Many scientists believe …………………….as a result of a collision between the newly formed Earth and a large asteroid.
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2. The organ-pipe cactus is _____ in the United States
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Willa Cather,_____, gained recognition for her books concerning the American frontier.
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The average wavelength of visible light is 2,000 times _____ the diameter of an atom.
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_____ ants live in nests, which may be located in the ground, under a rock, or built above ground and may be made of twigs, sand, or gravel.
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6. The banking systems of the world have many similarities, _____ they also differ, sometimes in quite material respects
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7. Learning that takes place in infancy provides the____ for the eventual transformation of a child into an adult
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8. In the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, Jacob Lawrence created many paintings _____ the lives of famous African American activists
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The Centennial Exposition, _____ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876, celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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10. In the dark abyss of the deep sea _____ is produced by luminescent fish
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Classic American novel Moby Dick____ an account of the conflict between human beings and their fate.
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In the metals industry, hydrogen is used to prevent metals from tarnishing while undergoing_____.
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16.The Executive Mansion, constructed in the 1790’s and now popularly called the White House, is oldest public edifice in Washington,D.C
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Inventor Elisha Graves Otis designed the first elevator that it incorporated an automatic brake, which in turn led to the development of the skyscraper.
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Although the term “corrosion” applies mostly to metals and particularly to their reaction to oxygen, all material are subject to surface deterioration.
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19. The chief commercial source of bromine is ocean water, from what the element is extracted by means of chemical replacement by chlorine
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Like Jupiter and Earth, Saturn is flattened at a poles.
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All living things are made up of one or more cells, and each of these cells were produced by an already existing cell.
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It is believed that some dinosaurs were intelligent, ability to perform complex activities, and perhaps even capable of social behavior.
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Unique among bivalves, scallops swim extremely well, propelled by jets of water expelled while snapped the shell shut.
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In the period between 1918 and 1939, various political, economic, and geographic
factors combined in determine the extent to which a country developed civil aviation.
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25. The main attractive at Sequoia National Park is thirty-five groves of giant sequoias, the largest living things in the world
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26. In films, optical printing can be combined with blue-screen photography for produce such special effects as characters seeming to fly through the air
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The developed coutries of the world are using up valuable resources at a rate unprecedented human history.
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An activist for women’s rights, Leonora O’Reilly promoted women’s vocational training besides fought for increasedwages for garment workers.
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Cameras of one type or another have been using for more than a hundred years.
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30. Electricity is the phenomenon associated with positively and negatively particles charged of matter at rest and in motion, either individually or in great numbers
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Air, which it is a mixture of elements oxygen and nitrogen and compounds water and carbon dioxide, also contains small quantities of many other substances.
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32. The planets far from the Sun are so remote from any heat source that their temperatures are thought to be much near absolute zero.
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33. Some claim that vegetarian diets may to be more healthful than a diet that includes meat, since they generally contain less fat and more fiber.