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The body of water connected to the English Channel by the Strait of Dover
The strait that links the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean and separates Newfoundland from Cape Breton Island.
The strait that separates the Pillars of Hercules, and periodically was closed off during the Miocene.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
The body of water between Vancouver Island and Washington that gave its name to a tectonic plate.
What is the Strait of Juan de Fuca?
The connector between the Atlantic and Pacific that enables a bypass to Cape Horn.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
A well lubricated Alberta hockey team.
A Canadian basketball team with a mean bite.
An NHL hockey team that sounds like it prefers to slide downhill than skate on ice.
What is the Colorado Avalanche?
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A US baseball team with Moh = 10 dorsal regions.
What are the Arizona Diamondbacks?
A Canadian university sports team named after Mesozoic reptiles.
What are the University of Calgary Dinosaurs?
In 1995 on Jupiter this craft named for a famous scientist made the first measurements of the atmosphere of Jupiter.
The largest of the terrestrial planets and possesses one of the largest satellites in the Solar System.
The planet destined to be explored by the spacecraft Cassini, encircled by its satellite Titan.
The shrouded planet, where the day is as long as the year.
The name of the Martian roving robot, whose name means a wanderer or traveller.
You don't need superpowers to know Kr is the symbol for this gas.
The temperature of this smokeless laboratory heating device is controlled by the amount of air in the tube.
These large molecules are formed by the chemical linking of smaller ones; nylon is an example.
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The group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine.
What are the halogens (or Group VII)?
In this type of bond, two bonded atoms share an electron to form a pair.
The gemstome, abundant in the Baltic, and made famous as the source of dinosaur DNA by Jurassic Park
A gemstone formed by laying down layers of nacre around an irritant in an oyster.
You've got to be careful polishing the windows if you wear this hardest of gems.
The precious mineral sometimes found as the amphibole nephrite, and
called piedra de ijada (colic stone) by the Spanish who found the Incas
using it to cure colic.
The January birthstone, usually red, but also found in the orange, green
and black varieties, and as grossular, uvarovite, and schorlomite.
The sediment with grain size between 0.06 and 2 mm.
A mixture of fine grained sediment, organic material and lots of water.
This word may describe a teenager's bedroom or a soldier's mealhall.
The product of weathering of bedrock, addition of organic residue, and time.
Illite, montmorillonite, or kaolinite.