98686 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What is the name of the fastest-flowing glacier in Greenland?
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Jakobshavn Isbræ
What is the largest glacier in the United States?
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Bering Glacier
What type of glacier forms in a mountain cirque?
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Cirque glacier
What is the name of the glacier that is the source of the Rhône River?
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Rhône Glacier
Which two famous paleontologists were rivals in the 19th-century 'Bone Wars'?
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Cope and Marsh
Which Canadian park contains a rich assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils?
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Dinosaur Provincial Park
Which dinosaur was the first to be mounted for public display?
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Hadrosaurus
Which early dinosaur is known from a mass burial in New Mexico?
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Coelophysis
In which geological period did the first dinosaurs appear?
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Triassic
Which sauropod dinosaur had a wide muzzle and over 500 teeth?
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Nigersaurus
What is the name of the famous fossil showing a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in combat?
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Fighting Dinosaurs
In which Argentine rock formation was the giant dinosaur Argentinosaurus found?
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Huincul Formation
Which dinosaur group includes Tyrannosaurus rex?
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theropods
Which dinosaur is often said to have a brain the size of a walnut?
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Stegosaurus
What is the name of the Cambrian fossil deposit in British Columbia?
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Burgess Shale
Which group of marine reptiles had long necks and four flippers?
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Plesiosaurs
What is the term for a fossil that helps date rock layers?
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Index fossil
What is the scientific name of the hominid fossil 'Lucy'?
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Australopithecus afarensis
Which butterfly species migrates from North Africa to the UK each spring?
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painted lady butterfly
Which salmon species migrates from the Atlantic Ocean to spawn in rivers?
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Atlantic salmon
Which warbler species migrates non-stop from North America to South America over the ocean?
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blackpoll warbler
Which antelope species in South Sudan has a migration of over a million individuals?
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white-eared kob
Which sea turtle species is known for the longest migration, over 2,000 miles to nest?
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leatherback sea turtle
Which seabird migrates over 30,000 miles annually, from New Zealand to the North Pacific?
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sooty shearwater
Which eel species migrates from European rivers to the Sargasso Sea to spawn?
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European eel
Which Pacific salmon species has the longest freshwater migration, up the Yukon River?
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Chinook salmon
Which bird holds the record for the longest non-stop flight during migration?
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Bar-tailed godwit
How many miles does the Arctic tern typically migrate round trip each year?
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About 50,000 miles
What organization officially names Atlantic hurricanes?
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World Meteorological Organization
Which hurricane was the first to be retired from the Atlantic naming list?
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Carol (1954)
What is the meteorological term for a hurricane that strengthens by at least 35 mph in 24 hours?
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Rapid intensification