map? | Hail | 8%
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| What is the name of the plate between the Pacific and the North American plates? | JuanDeFuca | 8%
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| What does an empty circle mean for sky cover? | No clouds | 8%
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| What process turns limestone into marble? | Recrystallization | 8%
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| What is produced when rocks are broken down at the surface? | Sediments | 8%
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| Eccentricity of Neptune's orbit? | 0.009 | 0%
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| Eccentricity of Saturn? | 0.054 | 0%
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| Eccentricity of Mercury's Orbit? | 0.206 | 0%
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| Axial tilt of Jupiter? | 3.13 | 0%
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| How deep is Earth's inner core? | 5150 | 0%
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| Half-life of Carbon-14? (in years) | 5730 | 0%
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| Diameter of Mars in Kilometers? | 6792 | 0%
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| Axial tilt of the Sun? | 7.25 | 0%
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| Axial tilt of Uranus? | 97.77 | 0%
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| What changes in the continuous series of Bowen's Reaction? | Composition | 0%
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| What era do the Oldest Rocks in New York State come from? | Mesoproterozoic | 0%
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| Era where the oldest undisputed evidence for life exists? | Paleoarchean | 0%
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| What current flows west of South America? | Peru | 0%
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| Which element has a wavelength of 460? | Silicon | 0%
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